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Those that were in downtown Birmingham last week may have noticed city crews working around traffic lights and light poles, particularly along 20th Street North. Well, a closer look at this picture shows that the city employee is spray painting the traffic signal casing black. Poles and pedestrian crossing signals were also painted black as [...]

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A rainbow graced the Birmingham area this morning. At times it formed a faint second rainbow, but that one did not last long. The main rainbow lasted for more than a half an hour. The photo was taken looking southwest toward downtown from the Roebuck area.

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That would be based on a ruling made by the Supreme Court in Washington this morning (yes, that crew in Washington). They’ve ruled that Governor Riley did not have to get Federal approval to appoint a fellow Republican to a vacant spot on the Mobile County Commission.
Justice Ginsburg’s opinion is 38 [...]

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Wade on Birmingham is still giving away two (2) sets of passes to the 2nd annual Preserve Jazz Festival in Hoover, AL on June 1 - and you’ve only got until 12 p.m. TODAY to get over there and enter to win!
The festival brings together some of the biggest names in smooth jazz and gives [...]

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When we last left our friendly neighborhood blog for the holiday weekend, we teased you about giving away tickets to City Stages 20 this week(we also teased about our upcoming concert in July, but more on that later on)…
Despite some delays this morning, we’re now happy to finally invite you to enter our latest contest! [...]

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1942:
Torchmark founder Frank P. Samford, Jr married Virginia Carolyn Suydam.
2004:
Former governor Don Siegelman was indicted on federal bid-rigging charges.
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About a month ago, I announced that we were seriously considering shutting the site down effective May 30. (Surprise to everyone who didn’t see it…) Well, we’ve made a decision: while we are still a long way from achieving our financial goals, we’re not going away - at least not yet.
We wanted to make sure [...]

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