By Steve Flowers The first district Congressional race is probably the best race in the state in this year’s March 3 Primary. The winner of the March 31 GOP Primary runoff will go to Congress. The famous 1st District is a Republican congressional seat and has been...

BySteveFlowers Current First District Congressman Bradley Byrne is leaving his safe congressional seat to take a shot at the U.S. Senate this year. The Mobile First Congressional District has had quite a legacy during the last century. Alabama’s First District has...

By Steve Flowers Even though there are more Baptists than Methodists in Alabama, historically Methodists have held more of the prominent political posts in the Heart of Dixie. If one looks closely at these leaders’ lives, a good many of our leaders have been sons of...

By Steve Flowers As the new year begins, so does a Presidential election year. For several decades, in fact for most of the twentieth century, Alabamians were more interested in state and local politics than presidential politics. In fact, from 1901 through the...