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O Christmas Tree
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Green Christmas
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Black Farmer Lawsuit
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Ham Day
Ham Day is coming! Oh ‘ and Christmas. But HAM DAY! You see, I’m a surely receptionist by trade. It’s an easy, but irritating job with one major exception. Ham Day. Ham Day is my reward for a year of not lashing out at insistent callers. Ham Day is my release from the confines of […]
Public Health 911
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USA Track: The Lee Evans Story
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Fall Break
The semester is half over and children have been hard at work. They’ve earned more than a weekend’s respite. At least, that’s the feeling of the nine Alabama school districts, including Jefferson and Shelby County, that have included a fall break in their school calendar for this year. It’s the third year for fall breaks […]
Economic Irony
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Watermelon 101
It’s an age-old puzzle. You’re standing in front of dozens of gorgeous watermelons…how do you choose the best one? The experts say there are two schools of thought on that… ‘You want one that’s not a bright, shiny green…’ ‘You pat on it, like that” ‘There’s a little stem, and when it turns brown it’s […]
World’s Longest Yard Sale
The grassy shoulders of the Lookout Mountain Parkway are littered with everything from furniture and electronics to handmade quilts and lawn ornaments. But the residents of the houses that dot this usually calm 2 lane highway are hardly complaining: Instead, they have set up concession stands to sell lemonade, polish sausages, and funnel cakes to […]
Youth Workforce Development
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Old Fashioned Market
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Sock Capital of the World
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Bank Merger
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Drug Reimportation: Promise or Peril?
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John Grisham’s Mickey
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Protecting Alabama’s Innocent, Part 2
The downtown office of the Department of Human Resources is a cold, desolate looking place. Fluorescent lights flicker overhead, casting a sterile glow over the room, with its hard plastic chairs and cool tile floor. You can see PBS kids programming through the snow on the t.v., parenting magazines are scattered about the battered magazine […]
Protecting Alabama’s Innocent, Part 1
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Food Safety
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Fast Food Trends
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Scholar’s Bowl
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Nursing Shortage
Scores of young nurses learn their IVs from their catheters each year at the University of Alabama at Birmingham hospital. But UAB’s nursing school has turned away nearly 100 qualified applicants in the last year because it didn’t have the people to teach them. Associate Dean Elizabeth Stullenbarger co-chairs a regional committee that surveys nursing faculty […]
Alabama Bluegrass
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Living with Arthritis: Joseph’s Story
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If Money Grew on Trees
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Philanthropy: Venture Philanthropy
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Philanthropy: Transfer of Wealth
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Medical Residents: Underpaid/Overworked
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Hormone Replacement Therapy: Risks & Benefits
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Education Budget Cuts
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Inside Interpreting
For several days, your back has been killing you. You make an appointment with a doctor, camp out in the waiting room. And finally, when you’re ushered back to the doctor’s office, he greets you in Spanish. That’s how it feels for the thousands of Hispanic immigrants in Alabama who speak limited English. Until recently, […]
Child Care Crunch
Carol Pierson is a fighter. After escaping a violent marriage, she fought to get off welfare and find a good job at a local university. ‘I work in the human genetics department. I’ve been there a little over 2 years. I love my job. I enjoy working there.’ After taxes, health insurance and mandatory retirement […]
