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World’s Longest Yard Sale
The grassy shoulders of the Lookout Mountain Parkway are littered with everything from furniture and electronics to handmade quilts and lawn ornaments. But the residents of the houses that dot this usually calm 2 lane highway are hardly complaining: Instead, they have set up concession stands to sell lemonade, polish sausages, and funnel cakes to […]
Youth Workforce Development
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Old Fashioned Market
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Sock Capital of the World
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Bank Merger
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Drug Reimportation: Promise or Peril?
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John Grisham’s Mickey
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Protecting Alabama’s Innocent, Part 2
The downtown office of the Department of Human Resources is a cold, desolate looking place. Fluorescent lights flicker overhead, casting a sterile glow over the room, with its hard plastic chairs and cool tile floor. You can see PBS kids programming through the snow on the t.v., parenting magazines are scattered about the battered magazine […]
Protecting Alabama’s Innocent, Part 1
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Food Safety
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Fast Food Trends
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Scholar’s Bowl
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Nursing Shortage
Scores of young nurses learn their IVs from their catheters each year at the University of Alabama at Birmingham hospital. But UAB’s nursing school has turned away nearly 100 qualified applicants in the last year because it didn’t have the people to teach them. Associate Dean Elizabeth Stullenbarger co-chairs a regional committee that surveys nursing faculty […]
Alabama Bluegrass
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Living with Arthritis: Joseph’s Story
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If Money Grew on Trees
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Philanthropy: Venture Philanthropy
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Philanthropy: Transfer of Wealth
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Medical Residents: Underpaid/Overworked
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Hormone Replacement Therapy: Risks & Benefits
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Education Budget Cuts
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Inside Interpreting
For several days, your back has been killing you. You make an appointment with a doctor, camp out in the waiting room. And finally, when you’re ushered back to the doctor’s office, he greets you in Spanish. That’s how it feels for the thousands of Hispanic immigrants in Alabama who speak limited English. Until recently, […]
Child Care Crunch
Carol Pierson is a fighter. After escaping a violent marriage, she fought to get off welfare and find a good job at a local university. ‘I work in the human genetics department. I’ve been there a little over 2 years. I love my job. I enjoy working there.’ After taxes, health insurance and mandatory retirement […]
Christmas Tamales
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Unclaimed Baggage
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Carillon: The Bells of the Season
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The Road Less Traveled
The 94-mile highway known as Corridor X has been on the drawing board for three decades, but now, transportation officials say it is only a few years from being complete. For the small businesses ‘ the tiny mom and pop restaurants, hotels and service stations sprinkled along the old highway the interstate will parallel […]
For the Birds
On a quiet Sunday morning, the parking lot of the National Guard Armory is already filled with cars and vans and RVs, bearing tags as far away as Louisiana and Texas. A family reunion, maybe? Well, not exactly. The visitors who are flocking to this sprawling space are members of a unique subculture: bird enthusiasts. […]
Race for City Hall
With a record-setting number of candidates … 18 in all … many Birmingham voters say they’re having a hard time telling the players, even with a program. WBHM invited two local journalists who are covering the race to give us a perspective on what’s at stake for those seeking the mayor’s office and on the […]
Recycled/Remade: Folk Art at the BMA
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The Burning Bus
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40 Years of Civil Rights
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