Free UAB rally brings students and alumni together to pressure UA trustees
UAB alumni and students gathered to show University of Alabama trustees that they weren’t backing down from their desire for an on campus football stadium for the Blazers.
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Birmingham breaks ground on new downtown baseball park
The first pitch at what will be Regions Field, Birmingham’s new downtown baseball park, was thrown by Birmingham Mayor William Bell Thursday. Bell donned the jersey of the field’s future home team, the Birmingham Barons, for the occasion. The pitch was overhand, a little sloppy, but certainly a strike. The pitch was caught easily by Greg Paiml, a Hoover native and a Barons infielder.
UAB supporters rally for UA trustees meeting
On Thursday, hundreds of UAB supporters are expected to rally on campus when the University of Alabama board of trustees holds is latest meeting there. Follow here for real time updates.
Mayor Bell banked $232k in campaign cash in 2011
Only a few years ago, Birmingham Mayor William Bell couldn’t afford to pay his campaign manager, who later sued him. Today he has $175,738 in campaign cash, the Birmingham News reports, and that’s after spending $230,765 during last year’s mayoral election. Bell’s biggest contributions came from PACs with ties to the Business Council of Alabama and Drummond Coal. And that campaign manager? He finally got his money and is very happy, his lawyer says.
UAB students and Blazer fans organize #FreeUAB movement and rallies
Students and supporters of UAB have organized a movement to support the college in the face of a University of Alabama System board that organizers feel does not have the best interest of UAB at heart.
Students organize week-long demonstrations against HB56
If you see a funeral procession through Kelly Ingram Park next Friday, don’t worry — nobody actually died. It’s just a mock funeral procession led by students from area colleges in protest of Alabama’s immigration law, HB56.
Tolling the Northern Beltline? Gov. Bentley says maybe, suggests $2 billion roads program
In Nov. 2010, Alabama voters overwhelmingly rejected a roads program that would spend $1 billion in increments of $100 million a year for 10 years on building roads and bridges. Now, less than two years later, Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley has proposed spending double that amount on another roads and bridges program.
One of Larry Langford’s last bids for freedom comes up short
It’s bad news for former Birmingham mayor Larry Langford. On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Langford’s last chance for a direct appeal on a 15-year sentence for public corruption.
Weld publisher Mark Kelly joins John Archibald, Chuck Dean for panel Tuesday night
The Over the Mountain Democrats are convening a panel of media figures, including Weld publisher Mark Kelly and Birmingham News writers John Archibald and Chuck Dean, to discuss local and state politics for 2012.
Greater Birmingham Ministries executive director Scott Douglas appears on the Colbert Report
Douglas marked Martin Luther King’s birthday celebration and used MLK’s words to argue against HB56, Alabama’s tough new anti-immigrant law.
