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Posted in Election 2010
Tagged AL, Alabama, B'ham, Birmingham, coverage, debate, mayoral, Online
The snowfall across the pond
As we wait for the pending snow event arrive in Central Alabama, we figured it would be a good idea to take a look across the Atlantic at what residents in the United Kingdom and Ireland are going through.
Our friends at the Birmingham Post have two photo galleries (check out their Iron Man in the second link) and a live blog with updates from around the region. The photo accompanying this piece was taken about earlier today in Arborfield. An American in Ireland decided fill his readers in on the similarities between how prepared Dublin and Birmingham are to handle any accumulation.
All we ask is that you take care of yourselves out there tomorrow.
Photo: Measuring the Depth. RTPeat/Flickr.
Help draw Birmingham’s blueprint
You don’t have much time left to help the Birmingham Business Alliance draw up a blueprint for The Magic City’s future.
An online survey is now available through tomorrow (December 23) that allows for you to add your voice to this planning initiative. Market Street Services of Atlanta, GA has coordinated the effort that has included focus group meetings with business leaders, area young professionals and others considered key stakeholders in Birmingham’s future. It appears that the final report which will be posted online, demonstrating the transparency that BBA president Dalton Smith spoke of when the new organization launched earlier this year.
Posted in The City
Tagged AL, Alabama, B'ham, BBA, Birmingham, Birmingham Business Alliance, blueprint, closes, information, survey
Election ’09:Let the mayoral forums begin
We’ve learned this morning that two mayoral forums have already been announced. The first one will be held by the Jefferson County alumnae chapter of Delta Sigma Theta on November 17. The second one we learned of is being organized by Catalyst for Birmingham and is scheduled to be held on December 1.
The real question becomes “Will people pay attention and take these events seriously?”
I figured one way to do it would be by seeing what folks would think about parts of my platform if I were to throw my hat in the ring… there’s still time, right?
Posted in Election '09
Tagged 2009, AL, Alabama, B'ham, Birmingham, election, mayor's race, mayoral, special election
Yes, follow surgery on Twitter
The folks at UAB are providing tweet-by-tweet coverage of a robotic adrenalectomy this morning, October 23. You can follow the procedure, being conducted by Martin J. Heslin, M.D. via their Twitter account, @uabmedicine or via the hashtag #UABOR. Or just click on the links in that previous sentence. To learn more about UAB’s first live-tweeted surgery, check out this entry on their website.
Tagged AL, Alabama, B'ham, Birmingham, Live tweet, medicine, Online, surgery, Twitter, UAB, uabmedicine
Show your East Lake pride
Some of you may vaguely remember our post about the Keep East Lake Weird campaign back in January. Well, residents have finally found a way to let everyone know just how proud they are about living in the community and its potential.
East Lake Apparel and Gifts is now up and live on the Interwebs giving you access with mugs, t-shirts (even Christmas ornaments).
Posted in Online
Tagged AL, Alabama, B'ham, Birmingham, Keep East Lake Weird, Online, store
Election ’10: The Battle for endorsements
We figured it was only a matter of time before we started covering next year’s governor’s race. What we didn’t expect was the battle for endorsements to get jump started so quickly.
First, word came yesterday of former Birmingham mayor (& the first African American to be elected to the post) Richard Arrington planning to announce his endorsement of Democratic gubernatorial candidate and Alabama’s agricultural commissioner Ron Sparks (that formal announcement is scheduled to happen around 2 p.m. this afternoon). Word came shortly thereafter from fellow candidate Artur Davis‘ campaign that U.W. Clemon, the first African-American to receive a federal judicial appointment, had endorsed the U.S. congressman.
Hopefully neither of these endorsements will mean as much as when the candidates meet during “State the Case”, the first of a series of Gubernatorial Informational Community Awareness Sessions being organized by the Metro Birmingham NAACP on Friday, October 23 beginning at 6 p.m. at Boutwell Auditorium.
Posted in Election 2010
Tagged AL, Alabama, Artur Davis, B'ham, Birmingham, Election '10, Richard Arrington, Ron Sparks, U.W. Clemon
