Today’s guest columnist is Janice Wilson.
There is a popular Facebook group entitled, “You knew you grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, if:”
It’s filled with fond memories and photos of such fun and happy places like Cascade Plunge, Kiddieland, and Joy Young.
Continue reading My childhood memories of Birmingham may be different than yours
Today’s guest columnist is Ryan Hankins.
The purpose of expanding Medicaid is to provide access to medical care for a population of adults who don’t have employer-provided insurance and whose incomes are too low to qualify for a subsidy on the healthcare exchange.
Continue reading Alabama paying the cost of Medicaid expansion but getting none of the benefits
Today’s guest columnist is Chris Nanni.
We see it every day – those hugely expensive MAX buses—trundling down the street carrying one or two passengers.
It looks like another example of our public dollars not being deployed in the most efficient manner. Continue reading Good-bye to empty MAX buses and hello to Birmingham On-Demand
Today’s guest columnist is David Fleming.
Birmingham was founded in 1871 – well before the invention of cars and certainly before they were common.
However, the city’s core was built to support many different modes of transportation, including streetcars, horse and buggies, and trains. Continue reading Time to rid ourselves of outdated one-way streets downtown
Today’s guest columnists are Liz Huntley and Kathryn McDonald.
The weather is warming up, and – admit it – you’re itching for a new dress, or tie, or pair of shoes.
You’ll probably head to the Summit. Or maybe the Galleria. Continue reading A Birmingham gray history story–whites and blacks supporting one another
Today’s guest columnist is Tom Cosby.
They say that Coach Saban has a “War Room” next to his office in Tuscaloosa.
Much like the White House Situation Room that tracks worldwide threats to our nation, in this room Saban reportedly tracks all the top high school athletes nationwide; some even internationally. Continue reading Birmingham needs a Saban-like War Room
Today’s guest columnists are Jefferson County District Attorney Danny Carr and U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona.
Jefferson County has a murder problem.
Our murder problem is so prolifically deadly, that it even eclipses the annual homicide rate for the entire continent of Australia, a nation of more than 25 million people. Continue reading A homicide prevention strategy that will work
Today’s guest columnist is Michael D. Waters.
Less than one month after Fob James was first inaugurated Governor of Alabama in January 1979, I answered my home telephone on a Saturday afternoon and a friendly voice on the other side said: “Hello, is this Mike Waters, the governor’s legal adviser?” Continue reading A startling phone call from an Alabama segregationist governor
Today’s guest columnist is Christopher Tyler Burks.
It seems to me that David Sher has done us all a great service by publishing ComebackTown.com.
While there is excellent coverage of regional issues across our media, this site has become the de facto beat reporter for discussions of regional cooperation in Greater Birmingham. Continue reading Is metro Birmingham ready for regional governance?
Today’s guest columnist is John Whitman.
I’m an entrepreneur and a business academic from the northeast who happily married into Birmingham.
Prior to Birmingham, I spent four years helping to build an entrepreneurial ecosystem in Huntsville to cultivate high-tech, high-growth startups. Continue reading Can Birmingham become an entrepreneurial city?