“I believe Alabama is uniquely positioned to be a leader in the EV industry.” Those were the words of Alabama Governor Kay Ivey delivering the opening remarks at the Drive Electric Alabama EV Summit this past week. She continued, “We need to lean ...
Last month, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall joined 19 other states in a letter to BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, challenging BlackRock’s use of ESG as investment criteria when managing state pension funds. While many people know what ESG stands ...
On September 9th President Joe Biden issued a wide-ranging COVID-19 vaccination mandate that requires all federal employees, contractors, and private sector workers at businesses employing more than 100 people to be fully vaccinated. As much as two-t ...
Towards the end of this legislative session, the State of Alabama passed SB267, which is commonly called Alabama’s vaccine passport ban. The law is pretty short, and it prohibits four things. First, it generally prohibits the government from iss ...
In this episode of the 1819 Podcast, Bishop Jim Lowe, an API Distinguished Fellow and survivor of the 1963 bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church in downtown Birmingham, joins API Public Affairs Officer Scott Stantis and Director of Policy Analysis Pa ...
Speaking up on public issues can be dangerous. There is always going to be some level of criticism when you address a controversial topic. But recently, our civil discourse has deteriorated so badly that speaking up on public issues draws not only c ...
In this episode of the 1819 Podcast, API Public Affairs Officer is joined by Director of Policy Analysis Parker Snider to discuss the strange way Alabama organizes its state public health system. Listen below or by searching '1819' on your favorite p ...
Alabama legislators are taking a look at how their branch has set up our state’s public health system. Currently, Alabama is the only state in the nation where the top health organization is not led by someone appointed by the governor or by a boa ...
Birmingham, Ala. - Today (March 3, 2021), by direct email to the governor’s office and members of the Governor's Coronavirus Task Force, the Alabama Policy Institute (API) formally urged the governor to rescind the existing mask mandate that has been ...
