Three Jefferson County commissioners want to bring about 1,000 county employees back to work, even though they have not yet figured out a way to pay them — a move the county attorney and two commissio
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Jefferson County brings back employees
Three commissioners want to bring employees back, but can they pay them?
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JeffCo's New Coalition is old again
Birmingham needs a new generation of political action, but the 'New' Coalition stopped short of radical change.
I’ll admit something up front: I was rooting for the New Jefferson County Citizens Coalition. Not for the candidates the organization endorsed. Rather, I was hopeful for the promise and potential for
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Birmingham 2010 budget violates city's policy
City continues to spend millions from savings.
In 2007, Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford campaigned with the slogan "Let's do something!" At the time, I thought it was vapid and asinine, but nothing speaks like results. Lately I've been thinking ab
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Council election yields mixed bag of nuts
After they’d taped all the returns to the City Hall walls Tuesday night, not much had changed, but this election cycle is far from over.
The studious workaholic from District 3, Valerie Abbott, be
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Bill Blount calls it quits
There are costs and benefits to smoking beyond what it does to your health. A real nicotine addict can’t spend more than an hour or two indoors without getting the jitters. When an opportunity finally
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New public health scholarship honors the legacy of Billy R. Cox
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“Billy was a leader.”
“His finesse made everyone comfortable, no question.”
“Billy had an extraordinary public relations gift.”
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Taxation with representation just legislation without imagination
As I write this, the Alabama Legislature is busying trying to fix what’s wrong with Jefferson County. By the time you read this, they might have even passed some sort of “solution.” It doesn’t matter.
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A mass in remembrance of Father James Coyle
On Aug. 11, 1921, Father James E. Coyle presided over the marriage between Ruth Stephenson and Pedro Gussman at St. Paul’s Cathedral in downtown Birmingham. Two hours later, the priest was shot by the
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Leapin' Larry counts it down
Last Thursday Al LaPierre stood in the eighth floor courtroom at the federal courthouse downtown to utter one word.
Guilty.
For those of you not keeping up with current events (and judging from
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Leapin' Larry goes for broke
What he didn’t put into slot machines, he spent on clothes and cars. And when he spent all he had, he took more money from friends — friends who happened to be connected to the bond business.
This is Birmingham’s take on The Prince and the Pauper, only our version is not about mistaken identities but rather multiple personalities. You see, in this story, the prince and the pauper are one a
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