By Prioleau Alexander

Editor’s note: This column appeared recently in the Huntsville Real-Time News  coordinated by Doug Martinson. I think it’s important for people in Birmingham to know what ‘s going on with our Alabama neighbor to the North.

Residents of Huntsville, Alabama don’t understand how much they have—and as a result, how much they have to lose.

As a native of Charleston, SC, I grew up in a city far more like Huntsville today than the place I call home. Continue reading Huntsville, for The Love of Everything Holy, Stop Building before It’s Too Late →

By Wayne Rogers

Say “Birmingham BBQ” and the names come rolling out like smoke from a pit: Full Moon. Jim ‘n Nick’s. Bob Sykes. Carlile’s. Golden Rule. Dreamland. SAW’s in all its glorious forms — Juke Joint, Soul Kitchen, and beyond.

Birmingham barbecue means hickory-smoked pork, low and slow, where the smoke does the talking and the sauce just listens. Continue reading The Birmingham BBQ Restaurant That Changed America →

By Allison Black Cornelius

A foreign-owned tech company wants to build a massive 79-acre AI Mega Factory in Oxmoor Valley that consumes as much electricity as 200,000 homes and requires enormous water resources in a county that has suffered drought conditions in 17 of the last 20 years.

They want to put it right in the middle of quiet family neighborhoods, houses of worship, parks, small businesses, nonprofits, schools, and a golf course, where it will generate industrial-scale noise, heat, light, and traffic around the clock. To power it, they would erect 125-foot transmission towers carrying 230,000-volt power lines through residential streets. Continue reading A Foreign Company Wants a 79-Acre AI Factory in Your Neighborhood. Speak Up June 9th →