Birmingham Blues

Patrick Cooper has withdrawn his challenge to Larry Langford’s election as mayor of Birmingham.  I’m curious to know why he’s done this now, after he had filed a notice of appeal to the Alabama Supreme Court.  Was he persuaded that there was no way to win?  Was he intimidated by rabid Larry supporters?  Or does [...]

Our older granddog is not thrilled about her new sibling. Nestlé is so tiny (for now, anyway), and she wants a mama dog in the worst way.

Here’s Nestlé trying to give Meg a kiss. Meg is so not interested.
 

Meg gives Nestlé the glare of death.
 

How can she resist this sweet face?
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UPDATE: More information here. The bulk of the payment ($14.2 million) will come from HealthSouth; Andrews will pay $450,000 and Lemak $250,000. Sounds like the doctors were relatively small spuds in the potato field — and HealthSouth was successful in blaming the whole thing on a “previous administration”.
Yow!
The U.S. attorney’s office announced [...]

Have you been wondering why the Birmingham News has rolled over for new mayor Larry Langford? Here’s a little insight.
…Last week, after the new mayor spoke to the Birmingham Rotary Club, Langford had a heated discussion with News Publisher Victor Hanson III. Hanson won’t discuss the conversation, but if the scuttlebutt from his own [...]

Ever wonder what Democrats in the Birmingham area are up to? Fresh off sigificant electoral victories in 2006, local organizations kept up their hard work this year, and Over the Mountain Democrats were right there with them. Here’s a list of accomplishments for 2007 (full disclosure — yeah, I’m a member):

Ministers’ Caucus [...]

Republicans who are pushing an initiative to change the way electoral votes are awarded in California have conceded that they don’t have the financial backing to get it on the June 2008 ballot.
Sacramento consultant Dave Gilliard, the campaign manager, said that even if a financial angel were to shower the campaign with $1 million, [...]

On November 29th, Chuck Geiss at the Black & White, not exactly a bastion of wild-eyed liberalism, pointed out serious problems with the proposed route for Birmingham’s Northern Beltline.
Concerns that the construction of the Northern Beltline may harm the environmentally sensitive headwaters of the Cahaba River, which supplies 60 percent of Birmingham’s drinking water, have [...]

A Georgia man was freed from prison yesterday after DNA tests proved he was not guilty of a 27-year-old rape. John Jerome White was convicted on the basis of the victim’s eyewitness testimony and sentenced to life in prison. He was paroled in 1990, but two subsequent convictions, one for drugs and one [...]

While I’ve been goofing off instead of blogging, I’ve been following the writers’ strike. It seems that the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers forgot to buy up all the extensions that go with its domain name. Someone (a creative writer perhaps?) snapped up the .com and put up a really funny [...]

Last week the US Supreme Court stayed the execution of Thomas Arthur pending its ruling on several cases challenging execution by lethal injection. The Birmingham News points out that this delay gives Gov. Riley yet another opportunity to order testing of DNA evidence in the case, something Riley has so far — and inexplicably [...]