End of Year Slideshow
This year, our team spent a lot of time outside the confines of the station, visiting communities across the heart of Alabama with our News & Brews events. Our team showed up. We traveled to cities and towns where WBHM has likely never set foot in the past 48 years. Getting out from behind the microphone and discussing the news with our listeners has been a powerful reminder that public media–and WBHM’s work right here in our community–must remain invested in local reporting on issues that affect us all, as well as the art, culture, and events that inspire us.
We hope you’ll enjoy this small sampling of highlights from your local team at WBHM and the Gulf States Newsroom:
WBHM Slide show by Tameesha
House GOP leaders prep vote on budget despite rift within the party
Republicans in Congress are closer to passing key elements of President Trump's legislative agenda — like extending tax cuts that expire at the end of the year — but only if the House and Senate can get on the same page.
‘We love them’: Small N.Y. town embraces a family freed from immigration detention
"I get goose bumps," said school principal Jamie Cook, thinking about the community rallying to support the family. The three students and their mother were arrested by immigration agents.
USAID enabled 208 Afghan women to defy the Taliban ban on college — until now
A USAID grant enabled them to either study online or enroll in college in another country. Now the grant has been terminated.
A biotech company says it has bred three pups with traits of the extinct dire wolf
Colossal Biosciences says it used novel gene-editing technology to alter gray wolf DNA to breed the animals. Dire wolves recently featured prominently in the HBO series Game of Thrones.
Supreme Court lets Trump move forward with firing thousands of federal workers
The Supreme Court's stay, which allows the administration to execute the firings for now while it litigates in federal court, does not mean the terminations were lawful.
‘A Minecraft Movie’ is both a box office hit and post-ironic meme
Studios have struggled to get younger generations into the theaters for years. Could more immersive experiences be their golden ticket?
