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Christmas Tamales
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Unclaimed Baggage
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Carillon: The Bells of the Season
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The Road Less Traveled
The 94-mile highway known as Corridor X has been on the drawing board for three decades, but now, transportation officials say it is only a few years from being complete. For the small businesses ‘ the tiny mom and pop restaurants, hotels and service stations sprinkled along the old highway the interstate will parallel […]
For the Birds
On a quiet Sunday morning, the parking lot of the National Guard Armory is already filled with cars and vans and RVs, bearing tags as far away as Louisiana and Texas. A family reunion, maybe? Well, not exactly. The visitors who are flocking to this sprawling space are members of a unique subculture: bird enthusiasts. […]
Race for City Hall
With a record-setting number of candidates … 18 in all … many Birmingham voters say they’re having a hard time telling the players, even with a program. WBHM invited two local journalists who are covering the race to give us a perspective on what’s at stake for those seeking the mayor’s office and on the […]
Recycled/Remade: Folk Art at the BMA
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The Burning Bus
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40 Years of Civil Rights
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Election: The Numbers Game
UAB professor Larry Powell is ‘the poll guy’. When media outlets want to do a political poll ‘ more often than not they tap Powell for the job and ,boy, has he been busy these past few months! “Typically in politics the odd number years are off years, where you’re supposed to it back and […]
Remembering James Rachels
Across the University of Alabama Birmingham campus, faculty and staff are mourning the death of Dr. James Rachels ‘ a philosophy professor who wrote some of the most influential work on euthanasia. Bio-ethicist Greg Pence was a long-time friend and colleague. Speaking recently with WBHM’s Tanya Ott, he shared the story of how he first […]
School Fees
Tatnisha McTerry and her kids have settled into the morning routine.10-year-old Detrick and 11-year-old Justin scrub their Michael Jordan tennis shoes till they shine. “It’s 6:55 boys! Six-55! You’ll be rushing to catch the bus in a minute.” McTerry is playing catch-up financially. Registering four kids for public school has made a real dent in […]
The Anniston Depot: All Fired Up
Under the shade of a tent, Army Incinerator spokesperson Mike Abrams described what was happening on a closed circuit video monitor as an M-55 rocket, filled with a gallon of liquid nerve agent — Sarin — made its way down the conveyor belt. ‘What we see is the rocket at the punch station and the […]
Hair Cut Check Up
For many women, the hair salon is a confessional of sorts. Between perms, dye jobs, and liberal doses of gossip, they talk about current events, marriages, and family problems. “My oldest wanted an earring. Marcus he’s 12. No, no, no, he gotta prove some other things before he can get into that stuff. But you […]
The Clean Air Quest
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The Parable of Harry Potter
On a recent Sunday morning at Unity Church, on the southside of Birmingham, a couple of dozen kids, ranging in age from about six to 12, file down a stairway to a brightly-lit basement classroom for Sunday School. Gradually, the music and the conversations die down so the kids can recite the Lord’s Prayer. But […]
Health South: A Non-Profit Reality
Gary Edwards is happy to forget the old building his organization -‘ United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Birmingham -‘ used to inhabit. “We’d probably been in that particular one for 30 years -‘ we held it together with duct tape. That was a part of town that was kinda changing.” That’s a polite way of […]
Free Press Post 9-11
This is a military town. It’s home to the Army’s Redstone Arsenal, which along with the Marshall Space Flight Center, employs roughly 10-thousand people. So journalists like Huntsville Times Business Editor Shelley Haskins are used to dealing with a certain amount of red tape. “The military has never been buddy-buddy with reporters, imbedding aside. But […]
Buddhist Art in Birmingham
This week, at the Birmingham Museum of Art, this is what the art of patience sounds like… No, they’re not crickets. They’re ancient tools known as chakpus ‘ hollow, metal rods shaped like funnels. In the museum lobby, as onlookers come and go, seven Buddhist monks lean across a wide circular table, using the funnels […]
Anti War Movement
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Civics 101
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Alabama Earthquake
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Troops Ready to Go
Company B of the 926th Engineer Battalion checks out its fleet of huge, olive green, camouflaged earth-moving machines at its armory on Greensprings Highway in Birmingham. Reserve and National Guard units regularly crank and operate their equipment to be sure the engines run and axels turn. The equipment and personnel are required to be ready […]
Alabama Quarter
The US Mint has introduced the new Alabama quarter, with festivities at Ivy Green, the birthplace of Helen Keller, who is featured on the coin. Governor Bob Riley, former U.S. Senator Howell Heflin and former Miss America Heather Whitestone-McCallum joined U.S. Mint Director Henrietta Holsman-Fore for the recent festivities. Director Fore says, when completed, […]
Wide Awake
31-year-old Hunter Bell admits he’s addicted. Bell: Not only am I watching TV, but I’m also listening to radio stations and also looking at the internet’ excuse me. Bell was up till 3:30 in the morning early in the war. Since then he’s scaled back a bit ‘ hitting the sack between midnight and 1 […]
Filling The Gaps: The Dental Dilemma
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Birmingham Baseball History
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The Black College Challenge
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The Ringing Sideshow
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Waste Not Want Not
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The Politics of School
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Solemn Slolem
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