Earlier this week, Pete Reihm and Dean Young were asked if they would file articles of impeachment against U.S. President Barack Obama. Reihm and Young, who are both running against incumbent Rep. Jo Bonner to be the Republican candidate in Alabama’s 1st Congressional district (southwest Alabama), replied “yes,” they would file articles of impeachment against Obama.
In 2010 Tim James lost a three-man race for the GOP gubernatorial nomination. Today he’s backing Roy Moore, who’s in a three-man race for the GOP chief justice nomination.
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.
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.
When you scratch at what makes Jefferson County’s budget different than other counties, the answer is Cooper Green Mercy Hospital. But are residents willing to continue indigent care?
This week on WBHM we talk about Bingo Trial II, former Gov. Don Siegelman’s appeal to the United States Supreme Court and who Spencer Bachus wishes he were running against.
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.
Having gotten little truck in the lower courts, former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman has appealed his 2006 conviction on federal bribery charges to the United States Supreme Court. Siegelman is challenging whether and when a campaign contribution can be considered a bribe.
Speaking at a prayer breakfast this week, State Sen. Shadrack McGill, R-Woodville, (neither name nor hometown made up) said that raising teacher pay is against the teachings of the Bible because it would attract people not “called” to teach, the Dekalb County Times journal reported Tuesday. In the very same speech, McGill defended a 62 percent pay hike for state lawmakers, saying it protected them from corruption.
The order said as much: “Because of the notice of the death of defendant Joseph R. Crosby, it is ORDERED that defendant Joseph R. Crosby’s jury selection and trial are canceled.”
