Stop Financing Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Scott Edwards, Senior Staff Attorney for WATERKEEPER Alliance and Hurricane Creekkeeper, John L. Wathen speak to reporters after Chase, J. P. Morgan protest demonstration. More than a hundred supporters showed up outside JPMorgan Chase to tell the bank’s CEO Jamie Dimon that he is destroying our country and people’s…
Monthly Archives: October 2009
Biggest Outdoor Cocktail Party on Halloween
Alabama Is Off This Week, So Saturday’s Big Game is Florida vs. Georgia Sources say Alabama’s Terrence Cody, 6-foot-5 and a biscuit short of 400 pounds, will dress up as Mt. Rushmore this Halloween… TV Lineup and Lines Below Time Out by Dan Rutledge Which SEC football teams will get treats and which will be…
Fall Foliage Weather Report
The best chance for viewing fall foliage color changes in Middle Alabamaland should come Sunday through Tuesday, as the color appears to be peaking now. Friday‘s forecast calls for a patchy drizzle early in the morning with a slight chance of thunderstorms early in the afternoon…then showers likely and chance of thunderstorms late in the…
Big Coal is Sasquatch
Kentucky Basketball Dorm Named ‘Wildcat Coal Lodge’ Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy As we reported earlier, Joseph W. Craft III, who heads Alliance Coal, put up $7 million for a new men’s basketball team residence hall for the University of Kentucky along with a group of donors he…
What's Next on the Health Care Reform Agenda?
An Update from the Ed Show Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Also, House Democrats reached agreement Wednesday on key elements of a health care bill that would vastly alter America’s medical landscape, requiring virtually universal sign-ups and establishing a new government-run insurance option for millions. House Speaker Nancy…
Talk About Your Waste, Fraud and Abuse
Thirty Percent of Health Insurance Premiums Used to Lobby Against Reform? Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Establishing a national single-payer style health-care reform system would provide a major stimulus for the U.S. economy by creating 2.6 million new jobs, and infusing $317 billion in new business and public…
Kentucky Wildcat 'Coal' Lodge?
A Green Building Named for Dirty Coal? Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Joseph W. Craft III, who heads Alliance Coal, put up $7 million for a new men’s basketball team residence hall for the University of Kentucky along with a group of donors he put together. But in…
Swann-Joy Covered Bridge Closed for Repairs
Glynn Wilson The Swann-Joy covered bridge in Blount County, Alabama, is closed for repairs, but you can park and walk over it from either side, off Highways 79 or 160. Built in 1933, the 324-foot bridge is the longest existing covered bridge in Alabama and one of the longest in the United States. It was…
Bingo Gambling Ruled Illegal
Order Could Impact Video Gaming Statewide by Glynn Wilson In a local gambling ruling that could have repercussions statewide, bingo machines are now illegal in Walker County, according to a ruling by Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge Robert S. Vance. He ordered the Walker County bingo halls to shut down immediately. Reacting to the news…
Fall Foliage Not Yet Peaking on the Locust Fork
Glynn Wilson We chased the autumn color north into Blount County on Sunday, but it’s not peaking yet. Fine day to be outside, though. Click on the image for more photos in this slide show on Facebook…
Demonstrations for Climate Change Dot the Globe
Environmental activists staged events around the globe on Saturday to highlight the number needed to prevent disastrous climate change due to human induced global warming from the burning of fossil fuels: 350 parts per million of carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere. Scientists say that’s the safe upper limit, although the atmosphere already reaches up…
Fourth Saturday in October: Alabama vs. Tennessee
TV Lineup and Lines Below Time Out by Dan Rutledge Well, the first BCS standings are out and it looks good for the SEC with Florida No. 1 and Alabama No. 2. In the previous 11 seasons in which the BCS was used to determine the teams that would play for the national championship, either…
Saturday is International Climate Action Day
Events Planned at Birmingham Southern College A group of college students representing Birmingham-Southern College’s Students Engaged Actively in Environmental Issues and the Coalition of Alabama Students for the Environment will host a Climate rally at the college’s new Urban Environmental Park Saturday, Oct. 24. The event is part of International Climate Action Day, where hundreds…
Fall Foliage Color Report Update 2009
Glynn Wilson It’s that time of year again, time to chase the changing autumn foliage into the hills. The next two weeks is prime time in the Southeast. There are a number of Web sites that provide updates on the fall colors. Here’s one pretty good one put up by the U.S. Forest Service.
Karl Rove's 'Exxon Eight' At It Again
Alabama’s Supreme Court Continues to Screw Citizens Guest Column by Roger Schuler The Alabama Supreme Court apparently was not content to cheat the public with the outrageous ExxonMobil ruling. It pulled pretty much the same fraudulent stunt again the other day, with a few slight variations. In late 2007, the Alabama Supremes stunned many observers…
Arrington Endorses Sparks for Governor of Alabama
Glynn Wilson by Glynn Wilson KELLY INGRAM PARK, Ala. — Sending a clear message that Rep. Artur Davis will not garner all the African-American vote in Alabama’s upcoming Democratic primary next June, former Birmingham Mayor Richard Arrington endorsed the candidacy for governor of Agricultural Commissioner Ron Sparks on Wednesday on a sunny fall day in…
Monarch Butterfly Migration 2009
Glynn Wilson The migrating monarch butterflies [danaus plexippus], with a little company from the bumble bees on the butterfly bush, made their way through Blount and Jefferson County, Alabama, on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009. [Click on the image for a larger view]. More photos on Facebook.
Delusional in Dixie?
Republican Party On the Outs, Except in the South Washington conventional wisdom has it that the Republican Party is in big trouble nationally, its brand tarnished, and that support for the GOP is now relegated to support from the least educated people in the country, the most hard core racist conservatives in the Deep South.…
Democracy and Capitalism Are NOT One and the Same
A Review of Michael Moore’s ‘Capitalism: A Love Story’ Michael Moore trying to gain entry at GM headquarters in the film Capitalism. The Big Picture by Glynn Wilson If Michael Moore had arrived on the film scene as a conservative Republican activist in 1989, he might be heralded by Fox News today as a major…
Major Tests on Tap for Florida, Alabama
TV Lineup and Lines Below Time Out by Dan Rutledge Wow, can you believe it’s halfway through the 2009 college football season? It seems like just yesterday that teams were playing their first games of the year. Alabama, Auburn and South Carolina are three teams that have exceeded pre-season expectations in the first half of…
