The Bates Street project
Much like our own properties that eventually require some reinvestment due to an aging roof, failing furnace or crumbling driveway,...
Apr 23, 2019
Bates project direction wrong
We write as co-authors from two dramatically different points of view. For 18 years, we have disagreed with each other fundamentally on...
Apr 23, 2019
Politician PR handout
It is literally amazing that you appear to be printing, without attribution, some PR handout from a politician, or something that must be...
Apr 23, 2019
Potential great harm
I live in Birmingham and receive your publication. I really enjoyed David Hohendorf’s article on “Progressives” (April/Downtown). Very...
Apr 23, 2019
Disappointing Okma story
Thank you for your story by Lisa Brody covering the problems at the Okma International Academy (Downtown/March). Downtown is one of the...
Mar 26, 2019
Flawed city process
I have been an aggressive advocate of redeveloping Birmingham's N. Bates St. site for many years. I have stood atop the Old Woodward...
Mar 26, 2019
The Woodward-Bates project
It continues to amaze (me that) the city of Birmingham is so willing to give up precious real estate, instead increasing the amount of...
Mar 26, 2019
Water loss coverage
Very good article by Lisa Brody (Wasted Water/ March). Very thorough and fact-based. I want to thank you for this – it is too rare we see...
Mar 26, 2019
The 19th Amendment
Susan B. Anthony, a powerful voice in the women’s suffrage movement, once said: “There will never be complete equality until women...
Mar 26, 2019
Climate change skeptics
I'm going to assume you're journalists without an agenda and are actually looking for the truth. So before you get too many eggs in the...
Mar 26, 2019







