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A state law requires the water works board to have a consulting engineer review rate changes, and the board hasn’t yet hired one.
The board over the embattled water utility renamed it the City of Birmingham Regional Water Works, which will operate as Central Alabama Water.
The Alabama Initiative for Independent Journalism is suspending publication of BirminghamWatch until at least early September as it is unable to secure enough bridge funding to operate until grant funds are scheduled to arrive in October.
Journalistic larceny is actually legal if it falls within the subjective guidelines of “fair use.” The harder question is what represents ethical vs. unethical use of another news organization’s good work.
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