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Birmingham City Council Mayor Announces 2025 Budget Adds, Including 3% Raise, Money for Sidewalk Repairs, Traffic Calming and Police. Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin on Tuesday announced long-awaited 2025 budget amendments that include increased funding for sidewalk repairs and traffic calming efforts as well as a 3% across-the-board raise for city employees.
Martin Luther King’s 1963 Birmingham arrest spurred a Supreme …
2022年10月19日 · The case is Walker v. City of Birmingham, which ruled on the legal principles that allowed Bull Conner and Birmingham to jail Martin Luther King Jr. on Good Friday, 1963. Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy explains why the case continues to influence legal thinking during these tumultuous times.
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Virginia Martin is BirminghamWatch’s lead news editor.She was political editor of The Birmingham News, where she directed local, state and national government coverage. She also led reporting of health and the environment at The News, where she worked from 1988 to 2012, and was an editor on coverage of Alabama’s two-year college system that won a 2007 Pulitzer Prize.
Birmingham to Try New Recycling and Trash Pick up Process
2020年2月11日 · Backed by Public Works Director Walt Gibbons, Mayor Woodfin talks about a recycling pilot project. Feb. 11, 2020. (Source: Solomon Crenshaw Jr.)
Meet the Republican Congressional District 6 Candidates
2024年3月1日 · Three men are vying for the Republican nomination to represent Alabama’s 6 th Congressional District – incumbent Rep. Gary Palmer and challengers Kenneth McFeeters and Gerrick Wilkins. Here’s a bit about them. Kenneth McFeeters. Kenneth McFeeters, 63, who is also known as “Abe” McFeeters was born in Montreal, Canada, and grew up in Birmingham.
Chuantae Brown - BirminghamWatch
2024年3月1日 · Chuantae Brown. Jefferson County District Judge, Place 11 – Bessemer, Criminal Division. Chuantae Brown. Party: Democrat Residence: Bessemer Political experience: Unsuccessfully ran for district court, 2018. Professional experience: Is assistant district attorney for the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office.Former criminal defense trial attorney, Jefferson County Public Defender’s ...
Commission Sends $1 Billion Budget to Thursday’s Agenda
2023年9月13日 · Jefferson County Commission President Jimmie Stephens gave Commissioner Joe Knight a hearty handshake at the end of a nearly two-hour committee meeting of the commission, congratulating the finance chairman as the proposed 2024 fiscal budget went to the agenda of Thursday’s commission meeting.
The History of the Birmingham City Schools - BirminghamWatch
2019年6月2日 · A timeline of Birmingham city schools. 1873: Board of School Trustees established 1874: Free School Established (renamed The Powell School 1883) 1883: John H. Phillips, superintendent (First Birmingham Schools superintendent, considered the architect of the first school system) Read m
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Phillips Academy - BirminghamWatch
2019年6月6日 · Phillips Academy (Source: Birmingham City Schools) Students: 703 Teachers: 41 Education Report Card 2017-2018: A (92). Failing Schools List: None. J.H. Phillips Academy is housed in the reconstructed space of one of Birmingham’s oldest school buildings but is one of the youngest schools in the Birmingham City Schools.