Jefferson County Commissioner Lashunda Scales and local businessman Chris Woods are running for mayor of Birmingham.
Scales, elected to the commission in 2018 where she serves as president pro tempore, announced her candidacy for mayor this week. She previously served on the Birmingham City Council from 2009 to 2018 and has worked in the public relations and marketing arena for more than two decades.
Woods, a local construction executive and former Auburn University football player, ran for mayor in 2017. He announced earlier this month that we would run again. Before starting C.W. Woods Contracting Services Inc. in 1989, Woods was a four-year letterman with the Auburn University football team and later went on to play a brief professional stint with the Los Angeles Raiders alongside former Auburn teammate Bo Jackson.
The Other Side: We can forget being united
Kelvin Wade: The Other Side
The theme of new President Joseph R. Biden’s inauguration is “America United.” After the past four years and the Jan. 6 insurrection, the theme seems downright laughable.
Surely, when he was vice president, he watched President Barack Obama repeatedly try and kick the football held by Mitch McConnell, only to land flat on his back. Are we really going to try the unity thing again after four years of American carnage?
Unity is especially hard for the losing side.
I’m reminded of something that happened 29 years ago today. It was Sunday, Jan. 20, 1991, and I was over at my friend Mickens’ parents’ house in Suisun City with a bunch of friends cheering on the Los Angeles Raiders in the AFC Championship game versus the Buffalo Bills. The Bills crushed the Raiders 51-3 and after the game, Kelly Farney said we had to support the Bills in the Super Bowl since they were the champions of the AFC and had rig