By David Sher
Walk down 3rd Avenue North outside the Alabama Theatre.
Look down.
See those stars embedded in rose-colored marble?
Birmingham residents have walked past them a thousand times without a second glance. Continue reading The Idea that Could Bring Excitement Back to Downtown Birmingham
By David Sher
Quite frankly, I am stunned.
Year after year, Alabama has been a punching bag for the press.
What a breath of fresh air.
Canada’s Globe and Mail — widely regarded as Canada’s most influential national publication —sent a reporter to the Deep South to figure out how Alabama had become richer than their country. Continue reading Most prominent Newspaper in Canada Declares Canada is Poorer than Alabama
By Don Erwin
In 2020 I wrote Buffalo Hunting in Alabama, a novel about economic development.
One of the plot lines involved Alabama competing against other states for a giant, blockbuster pharmaceutical plant. In my novel, the Birmingham metro won the project.
Fiction has now become real life. Sort of. I got the state right but the metro wrong. Continue reading Huntsville Didn’t Need UAB to Win Eli Lilly—And That Should Terrify Birmingham
By David Sher
Nick Saban likely never met Frank Stitt on a field or in a kitchen together, but they share something profound: both men fundamentally transformed their domains and elevated Birmingham and Alabama in the eyes of the nation. Continue reading Stitt and Saban fundamentally transformed Alabama
Today’s guest columnist is Richard Friedman.
I hugged her as soon as I saw her.
This friend, a Birmingham Christian woman in her 20’s, had just come back from Israel.
She’d been there during the June war with Iran, sheltering in Jerusalem. Continue reading Birmingham fuels Israel’s strength
Today’s guest columnist is AshLeigh Dunham.
“This never happens.”
For the second time, we did not get any embryos.
Again, we were shuffled out of the back of the clinic for our own privacy. Continue reading Birmingham stands as beacon of hope for IVF
Today’s guest columnist is Bob Stewart.
There are all kinds of ways to define comeback.
Is Birmingham the ComebackTown or the come back town? Continue reading Birmingham, there’s more than one way to mount a comeback
By David Sher
Coach Saban seems to understand what we give up by living in Alabama.
This spring my wife and I attended our grandson’s high school graduation in Atlanta.
We’re so proud because our grandson had been accepted to Georgia Tech.
But then it struck us. Continue reading What we give up by living in Alabama, ask Nick Saban
Today’s guest columnist is Dr, Thomas Reidy.
A blackjack split open Joe Gelders’s head before three men shoved him into a nearby sedan. It was late in the evening on the 26th day of September 1936.
The kidnappers drove an hour and half from Birmingham to a wooded area near Maplesville, where the tormentors stripped Gelders naked but for his underwear, then beat him nearly to death. Continue reading Birmingham, a story of Communism you may not know
Today’s guest columnist is Sam Blakemore.
“Sam, I’m angry at God… that little girl is too precious for Him to do this to her.
She doesn’t deserve this; and I’m mad at God for doing this to her!”
I saw rage in her father’s eyes because Anna’s health was taking a turn for the worse. Continue reading Poignant plea: Parents need marijuana for suffering kids