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It’s time to vote for Birmingham’s Best again

Posted on October 1, 2009 | Leave a comment

Birmingham's Best 2009 logo It’s that time of year again. The Birmingham News and AL.com have announced that they’re taking nominations for the Birmingham’s Best awards through Monday, October 5. You’ve got to enter choices for at least 10 categories and include a valid email address for your submission to be considered. After they tabulate the votes, they’ll give you a top 5 in each category from which you’ll choose Birmingham’s Best in the near future.

Yes, The Terminal came in second last year in the best website category and we still appreciate all of the folks that voted for us. That said, we’ll see what’s in store for us this year – and for everyone else. Don’t wait, get over there and start voting!

BTW – did you vote for the Tuxedo Junction photo online today as well?

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Tagged AL, Alabama, Birmingham, Birmingham's Best, poll

Vote for the Junction… cause it matters

Posted on September 30, 2009 | 1 comment

Tuxedo Junction photo The folks over at Main Street Birmingham (MSB) submitted a photo taken in front of the Nixon Building in Birmingham’s Ensley community as one of the 1,900 entries in this year’s National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Places That Matter Photo Contest. The photo is the latest piece in a campaign to raise funds for the renovation of the building into a cultural center for the community and the region.

Yesterday it was announced that the photo was picked to be one of the 12 finalists! You’ve got until October 9 to sign up and vote once-per-day for the photo.

MSB’s got additional instructions on their website as well as a rendering of what the completed project will look like when completed.

Just in case you’re interested, here’s the link to photos and descriptions of all the finalists.

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Posted in Take a moment

Tagged AL, Alabama, Birmingham, Campaign, contest, Ensley, Main Street Birmingham, National Trust for Historic Preservation, nixon building, NTHP, This Place Matters

CEI opens urban incubator downtown tonight

Posted on September 1, 2009 | Leave a comment

The Community Entrepreneurial Institute (CEI) will unveil its newest program, the Urban Business Incubator, with an open house/celebration this evening starting at 5 p.m. at its home in the A.G. Gaston Building in Birmingham’s historic Civil Rights District. The program will, according to CEI’s founder Dr. Karen Starks, “provide entrepreneurs with the resources necessary to start and create a sustainable company.” Urbanham.com has additional information about tonight’s event, including how interested parties can submit an application. Don’t forget about the LinkedIn event listing either…

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Tagged Alabama, Birmingham, CEI, information, open house

On the agenda: More XOs and safety

Posted on September 1, 2009 | Leave a comment

This morning’s Birmingham City Council agenda includes a request from Mayor Langford for permission to purchase 1,530 more XO laptops (Item 8) and distribute them to grades 1-6 while providing additional training for teachers and parents (Item 9). The total cost for the purchase and implementation – This comes less than a month after UAB was awarded a two-year $1 million grant to help integrate the XO laptop into math and science curriculum for the city’s school system and it can be said that it has been a successful program.

The city will also be moving forward with matching the $11,923.60 provided by the U.S. Department of Justice’s bulletproof vest partnership program (Item 10) ensuring increased protection for municipal law enforcement officers.

We’re pretty sure that @bhamweekly will be providing play by play of today’s meeting on Twitter… not completely sure though…

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Tagged agenda, AL, Alabama, B'ham, Birmingham, bulletproof vest, City Council, rundown, weekly meeting, XO laptop

Miles starts local college football season off right

Posted on August 31, 2009 | Leave a comment

While some folks believe that college football season doesn’t begin until Saturday, there’s a rather large legion of fans in metro Birmingham who’ve already been treated to a victory this year.

Miles College opened their season this past weekend against Lane College with the Golden Bears defeating the Dragons 35-18 in front of the hometown crowd. The Bears will face the Golden Tigers of Tuskegee University (1-0) at Legion Field this Sunday for the Labor Day Golden Classic.

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Tagged AL, Alabama, Birmingham, College, football, Lane College, Miles, opener, Sports