There’s a good chance many people around Birmingham had never heard of the city’s Industrial Development Board until last Friday. That’s when news surfaced that the board approved $3.2 billion in tax abatements over 30 years for a controversial data cente... See more
I’m in a car with Jun Ebersol, a paleontologist based at the McWane Science Center in Birmingham, and on a recent morning we made our way to South Alabama to look for fossils. “It’s a really remarkable area down there from a fossil standpoint,” Ebersol sa... See more
Crowds gathered outside the Alabama State House Monday afternoon to express their opposition to a special session, which began the same day, focusing on a contingency plan in case the U.S. Supreme Court lifts an injunction blocking use of a Republican-bac... See more
