Do you think Barack Obama has what it takes to best Hillary Clinton? Will Fred Thompson come from behind to overtake Rudolph Giuliani and John McCain? Or if you’re not into politics, how about America

We survived our first crisis at Mixed Media, although for a few hours there we considered self-immolation as a serious option. So what went wrong? We still don’t know, except it seems Wordpress crappe

Birmingham News investigative reporter Brett Blackledge may have won the Pulitzer Prize last week, but he lost the beauty contest. In a snarky post on her Huffington Post blog, Colleen Werthmann rank

JeffCo money problems. Joel watch continues with special prosecutor. And the Evil Empire nurses a well-earned hangover. This morning the Jefferson County Commission promises a possible double feature

If you’re making $5.15 an hour, don’t count on a raise anytime soon. The Alabama House Commerce Committee has sent a bill to raise the minimum wage to a subcommittee this week, effectively pigeon-holi

Alabama’s political circles are abuzz today, after Agriculture Commissioner Ron Sparks yesterday publicly pondered a campaign to unseat Sen. Jeff Sessions. On DailyKos, Sparks said that it was definit

Here at Birmingham Weekly, we always like to stay one step ahead of the politicians, so it irked us some when we found a few of them had beaten us to this whole blogging thing. At least now, we won’t

The Birmingham News Co. can’t demolish its historic former home just yet.Two weeks ago, the Birmingham Design Review Committee (BDRC) said it could no longer deny the News a demolition permit because,