By Randy Hutcheson
Every day, Birmingham residents generate enormous amounts of monetizable digital exhaust — streaming movies, using GPS, storing files in the cloud, scrolling social media, shopping online, and increasingly asking AI to do tasks for us.
That data has real monetary value. Continue reading Birmingham: The New Plantation Owners Don’t Grow Cotton –They Harvest Data
Editor’s note: I don’t do this often. But when we lost J. Mason Davis on April 24, I knew I had to bring back one of the most remarkable pieces ever published on ComebackTown — because it deserves to be read again, and because the man who wrote it deserves to be remembered.
Read it as a tribute to a man who wasn’t afraid to tell the truth — and as a reminder that honest voices, once gone, leave a silence that’s hard to fill. Continue reading Alabama Tried to get Rid of this Birmingham Man, It Didn’t Work
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
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 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
Today’s guest columnist is Steve Ammons.
Birmingham is bringing back one of its most successful initiatives.
An initiative that delivered great dividends for Birmingham, but was discontinued 15 years ago.
But it’s now being revived and it promises a big payoff. Continue reading Birmingham must seize future opportunities before it’s too late