Oh I agree totally on the death of major papers in Alabama. Birmingham and Huntsville now only publish three days a week. Neither can sustain any profit and need to utilize mostly national news to fill up their columns. Most people have given up totally, and rely upon local network news journalists. It’s almost comical how the views of the guys or gals running the newspaper business in the state have given up and just sell gimmick-news.
As for Birmingham....if you go back to around 2011...they had a guy who was down in the city for some contract repair work and took his car over to a local car wash to clear it on some Saturday morning. Got shot dead there in the car wash.
Being from the state....I’d say it’s the most corrupted place you could possibly imagine. These guys in Birmingham were bankrupt....yet asking for hundreds of thousands to fly like fifty of their folks to some national city conference for a week, in Alaska back three years ago. Totally broke, and they were still trying to spend money that didn’t exist.
Yes, the guy in the car wash, that’s who I’m remembering. He was here working and his wife was flying in to Bham to see him while he was here on a job and he was killed right before her plane landed.