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Scientists To Use Locks To Ferry Fish

Friday, June 6th, 2008

This is cool!
Scientists have a plan to stop the greatest chain of aquatic extinctions in the United States, which began when Alabama’s rivers were dammed in the 20th century and river creatures were cut off from everything they needed.
Scientists say they can reunite parts of the Alabama River system, using locks built for navigation to [...]

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Express Yourself

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

NBC-13 wants to know what we think about an elevated Highway 280. Actually, the poll question is, “Will an elevated highway solve the 280 traffic problem?”
I think a world of no. Thought so before, but rapidly increasing gas prices make the idea of encouraging more development further from the city center even worse. [...]

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Getting Off Cheap

Friday, January 4th, 2008

Remember this post from about three weeks ago, all about how the Alabama Department of Transportation had botched a road construction project and contaminated Mobile’s water supply with massive amounts of sediment? And how the intrepid Alabama Department of Environmental Management didn’t even notice till newspaper reporters and Mississippi officials pointed out the problem?
Then [...]

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