ComebackTown is published by David Sher to begin a discussion on a better Birmingham.
Today’s guest blogger is Merrill Stewart. If you’d like to be a guest blogger, please click here.
Birmingham is in the middle of a renaissance—and I want the world to know.
It is rewarding to watch the transformation of the city I call home and then share this energy with friends and neighbors who, quite frankly, never saw it coming.
ComebackTown is published by David Sher to begin a discussion on a better Birmingham.
Today’s guest blogger is Darin W. White, Ph.D . If you’d like to be a guest blogger, please click here.
Earlier this year it was announced that Birmingham, AL won the bid to host the 2021 World Games. Winning the bid to host the World Games is a tremendous opportunity for our city in so many different ways.
I told AL.com back in January that “It gives us the opportunity to create a positive and lasting legacy for our great city. It will spark dialogue and cooperation among the dozens of communities that make up Birmingham and allow us to build bridges that cut across racial and socioeconomic lines.”Continue reading The event that will change Birmingham forever→
ComebackTown is published by David Sher to begin a discussion on a better Birmingham.
Today’s guest blogger is Tripp Watson. If you’d like to be a guest blogger, please click here.
I have an ominous suggestion for you: The political process in Birmingham might actually be working.
What if our elected officials are doing exactly what they’re supposed to be doing? What if they are looking out for the people that they represent and passing laws that best embody those interests? Continue reading Political process in Birmingham actually working→
There’s no doubt I feel a certain amount of envy —probably because I grew up in the ‘50’s when Birmingham and Atlanta were about the same size. I have fond memories of my dad taking me to Rickwood Field to root for the Birmingham Barons when we played the evil Atlanta Crackers in Southern League baseball. Continue reading Atlanta more screwed up than Birmingham→
I’m currently binge-watching The Walking Dead.”—the TV series about a small band of survivors struggling to live day to day in an apocalyptic world overrun by flesh-eating zombies.
I recently wrote a piece, “Birmingham punished for being in Alabama,” where I pointed out that job growth in Birmingham and around the state has been relatively flat while other cities in the South are flourishing.
Our Birmingham-Hoover seven county metropolitan area has fewer people working now than we did at the beginning of the recession.
ComebackTown is published by David Sher to begin a discussion on a better Birmingham.
