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And it’s not the one you were expecting. The Birmingham News reports that Barry Taylor announced his intention to run for mayor yesterday afternoon. Taylor is works for the city as an inspector and joins what promises to be a packed house. There are now as few as one and as many as three more people considering declaring their candidacy, joining the others that already officially declared their candidacy.

You can still submit your questions for all of the candidates for our upcoming series by clicking here (they will also be possibly used for the candidates forum scheduled for September 18.

Don’t forget: There’s still time to submit questions for us to ask the candidates! Click here to learn more about.

Ignore the date in the post; the deadline to submit questions is this Friday, August 10.

It appears that we picked a bad day to skip the weekly city council meeting. We figured that the Southern Heritage Festival item would pass easily, so we played hooky. We’d also figured that current Birmingham mayor Bernard Kincaid was planning to announce his plans to run for a third term in office this week after learning that he’d removed himself from the municipal election commission. We just didn’t think he’d announce today (the office pool had him announcing tomorrow at the earliest, BTW).

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