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Whitmire: Different year, same old fight, but a new champion for open government
Updated Mar 17, 2021;
Posted Mar 15, 2021
Alabama ranks dead-last for public records access. State Sen. Arthur Orr has sponsored a bill to fix that. HVT
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This is an opinion column.
Alabama doesn’t work like other states on a lot of things, but especially when it comes to public records.
Last year, my colleague Amy Yurkanin had a question: How much was the University of Alabama at Birmingham paying a private company to recruit students from foreign countries?
Her question led to a public information request to the university. She would like to see the contract, she said.
The complete article can be found at AlabamaNewsCenter.com.
By Bob Shepard
Research funding to the University of Alabama at Birmingham from the National Institutes of Health exceeded $325 million in 2020. The university received $325,573,502, according to the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research. That placed UAB 27th in the list of universities receiving funding from the NIH. Among public universities, UAB ranked 12th.
The largest amount of funding, $269,911,974, went to investigators in the School of Medicine. This was an increase of more than $13 million over 2019, good for 24th overall among the nation’s medical schools.
“This is the second year in a row that UAB research funding from NIH has been over $300 million, reaffirming UAB’s place as a leading academic research institution,” said Chris Brown, Ph.D., vice president for Research at UAB. “In addition to serving as a major economic driver for Birmingham and Alabama, this research funding leads to discoverie
Here s How to Compost for a Vibrant and Thriving Garden Veranda 3/15/2021 Lauren Wicks
Matthew Nesbitt, owner and operator of Field Culture Compost in Birmingham, Ala., talked about Central Alabama s need for a large-scale composting service for years, but he never expected to be the one to revolutionize it. After 11 years of working in restaurants and learning from the local farmers that brought in fresh produce and meat each day, he became passionate about gardening, farming, and agriculture, which led him to an internship with Serenbe Farms, an organic vegetable farm outside Atlanta. That internship gave him a deep knowledge of soil health, composting, and its vast impact on our planet.
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After shrinking for decades, America’s private sector labor unions could get a shot in the arm later this month as 5,800 workers for one of America’s biggest employers, Amazon.com Inc, vote by mail on whether to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU).
The outcome could have far-reaching implications, not just for workers at the Amazon Fulfillment Center in Bessemer, Alabama, but also for the company as a whole and the growing U.S. e-commerce sector that so far has fended off most labor organizing.
While Amazon touts higher wages and more generous benefit packages than those offered by many other service industry employers, worker Dale Richardson told VOA he voted to unionize.