T­here's an old saying in politics that when you throw darts at a board, you better be sure you're going to hit the bullseye....

The long-running saga over how to redevelop the YMCA building, purchased as a new home for NEXT, the city's senior services organization,...

Modern suburbia has long been a paean to our European forefathers, with lush green lawns, perfectly manicured boxwood hedges, and a...

The city of Birmingham is at a crossroads regarding the longtime Village Fair, held for the last 60 years the last weekend of May/the...

Sometimes too much of a good thing is just way too much, and the city of Birmingham is faced with just such a conundrum of its own...

The city of Birmingham and its two-year effort to develop a community center is at a critical juncture. In simple terms, what started out...

Treated wastewater sludge, also known as biosolids under the Clean Water Act, is the byproduct of thousands of municipal wastewater...

The proposed community and senior center project in the city of Birmingham that has been on the drawing board for the past two years...

The time has long passed for the city of Birmingham to settle once and for all the decades long argument over who truly has the authority...

Late last fall Downtown Newsmagazine checked with local municipalities and neighboring communities to see what officials were doing in...