The Birmingham City Council on Tuesday approved $5 million in funding to help keep Birmingham-Southern College operating. The city will provide BSC a $2.5 million loan that will be forgiven provided BSC opens classes in the fall and a 20-year loan for the same amount to be repaid at a 1% interest rate. Read more.
Around Thanksgiving a year ago, a landfill near Moody caught fire, blanketing the surrounding area with smoke. The fire burned for months before the Environmental Protection Agency covered the landfill with dirt to extinguish the flames, but there have been flare ups since. To understand what things are like now, WBHM talked with one nearby resident. Read more.
Extreme temperatures; worsening wildfires, hurricanes and floods; infrastructure problems; agricultural impacts: The way you experience climate change will depend on where you live. Read more.
Last year, 110 Birmingham residents received $375 a month for a 12-month period through the Embrace Mothers guaranteed income program funded by Mayors for a Guaranteed Income. Forty-eight mayors have adopted these pilot programs, so what have we learned about guaranteed income? Community members can find out at a program Tuesday that will include screening of the new film “It’s Basic.” Read more.
Cool Green Trees, a project of Cawaco RC&D, plants trees in under-resourced communities in the Birmingham area to help mitigate climate change and advance environmental justice initiatives. Read more.
With Super Tuesday looming, political pundits across the country have been scrutinizing Alabama and the state’s newly redrawn Congressional District 2 because it offers the possibility of a second Democratic representative being elected from the state. As dominoes fall, that could affect the split between Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. House. A big spotlight will be turned on Alabama all election season because of that. But that’s hardly the only race on Alabama’s ballot. Two congressional districts that cover Jefferson County are on the ballot, and incumbents have challengers from their own parties in each. State and local judges populate a lot of the ballot. And party nominees will be selected in Jefferson County races such as tax collector and Board of Education members. Read more. For more information on candidates up and down the ballot, read: Alabama and Jefferson County Democratic Candidates Alabama and Jefferson County Republican Candidates 21 Candidates Qualify for Alabama 2nd Congressional District Race
The race to fill Alabama’s new 2nd Congressional District will be a crowded one. Twenty-one candidates – 13 Democrats and eight Republicans – have entered the race. The Democratic candidates are: James Averhart, a retired U.S. Marine and former 2020 congressional candidate; Rep. Napoleon Bracy, Jr., D-Prichard; Sen. Merika Coleman, D- Pleasant Grove; House Minority
JEFFERSON COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY CANDIDATES Jefferson County Probate, Place 1 – Yawanna Nabors McDonald Jefferson County Probate, Place 1 – Yashiba “Red” Blanchard Jefferson County Probate, Place 1 – Everett Wess Jefferson County Probate, Place 1 – Lee Wendell Loder Jefferson County Probate, Place 1 – Joi L. Travis Jefferson County, Probate 2
JEFFERSON COUNTY REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES Jefferson County Probate Judge, Place 1 John Amari Jefferson County Probate Judge, Place 2 Joel R. Blankenship Jefferson County Assistant Treasurer Delor Baumann Jefferson County Assistant Tax Collector Johnny Curry Jefferson County Board of Education, Place 1 Phillip Brown Jefferson County Board of Education, Place 2 Robert
The Birmingham City Council on Tuesday approved selling a former AmSouth Bank building in Ensley to Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity so it can establish a community center there. The Mu Psi Lambda chapter of the fraternity intends to refurbish the building and transform it into a multi-purpose outreach center to serve as a resource to the Ensley community by eliminating blight, providing youth and community training programs and other services. Read more.
