Montgomery Public Schools is holding a series of meetings with parents concerning the closings of four schools . Those closings will impact school zoning across the school system. The public informational meeting scheduled for tomorrow night (May 22) at Lee High School has been postponed and has been rescheduled for June 7. The other meetings, May 24 at Carver High School and May 31 at Park Crossing High…
A SEA OF HUMIDITY: A very warm and muggy air mass has settled into Alabama and it is going no where fast. Unfortunately, it looks like we are stuck with the humidity until the fall, but of course this is nothing new to us in the South. The good news, with the moisture-rich air mass in place it doesn’t take…
A crowd packed the downtown train shed Friday night. Organizers say the 6th annual Riverbend Brew Fest is the largest one yet. There were 52 different breweries represented and over 100 beers for people to sample. “Let everybody come out, try different brews, see what’s going on because the craft beer movement here in Alabama has really taken off. So…
Here is the ALDOT press release: An Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) resurfacing project on Interstate 85 from the East Boulevard interchange to the Taylor Road interchange will begin Monday, May 21, weather permitting. As part of the resurfacing project on the Interstate the I-85 north exit ramp at Eastern Blvd will be extended for queuing traffic, the I-85 south exit…
The local sheriff says as many as 10 people may have been killed during a shooting at a high school near Houston, most of them students. Harris County Sherriff Ed Gonzalez Harris County said there “could be 8 to 10 fatalities” from the shooting Friday morning at Santa Fe High School, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) southeast of Houston. Gonzalez…
Alabama’s unemployment rate is holding steady at 3.8 percent. The governor’s office announced Friday that April’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted jobless rate was the same as the March rate. While unchanged, the rate is well below the rate of 4.8 percent in April 2017. Alabama’s declining jobless rate follows a national trend and is one-tenth of a percent lower than the…
FRIDAY AND THE WEEKEND: A persistence forecast works best as we expect more of the same in our forecast as deep tropical moisture remains in place. Expect occasional showers and storms Friday, Saturday and Sunday and the sky will feature more clouds than sun. Highs will be in the low to mid to upper 80s. Nights will be mainly fair…
Most of us are on social media, and we know the main risks. While we can’t always control what others do, we can do our part to avoid the pitfalls. It’s the information superhighway. Just a click of the mouse or a swipe of a screen and the world is at our fingertips. And so is our personal information… In…
Senior Political Reporter Tim Lennox sat down for a “Face to Face” with Senate District 26 candidate, John Knight. Knight is a current member of the Alabama Legislature. Categories: Face 2 Face
Alabama state Rep. Patricia Todd (D-Birmingham), the lawmaker who made an accusation against Gov. Kay Ivey’s sexuality on Twitter this week, has now lost her upcoming job. Todd was hired to become the executive director of One Orlando Alliance in Orlando, Florida, a gay rights group. But in a statement today, One Orlando Alliance says it has decided not to…
