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2008

January

Kenyan Student Reaction

February

Alabama Tornado
Parliament House checks out

March

Alabama Appalachian Trail
ASO Bankruptcy Lessons
Beer Brawl
Cave 9
Fee or Flee
Loss of Arts Funding
NonProfit Management
On The Line: Funding Arts
Public arts funding
Sister Helen Prejean
Sizwe's Test

April

Baseball's Black History
Childcare in Birmingham
College Fight Songs
High School Drop Out Rates
Marriage and Immigration
Science of Stuttering
SEC Charges Mayor Langford
Teen Brains

May

Alabama Adventure sold
Alabama Sales Tax on Food
Construction Merger
Free Bus Rides
It's Elementary
Langford and Religion
Langford Speaks
Severe Storms
Smoking ban legislation
World's Top Auctioneer

June

Air Quality: a history
Air Quality: Emissions
Air Quality: Health
Air Quality: On The Line
Air Quality: Portland
Air Quality: Traffic
Birmingham City Budget
Chief Roper: The Interview
Dan Carsen on Larry Langford
Drought Update - water supply
Election 2008
Legislative Review and Preview
ShotSpotter
Strong Girls

July

Alabama Obesity Ranking
Banking Woes
Career Colleges
Goalball: Blind Ambition
HIV/AIDS in the South
John Archibald: Plugged
Larry Langford Profile
Local Government Update
Magic City Marketplace
Payday Lenders
Realty Check
Stopping Spam
Volkswagen Goes to Tennessee

2007

January

Consent Decree Lifted
Tyson Foods Lawsuit
WBHM 30th Anniversary

February

Cut It Out
God, Darwin and Dixie Part 1: Semantics
God, Darwin and Dixie Part 2: Stickers
God, Darwin and Dixie Part 3: Solution?
Nature Deficit Disorder
Physician Suicide
Second Careers
Short Stature Kids
Taking Mental Health to the Streets
VA Missing Hard Drive

March

Chevalier Burning Bright
March Storms
Prison Arts and Education
Steel Deal

April

A Safe Haven; A Safe Home
Chilton County Cold Snap
Community College Controversy
Dr. John Lennox
Gadsden Auction Houses
Healing Gardens
Sleep Apnea

May

Alabama lures steelmaker
Code Red
Olde Tyme Healing
Small Banks
Twice as Good: Condoleezza Rice and Her Path to Power

July

New Lab Opening
Semantics Antics
WBHM's 30th Anniversary

August

Birmingham: Suburbanly Divided
Urban Divide: Arts & Economy
Urban Divide: Housing
Urban Divide: Population Shift
Urban Divide: Schools

September

Conversations with the Homeless Czar
On The Line: The Urban Divide

October

Life Sentences for Teens
The Ghost Map

November

Bridge to Safety
Langford takes over

December

Searching for Safetown: Crime Stats & Economic Development
SFS: Black on Black
SFS: Broken Windows
SFS: By the Numbers
SFS: Juvenile Crime
SFS: On The Line
SFS: Police Ride-along
Wheat Prices Soar

2006

January

Autism: Diagnosis
Autism: Treatment
Katrina: Kids Mental Health
Medicare & Mental Health
Play Therapy
Remembering a Soldier: Stephen White
Root Shock
Women Leaders

February

Alabama Church Fires
Alabama Church Fires: Community Reaction
The Learning Game

March

Bibb County resolve
Domestic Abuse and Mental Illness
From BSC to Saturn's Moon
Making Sense of Mental Health: On the Line
Making Sense of Mental Health: Rebecca's Story
No Child Left Behind: Year 4
The Pentecostal Century
Whose Orders at abu Ghraib?

April

Autism & Diet
David Broder
Home Mental Health Care
Legislative Review and Preview
Marilynne Robinson
Pardoning Rosa Parks
Peace in the South

May

Howell Raines
Hurricane Katrina: Asian-American's Mental Health
International Women
Kenyan Student Group
Latino Mental Health
Lobbying the Statehouse
On The Line: Election 2006
Regions and AmSouth
Student Docs Debut
Technology and Trademarks

June

AIDS Epidemic Timeline
AIDS: The Epidemic in Alabama
Alabama's AIDS Orphans
Faith-based Voting
Meth and AIDS
Mockingbird
One Woman's Story
The MOMS Project

July

Caught in Beirut
North Korean missiles

August

Katrina: One year later
On the Line - education
The New, New Normal

September

Green Tea and DNA
Selling Geology's Gems

October

Elder Exploitation
General Wesley Clark
North Korea Nukes
Paying for Progress

November

Campaign 2006: The Results
Francesca Rosko
Justin Brown
On the Line: Mass Transit
Organ Donation
Race for Alabama Governor
Rethinking Violence: Is it a Disease?
Street Smart
The Secrets of Amarna

December

The Bodon Family Secret
The Harp Ladies
Tuskegee Doubts

2005

January

12 Days of Christmas
Counting the Uncounted
Evi's New Look
Flu season
Making Sense of Mental Health
Mental Health Stigma
New AIDS Drug
Not Just the Baby Blues

February

Black Farmer Lawsuit Update
Depressed Moms and Low Birth Weight
Medical Bankruptcy
Mental Music

March

A Modern Day Miortia
Autism Rates
Green Tea Rx
Minority Research Day
Music Therapy

April

A Southern T-Rex Cousin
ADHD Greentime
Alzheimer's Poetry Project
Art as Business
Big FIsh
Mind's Eye: Art & Mental Illness
Outside Inside Part 2
Outside Inside, Part 1
Structure Savers
The "New" New South
Tutwiler Storytime

May

Brown-vs-Board 2: Resegregation
Covering Suicide
Gloria Feldt
Mental Health Court
Mental Illness & Poverty
Parental Leave
Pharmacy's Prognosis
TR Pearson

June

2nd Homes
Activist Doctors and AIDS
Engineering New Territory
Ensley
Germany Photos
Koreans Driving Auto Competition
Rosemary's German Weblog
Winn Dixie Closing

July

Help for Honduras
Mental Health: Small Business Coverage
SciGirls

August

Animal Assisted Therapy
One Stasi Victim's Story
Teen Diary: Brittany Chase's Story
Teen Diary: Brittany Labrake's Story
Teen Diary: Story of a Cutter

September

AIDS Evacuees
Birmingham Post-Herald
Black Belt Poverty
Hurricane Banking Troubles
Hurricane Ruins Convention Business
Katrina-Alabama schools
No Child Left Behind
Post-Herald Last Edition
Shelter Closing
Teacher Shortage
The Last Days

October

Asperger's Syndrome: Nathan's Story
Birmingham: Open for Business
Boarding Home Inspections
Lemony Snicket
Remembering Rosa Parks
Special Weather Information
Super Outbreak of '74
Teen Depression Study
Young Zombies in Love

November

Anne Fadiman
House Budget & Mental Health Programs
Medicare D
Mental Health & Workplace Productivity
My Uncle Danny
Overcoming Schizophrenia
Special Education
The Gospel According to Anne

December

Asian Soybean Rust
Asperger's Syndrome: the Kids
Babec's Pacemaker
Flu Pandemic
Green Tea and Skin Cancer
Highway Tango
Holiday Blues
Lawyer Assistance Program
Meth Bill