Today marks the 200th birthday of English naturalist Charles Darwin, whose ground-break science book On the Origin of Species, turns 150 this year. Here’s are just a few of the mainstream news reports out today on the event. We will have a special report on Darwin from Tennessee later on in the spring. Reuters –…
Daily Archives: February 12, 2009
Folsom Commission Proposes New West Alabama Highway
Lt. Governor Jim Folsom’s Commission on Public-Private Partnerships issued its report in a Montgomery press conference Thursday morning calling for a new Interstate highway running north-south in West Alabama. We are in the process of evaluating the proposal and getting reaction comments from sources now. If you are interested, you can read the report at…
Gallup Poll Compares Alabama's Religious to Iran
You don’t have to go far to find religious nuts in Alabama. According to a recent Gallup Poll, Alabamians are about as likely as Iranians to say religion is an important part or their lives. In Iran, 83 percent of people say that. In Alabama, it’s 82 percent.
