A story I’ve followed thru the Cleburne News keeps getting more and more interesting. The town of Edwardsville has annexed large portions of non-contiguous land and created Special Development Districts, which offer the land owner relief from all state and county taxes in return for deeding 1% of the land to [...]
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 Posted by Danny, on December 8th, 2009, at 10:46 am Today’s special election for Birmingham’s fourth mayor in months is being held on a rainy day. Or perhaps the heavens are crying over the whole affair. WadeonBirmingham has “Last-Minute Thoughts on a Hurry-up Mayoral Election” that is worth checking out for those with interest in the matter. I’ll be surprised if Patrick Cooper isn’t easily [...] Posted by Danny, on November 16th, 2009, at 2:35 pm Speaking of the Birmingham mayor’s race… Richard Arrington apparently will not find out if the once-formidable Citizens’ Coalition could propel him into the mayor’s office again, telling the Birmingham News that he will not run. Many public figures are not self-aware enough to know when their time has come and gone. Is [...] Posted by Danny, on November 16th, 2009, at 1:22 pm Don’t miss Natalie Davis considering the lay of the land after the recent national elections, and she looks ahead to the Birmingham mayor’s race. She managed to wiggle the post on to the site at the end of the week before the site got completely uncooperative, and I didn’t want you to overlook it. In [...] Posted by Danny, on November 11th, 2009, at 11:48 am Tomorrow at 10 am, Scott Douglas, Executive Director of Greater Birmingham Ministries, will announce his candidacy to be mayor of Birmingham tomorrow at Kelly Ingram Park at the statue of Martin Luther King, Jr. Interim mayor Carole Smitherman will run. Patrick Cooper, runner-up in the last election, is fast out of the gate [...] Posted by Danny, on November 4th, 2009, at 4:19 pm From Dealbook at nytimes.com:
Posted by Danny, on November 3rd, 2009, at 8:39 amHere’s a bit of an eyebrow raiser… Jefferson County Commissioner William Bell is strongly considering a run for Congressional District 7, the seat Artur Davis is vacating for his gubernatorial run. Bell is on everyone’s list as a potential candidate in the upcoming special election for mayor in Birmingham, and he may yet announce [...] Posted by Danny, on November 2nd, 2009, at 12:11 pmDon’t miss Natalie Davis’s “First Thoughts on the Race for Birmingham’s Next Mayor” here in the Purple Dot Connection. The Birmingham News has a good run-down of the situation here. Sounds like Patrick Cooper is likely to be in. Larry Langford’s conviction will dissipate much of whatever bad feeling might have lingered [...] Posted by Danny, on October 28th, 2009, at 4:41 pm Birmingham City Council President Carole Smitherman, wife of Alabama Senate President pro tempore Rodger Smitherman (D), will become interim mayor of the state’s largest city now that Langford has been convicted. Next month, the city council will elect its council president for the new term, and that person (perhaps Smitherman still) will be the [...] Posted by Danny, on October 28th, 2009, at 4:30 pm The jury has returned a verdict in the federal corruption trial of Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford. Guilty on all counts. Related Articles: Posted by Danny, on October 19th, 2009, at 11:25 amAt first I wondered why Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford would want his trial moved to Tuscaloosa since he won a landslide victory in Birmingham just two years ago, winning in a 10 person field without a runoff. But since everyone I meet from Birmingham assumes Langford is going to jail, I’ll concede a [...] Posted by Danny, on October 7th, 2009, at 12:17 pm For example, this article from a couple of weeks back on the (mis)handling of Birmingham’s deficit by the Mayor and the City Council is a most interesting and painful [...] Posted by Danny, on October 7th, 2009, at 12:03 pm If you are interested in a rundown on yesterday’s City Council runoff results from the state’s biggest city, Kyle Whitmire of The Birmingham Weekly is happy to tell you what it all means. Short version: But [...] Posted by Danny, on August 25th, 2009, at 11:38 am State Rep. Terry Spicer (D – Elba) is in contract negotiations to become the Superintendent of Elba City Schools. That gets him out of the two-year college system, where he has been assistant to the President of Enterprise Ozark Community College, and into at least a slightly less politically sensitive position. Posted by Danny, on August 18th, 2009, at 9:49 amLooks like the vise is tightening for Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford. He can’t afford to pay his lawyer, and co-defendant Bill Blount is changing his plea to guilty today. Co-defendant Al LaPierre has done the same already, leaving Langford alone to go to trial. The three were named in [...] |
ChangeI 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 [...] Ten Minutes in the House, Senate Moves On 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. Back in the Day... Tent City at Camp Sheridan near Montgomery, ca 1918 |
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