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.
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.
The Birmingham City Council approved new committee assignments on Tuesday, after new council officers were chosen recently. The Council approved new committee assignments, which will be for a term of two years. Two new committees were created in the process, the Community Development Committee and the Workforce Development Committee. Chairs of the new committees –
UPDATED — It ain’t over. Jefferson County’s efforts to escape an environmental consent decree took a bit of a hit Tuesday, with the U.S. District Court denying its motion to declare the county sewer system in compliance with the decree. That ruling came hours after the Jefferson County Commission moved to Thursday’s agenda an agreement to pay $2.223 million in fines to the Environmental Protection Agency. Read more.
The Birmingham City Council in a special called meeting Friday elected Darryl O’Quinn as its president on a 5-3-1 vote after the legality of his initial election, on Tuesday, came under questioning. Read more.
The Jefferson County Commission on Thursday authorized its support of Innovation Depot and the Birmingham Business Alliance, but not without Commissioner Sheila Tyson voicing her objection. “I feel like both of those organizations do not address the businesses in the minority community,” she said. “(They) don’t reach farther out from downtown.” Read more.
