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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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Playing Nice
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