Well, did you? Well, you’ve got until 7 p.m. to do so here in Birmingham, AL as we hold elections to see who will be representing us as city councilors and members of the city’s school board. City Hall’s planning on sharing election totals live on its front page, with the mayor even suggesting that voter turnout would be between 15-25% of registered voters this time.
This morning myfoxal.com’s blog is reporting that Larry Langford has had an attorney named to defend him against corruption charges because he is unable to afford representation. The court order, handed down by federal magistrate Paul Greene was handed down last week.
Photo: Bob Farley/f8Photo
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Tagged AL, Alabama, B'ham, Birmingham, court order, document, information, Larry Langford, trial
U.S. Congressman Spencer Bachus is holding a town hall meeting of his own this evening, August 17, at the Cahaba Grand Conference Center beginning at 7 p.m. He hopes to give the folks he represents in Alabama’s 6th Congressional district an opportunity to voice their concerns over the current national debate about an overhaul of our health care system. He also recently released a statement about how some are trying to discredit the town hall meetings that have already been held. Tonight’s event will no doubt bring out vocal supporters to the two main camps that have developed during the national discourse.
Photo: U.S. House of Representatives.
UPDATE: 8.11.2009 – The organizers of the Birmingham Heritage Festival have announced that this year’s event has been canceled. The Birmingham News has the details.
Apparently the reduction in ticket prices last weekend for this weekend’s Birmingham Heritage Festival has encouraged its organizers to move forward with it (at least according to the front page of their official website. Those who bought tickets to see Ludacris at the festival on Friday night though may be a little disappointed; the hip-hop star sent out the following tweet last night:
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Tagged AL, Alabama, B'ham, Birmingham, Birmingham Heritage Festival, cancellation, Festival, information, Ludacris, music, tweet, Twitter, update
For those wondering why Twitter‘s currently down, the folks at Mashable have an answer for you. BTW, the folks at Twitter are planning to keep you updated as well via their status blog.
UPDATE: Twitter says they are defending themselves against a denial-of-service attack.
Earlier today Editor & Publisher reported that the parent company of Birmingham’s daily newspaper (The Birmingham News), Advance Publications, let their staffers at their numerous newspapers know that the company’s long-standing “no layoff” policy was going to be no more as of February 2010.
Local media blog Media of Birmingham is reporting that employees with at least five years at the paper were offered buyouts with the news being shared by Wade Kwon via Twitter this afternoon.
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Tagged AL, Alabama, announcement, B'ham, Birmingham, Birmingham News, layoffs, Media, potential
Folks had until yesterday to qualify for the August 25 municipal elections for Birmingham’s City Council and Board of Education. Runoffs if necessary would take place on October 6. That meant that I’ve spent most of today trying to find out how many of them have a web presence. The results follow below.
We start with the list of candidates running for City Council’s nine (9) representative seats. It starts after the jump.
BTW, no surprise, it’s a long one with 46 people qualifying by the deadline.
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Tagged AL, Alabama, B'ham, Birmingham, candidates, City Council, election, Election 2009, final list, information, links, Online, website
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