Birmingham News – Archibald: Poof! And the mayor disappears
Birmingham News – Jefferson County judge refuses to dismiss Trinity Medical Center, most defendants from Irondale suit
Birmingham News – Georgia panel says state can’t meet federal deadline to limit Lake Lanier water withdrawals
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Birmingham News – Macon County road to bear name of a native son, an Alabama Guard soldier slain in Iraq
Birmingham News – Crowd chanting her name greets Sarah Palin at Homewood booksigning
Birmingham News – FBI releases its 2008 report on hate crime statistics
Birmingham [...]
Birmingham News – Alabama Arise says decade marked by lost potential for workers in state
Birmingham News – Huckabee appearance packs Books-A-Million at Brookwood Village
Birmingham News – Update: Discussion of gambling laws by Alabama governor and DAs cancelled
Birmingham News – About 1,800 people [...]
Birmingham News – Archibald: The legacy of a fighter, and a gentleman
Birmingham News – U.S. attorney in Alabama’s northern district: Lighter sentences send wrong message
Press-Register – Mobile’s new U.S. attorney confirmed
Press-Register – Officials issue whooping cough alert for Spanish Fort High
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Birmingham News – Judge pushes jobs tax refunds
Birmingham News – Georgia spares no water wars expense: Will pay new lawyer $855 an hour
Birmingham News – Lawyer asks EPA to order end to coal ash shipments to Perry County landfill
Birmingham [...]
Birmingham News – Archibald: Oh my God! Look at them!
Birmingham News – Jeffco claims it owes no refund on job tax
Birmingham News – Birmingham acting Mayor Carole Smitherman says city must become more like successful business
Birmingham News – Jay Grinney: HealthSouth lessons [...]
Birmingham News – Qualifying ends in Birmingham for special mayoral race
Birmingham News – Alabama Department of Corrections to add 112 more officers on Thursday
Birmingham News – Gov. Riley urges business leaders to support U.S. 280 toll road
Birmingham News – Opponents of Lane [...]
Birmingham News – Irondale City Council passes $15 million budget with no cuts in jobs, services
Birmingham News – Dothan business willing to spend big to encourage good school attendance
Birmingham News – Federal disaster declaration approved for farm losses in Alabama, four other states
Birmingham [...]
Birmingham News – Alabama to audit 2 nonprofit groups
Birmingham News – Cloudy skies dim shot at seeing meteor storm early Tuesday
Birmingham News – Federal prosecutor: No reason to grant Larry Langford a new trial
Birmingham News – Alabama Agriculture Department testing propane fueled [...]
Speaking of the Birmingham mayor’s race…
Richard Arrington apparently will not find out if the once-formidable Citizens’ Coalition could propel him into the mayor’s office again, telling the Birmingham News that he will not run. Many public figures are not self-aware enough to know when [...]
Former Birmingham Mayor Richard Arrington is not running again…unless the Draft Arrington rally that was planned for this afternoon changes his mind.
Former Birmingham Mayor Richard Arrington will not run for mayor in the Dec. 8 special election. Arrington tells the Birmingham News that he decided over the weekend not [...]
Birmingham News – Alabama lawmakers split on path to tax threshold ‘fairness’
Birmingham News – U.S. Marshals in operation to track about 450 sex offenders in Montgomery County
Birmingham News – Birmingham charities see rise in volunteers
Press-Register – Federal regulators should re-examine fishing limits
Thanks to anonymous for the steer to Nonprofits formed by three legislators go unaudited in today’s Birmingham News. In brief, State Sen. Roger Bedford, Reps. Mike Millican, D-Hamilton, and William Thigpen, D-Fayette, helped pass legislation diverting tax funds from the State Coal Severance Tax (which the act also sets [...]
Birmingham News – Archibald: A dark day for justice in Alabama
Birmingham News – New Birmingham nonprofit group trains women for political arena
Birmingham News – Federal prosecutors oppose former Gov. Don Siegelman’s appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court
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Birmingham News – Civil Rights Institute honors Lowery
Birmingham News – Rights group protests slow response by Alabama Corrections officials to court order
Birmingham News – Alabama appeals court upholds death sentence for Kenneth Billups in 2003 Birmingham slaying
Birmingham News – Alabama appeals court [...]
