Not only does Mississippi not fight with us over water, it doesn’t fight with us over traffic either. Our neighbor to the west and Tennessee have joined Alabama in a “Take Back Our Highways” blitz during this Thanksgiving holiday week starting … yesterday. Yes, that’s why you saw a bunch of troopers on the road [...]

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Seems like young professionals are on the minds of many as Larry Langford prepares to take his oath of office at noon today at Boutwell Auditorium. This morning’s Birmingham News article contains quotes from several prominent young professionals in our community about their desire to become more involved in The Magic City’s future.
While we figure [...]

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Our first two questions dealt with the issues affecting the city in the eyes of Birmingham area young professionals and what exciting things were giving them hope. The third question asked what would help empower area young professionals. Like we said yesterday, there were not many answers but those that we did get were quite [...]

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After focusing on what they thought was wrong in Birmingham, the second question had our respondents talk about what excites them about The Magic City.
Choose three thing that you feel make Birmingham an exciting place to be right now:
The written comments received for this survey question ranged from focusing on downtown to not really [...]

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The first question that our respondents answered in our survey was one that ranked the issues that were most important to them facing the city and the region right now through the eyes of a young professional. The overwhelming issue was image, or the perception of an image problem. Though there was a much [...]

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Late last week, we partnered with YP Now to conduct a survey trying to find out what issues were on the minds of our area’s future leaders. We are happy to report that we received more than 120 responses to the survey.
Beginning this evening we are going to take a closer look at the responses, [...]

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We bet you’re wondering why the site’s even quieter than it has been recently. Well, we’re sure that many of you had no idea that we were conducting a survey about issues that are affecting area young professionals as well as what made them most excited about living in The Magic City. Yeah, we were, [...]

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