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
Surgeon general nominee Means questioned about vaccines, birth control and financial conflicts
During a confirmation hearing, senators asked Dr. Casey Means about her current positions and her past statements on a range of public health issues.
This novel about family drama is so good you may want to re-read it immediately
Allegra Goodman's new novel is called This Is Not About Us, but critic Maureen Corrigan says that title is coy: Readers are bound to see aspects of themselves and their families in these pages.
Actor Stellan Skarsgård doesn’t believe in bad guys
Skarsgård plays a filmmaker struggling to connect with his two grown daughters in Sentimental Value. As the father of eight, the Swedish actor says he understands the tension his character faces.
Kalshi reveals insider trading case against editor for MrBeast
With prediction markets booming, so have concerns about insider trading. Now, Kalshi has disclosed its first public actions against accounts suspected of trading on confidential information.
Greetings from Jordan’s Wadi Rum desert, where patches of green emerge after winter rains
Wadi Rum's otherworldly landscape is where Star Wars movies and The Martian were filmed. In late winter, plants emerge in this desert — but some are toxic to camels, so their herders must protect them.
Lack of transportation keeps many Alabamians from working. Rural public transit programs are trying to help
While lack of transportation is a major employment barrier in Alabama, few people take public transit to work. That dynamic is even more pronounced in rural areas.