Birmingham News – Jefferson County sues Larry Langford, JP Morgan
Birmingham News – Alabama appeals court upholds death sentence for Kenneth Billups in 2003 Birmingham slaying
Birmingham News – Colbert County anti-drug sweep nets 30 arrests
Birmingham News – Three wounded in Montgomery shooting triggered [...]
We've had some discussion on charter schools here and now the Birmingham News has more on the gubernatorial candidates and their stance, mostly supportive, on the issue.
Pres. Obama is quoted as saying "If we're holding charter schools accountable and if we" [...]
Birmingham News – Meteor storm muse behind ‘Stars Fell on Alabama’
Birmingham News – Birmingham salutes Veterans Day
Birmingham News – Alabama soldier wounded at Fort Hood has VIP visitors: the Bushes, then the Obamas
Birmingham News – Study says 10 states face looming budget disasters
Birmingham News – Archibald: Imagine that — clowns, visionaries try to fill Langford’s shoes
Birmingham News – McAdory wins runoff for Alabama House District 56 seat
Birmingham News – Calera finally has six new council members
Birmingham News – Bessemer school board moves to join lawsuit [...]
Birmingham News – Jefferson County’s plan for $50 milion? Restore 40-hour week, set aside $15 million for tax refunds
Birmingham News – Hoover school system to seek election on extending property tax
Birmingham News – Birmingham school board may select president, VP Tuesday
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Birmingham News – Emory Anthony to announce run for mayor Monday
Birmingham News – Hurricane Ida: Baldwin County declares local emergency; schools closed Monday
Birmingham News – Ida’s impact on central Alabama: heavy rainfall likely overnight Monday into Tuesday
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Just a few links to today’s editorials, presented in no particular order, below the fold.
Birmingham News:
Our View: Most Alabamians don’t get to celebrate having the nations’s lowest state and local taxes
Jefferson County needs accountability
Alabama’s two year colleges will embark on another fresh start
Times Daily:
Birmingham News – Archibald: Looking for Mr. (or Ms.) Do-Something-Right
Birmingham News – Police seek identity of child dropped off at Jefferson County Family Court
Birmingham News – U.S. Justice Department probes Alabama court translation practices
Birmingham News – Mobile charity sues Birmingham, seeks damages after [...]
Birmingham News - Alabama soldier thanking God that he survived Thursday’s shooting
Birmingham News - Natalee Holloway added to Alabama Department of Public Safety missing children list
Birmingham News - After a second firing in the Birmingham budget brouhaha, Larry Langford says: Blame me
Birmingham News - [...]
Birmingham News - Archibald: Price of business was high, but the cost higher
Birmingham News - Alabama National Guard solider among 31 wounded in Fort Hood shooting; 12 killed
Press-Register - Angry fishermen plan protests of limits on snapper and other popular Gulf fish
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Birmingham News - Birmingham’s Larry Langford seeks new trial
Birmingham News - Patrick Cooper ready to make second bid for Birmingham mayor
Birmingham News - National study finds Alabama’s poorest pay more income tax than poor of other states
Birmingham News - Abdul Kallon passes easily [...]
Birmingham News - Archibald: Work to do, Smitherman still has
Birmingham News - Albertville mom gets jail after letting teen ride in box atop van
Birmingham News - Birmingham City Council supports Bryce Hospital’s move to Carraway site
Birmingham News - Bessemer DA drops Thursday deadline [...]
Former Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford rejected plea deal before trial, attorney confirms | Breaking News from The Birmingham News – al.com.
Said attorney thinks that FBMLL would have received less than five years under the plea. He’s facing over 800. But Larry swears he’s not guilty. [...] Birmingham News - Alabama school trust fund grows, but picture still not too rosy
Birmingham News - Appeal to state Supreme Court on Walker County bingo could take months, lawyer says
Birmingham News - Video: Acting Mayor Carole Smitherman says council surprised [...]
Don’t miss Natalie Davis’s “First Thoughts on the Race for Birmingham’s Next Mayor” here in the Purple Dot Connection.
The Birmingham News has a good run-down of the situation here.
Sounds like Patrick Cooper is likely to be in. Larry Langford’s conviction will [...]
