The National Weather Service and the Weather Channel are predicting a chance of snow on Monday in Alabama, Mississippi, and northern Georgia and for sure in Tennessee, which could present a potential photo op. “Accumulating snow is a good bet to develop in the higher southern Appalachians,” according to this report from lead meteorologists Buzz…
Monthly Archives: November 2008
No. 1 Alabama Shuts Out Auburn, 36-0
The University of Alabama shut out the Auburn Tigers Saturday in the game formerly known as the Iron Bowl at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa. Alabama’s Glen Coffee rushed for 144 yards and a touchdown Saturday, helping to break the back of the Auburn defense… For full coverage of the game, check out our sister blog…
Alabama Favored by 14 over Auburn
Time Out by Dan Rutledge TV Schedule Below It’s Grudge Week No. 2. No, we’re not touting an upcoming pro-wrestling or ultimate fighting-cage match. We’re talking about Week.13, the final regular-season week of the 2008 SEC football season. The final weekend is a busy one, with seven games on tap — but one stands out…
Sean Penn: The Truth about Chavez and Castro
Actor and filmmaker Sean Penn talks with Raul Castro about Obama, Guantanamo, and the Pentagon; and with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on human rights in his country and the next U.S. administration. To read the full cover story on this in The Nation magazine online, here’s the link.
An American Robin Feasting on Dogwood Berries
Glynn Wilson A flock of American robins [Turdus migratorius] went absolutely crazy today over the dogwood berries in northeast Jefferson County. I had to take a break from blogging to get some shots. Here’s one of the best. The temperatures eased back up into the 50s today after our early winter weather here, and the…
Looking Ahead: Facing Reality
Georgia Dome by Dwayne Hood ATLANTA, Ga. — The fat lady has sung. The confetti has been swept from the floor, inauguration plans are made, and America is closing a chapter on one of the worst presidencies in our history. Political honeymoons are nice but inevitably short lived. In the coming year, Americans will awake…
Alabama Governor's Horse Race for 2010 Starts Now
by Glynn Wilson The voting machines are not even locked away in the closet yet from the presidential election of 2008 and candidates are already lining up at the trough to get into the horse race of 2010 in Alabama. Glynn Wilson Rep. Artur Davis, D-Birmingham Media critics have long complained about the coverage of…
EPA Seeks Input on Greenhouse Gases Regulations
In response to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Massachusetts v. EPA, a high-profile case brought by the Center for Biological Diversity and other environmental advocacy groups, the Environmental Protection Agency is seeking public input on the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act — a critically important step in solving…
A Thanksgiving Message: Making Democracy Work
Under the Microscope by Glynn Wilson I don’t remember the exact moment when I first realized how important the press is in making democracy work. The simple fact is, the realization did not happen in one moment of epiphany. It took years of working at it and reading about it and thinking about it, even…
Outliers: Malcolm Gladwell's Story of Success
Malcolm Gladwell’s goal is to adjust our understanding of how people get to where they are. It is a fascinating account of a question I have pondered myself as a journalist and academic. Instead of the Horatio Alger story of success – a gifted child who through heroic striving within a meritocratic system becomes a…
Grudge Match Week One: Bragging Rights on the Line
Time Out by Dan Rutledge TV Schedule Below Week No. 12 is the first half of a two-week Grudge Match Week in the Southeastern Conference, where in-state or old traditional foes get together. You know, the “you can throw the record books out on this one” kind of games where a win for one team…
Alabama Ranks Number 1: In Mercury Pollution
Glynn Wilson Alabama Power’s Miller Steam Plant on the Locust Fork emits more mercury into the air than any other power plant in the country. by Glynn Wilson What do you know? Alabama is number one in something besides football: Mercury pollution. And the source of that pollution just happens to be located along the…
With a New Day Dawning in DC, Will Rove Escape Justice?
by Glynn Wilson With a new day dawning in Washington, D.C., due to the election of Barack Obama as the first black president in American history, who looks determined to govern like Lincoln and make changes in that corrupt town, is it possible that Bush administration officials will totally escape the long arm of justice…
Appeals Court Upholds Citizen Suits under Clean Water Act
The Eleventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta has upheld the right of citizens and environmental groups to sue polluting companies under the Clean Water Act in the southeastern United States. The court ruled on November 13 that a Clean Water Act citizen suit is not barred by a state administrative action, commenced after…
GQ Publishes Massive '08 Election Photo Essay
Here at the LocustFork.Org Institute for Understanding Media, Politics, Public Opinion and People, we’re always looking for interesting stories and pictures from old media as well as new media. There are lot’s of ways to find out what’s going on in the world, and e-mail lists are one of them. I recently joined some of…
Bill Maher Says Legalize Marijuana 'For the Economy'
It looks as though comedian Bill Maher has been reading this Website. Or perhaps as they say, great minds think alike : ) I’ve been advocating this position for years to eliminate the Bush deficit. In our recent review of Religulous, the hit movie that came out of an offshoot of one of his big routines over the…
A Special Kind of Ugly
Georgia Dome by Dwayne Hood ATLANTA, Ga. — What would you think of someone who mocked a disabled person? How would you feel if they insulted grieving widows or degraded a tortured child? These things have happened in the last two years by celebrated millionaires who market hatred and intolerance. Following a rout in the…
A Day of Reckoning for Don Siegelman, Eleventh Circuit
The Case for Why Siegelman’s Verdict Should Be Overturned by Glynn Wilson Former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman was cooking a pizza at his Birmingham home when I got him on the phone Thursday night to talk about his appeal coming up on the ninth of December in Atlanta. Glynn Wilson Former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman…
Revenge Tour on Track in T-Town
Time Out by Dan Rutledge One down, two to go on the Alabama Crimson Tide’s 2008 “Revenge Tour.” That’s what they’re calling it in Tuscaloosa. Articles about last season’s late meltdown are posted in the Tide locker room as a reminder – not that any of the Tide players are likely to forget last Novemeber,…
Explosive New Story Lends Credence to Siegelman Appeal
New Reporting May Show Bush Was ‘In the Loop’ Glynn Wilson Former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman in front of the federal courthouse in Montgomery, with Sephira Bailey Shuttlesworth, wife of Birmingham Civil Rights icon Fred Shuttlesworth, in the background. by Glynn Wilson Former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman and HealthSouth founder Richard Scrushy will get another…
