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Raise your voices on ROX

June 10th, 2008 · Comments Off · Citywide

Laney DeGeorge (Rojo) and Sue Moody are scheduled to be on this morning’s ROX Report radio show on 1070-AM until 8:30 a.m. They’re asking that folks call in to the studio with comments about the Knights of Columbus property in Glen Iris that been a recurring topic of conversation in recent months. They also want [...]

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It was time to pray

April 25th, 2008 · View Comments · Citywide, Events

Mojo Denbow/PhotoMojo.info
This is one of the images taken by Mojo Denbow earlier this evening at the “It’s Time to Pray” summit at Boutwell Auditorium in downtown Birmingham, AL. Click on the image to view a small slideshow, with links to the photos in his Flickr stream.

Boutwell’s the tipping point tonight

April 25th, 2008 · Comments Off · Citywide, Religion, politics

This morning’s Birmingham News points out the frequency that days of prayer are held in the city (as Mayor Langford prepares for one this evening officially announced earlier this week) well as the rumblings about legal action that may be taken if it’s found to be an official government event. The event has definitely drawn [...]

Comparisons of biblical proportion today in City Hall

April 22nd, 2008 · Comments Off · Citywide, Religion

There are days when you just want to curl up and hide; unfortunately that was one of those days for me, so I was not in attendance at the weekly city council meeting when Mayor Larry Langford drew comparisons between The Magic City and the City of Nineveh in the language used for his proclamation [...]

Langford’s had a busy day…

April 22nd, 2008 · Comments Off · Citywide, Education, Transit

Mayor Langford speaks to students at Phillips Academy during Wachovia’s Way2Save event on April 22. acnatta/Flickr.
Larry Langford’s been a busy individual this morning. Here he’s seen talking to area school children during today’s Wachovia Way2Save event. Representatives from four area schools each received $2,000 for their scholarship funds at the event. The mayor spent most [...]

SxDS: It’s on!

April 18th, 2008 · Comments Off · Citywide, technology

We’ve just learned that SxDS is going to happen September 26 – 28 here in Birmingham, Alabama. There will also be a WordCamp rolled into the event; it would be the first WordCamp in the Southeastern United States. Yeah, that’s on top of already having the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival that same weekend (it’s 10th!). [...]

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Blogging in the ‘Ham: A great resource for “Mom”

April 8th, 2008 · View Comments · Citywide, blogging

Screenshot from Birminghammom.com
Searching around the web to see what we haven’t seen about Birmingham always brings some interesting results. The most recent discovery was that of a blog started to help make life easier for area moms. Birminghammom.com started last October as what has become a resource for area families to spend more time together. [...]