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1954: A meteorite weighing eight and one-half pounds crashes into Ann Hodges of Sylacauga as she rests on her living room couch. The event gave Hodges a severely bruised hip and instant celebrity status. The meteorite, the first one known to have caused injury to a human, is housed at the Alabama Museum [...]
 Posted by Danny, on November 29th, 2008, at 5:57 pm
 Democratic Agricultural Commissioner Ron Sparks will apparently be a candidate in 2010, according to the website Sparks2010.com that launched today. The site does not specify what office he would seek, though an Anniston Star piece reprinted on the site mentions that Sparks “is sounding more and more like a [gubernatorial] candidate every day.”
Congressman [...]
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1902: The New York Medical Record publishes an account of Dr. Luther Leonidas Hill performing the first open heart surgery in the western hemisphere when he sutured a knife wound in a young boy’s heart. Dr. Hill was the father of Alabama politician and U.S. senator Lister Hill.
1982: Actor, Lucas Black, was [...]
 Posted by Danny, on November 28th, 2008, at 8:45 am
Perhaps you have seen this already, but on Wednesday Press-Register political editor George Talbot considered what a Jo Bonner gubernatorial bid could do to the political landscape in 2010.
An excerpt:
Bonner, 49, is viewed as the sort of diplomatic deal-maker who could bring order to a jumbled field of GOP hopefuls, enabling the party to [...]
 Posted by Danny, on November 28th, 2008, at 8:33 am
 Freedom’s Watch is “pretty much kaput,” according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal this week. Freedom’s Watch was active in the AL-02 and AL-05 Congressional races on behalf of Republicans Jay Love and Wayne Parker respectively.
There is more reading on this here.
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 Posted by Danny, on November 28th, 2008, at 8:20 am
 How much are our Wall Streets bailouts costing us? After we adjust for inflation, the bailouts cost more than the Marshall Plan, the Louisiana Purchase, the race to the moon, the Savings & Loan crisis, the Korean War, the New Deal, the Invasion of Iraq, the Vietnam War, and NASA – combined.
Bloomberg [...]
 Posted by H, on November 28th, 2008, at 6:10 am
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1947: Writer, Gustav Hasford, was born in Rainsville
1981: Bear Bryant became college football’s winningest coach, earning his 315th victory when the Alabama Crimson Tide beat Auburn 28-17
Source: Bhamwiki
 Posted by Danny, on November 27th, 2008, at 10:03 am
 Posted by Danny, on November 27th, 2008, at 8:00 am
 On this day – and every day – may the joys and blessings for which you give thanks be too numerous to count.
Happy Thanksgiving.
 Posted by H, on November 27th, 2008, at 5:10 am
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Small Town News
By waltm on March 19, 2010
The Cuillman Times – Tim James: ‘Government must live within its means’ - an interview
Cleburne News – Payne let go as Police Chief in Heflin – something is going on here
Moulton Advertiser – Hiker finds campaign signs
The Sand Mountain Reporter - Albertville city website defaced – Have you applied all [...]
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Legislative Dispatch
By Sen. Steve French on March 10, 2010
I wish my friend Hinton Mitchem godspeed and good luck after his retirement from public service. Hinton, on Monday, announced what many had suspected — he will not seek re-election. I remember meeting Hinton for the first time while I was a student at Auburn University. He served the people of his [...]
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By Rep. Cam Ward on March 8, 2010
 Here is a quick preview of the upcoming week in Montgomery. This week will be a standard legislative schedule for the House. We will be in session on Tuesday and Thursday with committee meetings scheduled for Wednesday.
The House will take up a ten minute calendar this week. A ten minute calendar is [...]
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Purple Dot Connection
By Natalie Davis on March 15, 2010
TOP TEN INDICATIONS OF MARCH MADNESS
10. Eric Massa inviting us to ask the 10,000 Navy men he served with whether he is gay.
9. Larry Langford hitting the jackpot 33 times in one day and not remembering it.
8. Ron Sparks being able to make payments on a $500,000 loan with an income of $80,000.
7. Artur Davis [...]
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Back in the Day...Union Avenue in Ozark in the 1920s
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