Start your morning with the latest news and stories from Alabama. Then, hear the stories behind the stories as Ike Morgan is joined by voices from the AL.com newsroom and beyond for deep dives on pressing topics, news quizzes and a whole lot of fun.
An interstate tragedy. A bill declaring college athletes can be paid for their name, image and likeness. Alabama legislative session takes another run at legalized gambling. A program to pardon marijuana misdemeanors... with very few people partaking.
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April 13, 2021
Fighting tumors with a virus, full capacity at Trash Pandas games, and booze all the way to your door.
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April 12, 2021
We'll look at the Amazon union vote, a bill on how to spend money that once went to Confederate veterans, raw sewage overflows in Lower Alabama and the state's weather outlook.
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April 09, 2021
Counting the unionization vote at for the Bessemer Amazon facility. Passing a bill offering lifetime concealed-carry permits. Predicting the hurricane season. Bringing an elephant statue to Bryant-Denny Stadium. Bear Bryant's houndstooth hat up fo...
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April 08, 2021
A scandal affecting the 2022 U.S. Senate race. The UK variant taking over COVID cases. Girls flag football becoming a sanctioned high school sport.
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April 07, 2021
A school choice bill, a city's mask mandate, COVID money, Alabama house votes down bill making it illegal to hold a phone while driving.
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April 06, 2021
Rickey Smiley on Birmingham crime. Health officials on laminated vaccine cards. Entertainment districts in Mountain Brook. Simulated childbirth on America's Funniest Home Videos. Coal miners union reach a tentative agreement.
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April 05, 2021
We have a couple of passings to share, a coal-miner strike and this week's weather.
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April 02, 2021
Another spike in gun demand, a street preacher told to dial it down a little, a bill that would limit the government's ability to pick who's essential and who's not, and an Alvin's Island shark making people nervous.
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April 01, 2021
Another Capitol update; a reason to not turn your COVID masks into grease rags just yet; John Christy leaving the EPA; and regular folks like us driving around the track at Talladega.
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March 31, 2021
How we now rank on COVID vaccine delivery, more politicians questioning the Space Command decision, one of the Bear's hats, and Auburn can fish again soon.
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March 30, 2021
Ivey vs. Biden on mask mandates, tally time in the Amazon/union vote, the medical marijuana push and winning on the Drew Barrymore Show.
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March 29, 2021
Gun bills, Amazon vs. the union and this week's weather.
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March 26, 2021
Spring weather batters Alabama. A journalist's own home was hit by a tornado while he continued to report about it, and check on his wife. Dollar General coming to Alabama. Auburn university sophomore bit by a shark and his arm rescued by surgeon....
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March 25, 2021
2021 US Senate race details. Excuse me, is that an iguana in your toilet? More details on Jill Biden's visit to Alabama. NCAA women's basketball.
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March 24, 2021
Alabama graduation rates in recent years. The real March Madness: It's Alabama food bracket time. NCAA women's basketball.
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March 23, 2021
COVID vaccines, free doughnuts, plans to Rock the South, and the First Lady visits the state.
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March 22, 2021
How crowded one ICU became, how old we're becoming, and how the weather might do us this week.
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March 19, 2021
A bill-passing frenzy in Montgomery, a rocket test in Huntsville and notes on hurricane season.
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March 18, 2021
Tornado outbreak, another state lottery push, and why bradford pear trees smell bad.
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March 17, 2021
Legislative updates, rising gas prices and a happy nursing-home reunion.
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March 16, 2021
Standardized testing, the passing of a professor and prolific religion scholar, and great white sharks tracking off the Gulf Coast.
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March 15, 2021
Alabama men's basketball wins the SEC Tournament, help is coming for wastewater problems in part of the state, and severe weather may be on the way to Alabama.
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March 13, 2021
The "new normal" is a bad phrase that was never true: Reflections on a year of COVID.
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March 12, 2021
Lawmakers voting on yoga, bond denied in a U.S. Capitol breach case, and what the economic rebounds looks like so far.