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If you expected a proposed constitutional amendment that eventually would take away 23% of the City of Gadsden's budget to go unmentioned by City Council members, you were wrong. For some, including Mayor Sherman Guyton and council member Jason Wilson, there was ire over Sen. Andrew Jones, R-Centre, launching the idea of a phaseout of the occupational tax at a press conference on Monday without extending the "common courtesy" of letting leaders in some affected municipalities know about it. Jones announced the proposal that would affect Gadsden, Attalla, Glencoe, Rainbow City and Southside �...

Gadsden City Council member Jason Wilson on Tuesday introduced a resolution opposing both a proposed rendering plant and municipal tax abatements for it, but four members of the council voted to table the resolution "indefinitely," setting off heated conversation and allegations about the contentious issue. When Wilson spoke of the measure at the pre-council meeting, he said he probably would not ask for consideration at the subsequent council meeting, because he didn't think he could get the unanimous consent required to consider it. Council President Cynthia Toles indicated that if he didn...

During Tuesday's Gadsden City Council meeting, council member Jason Wilson reminded people that the proposed Pilgrim's Pride rendering plant came from the State of Alabama, which first suggested it for Etowah County's Little Canoe Creek Mega-Site. Wilson said the story of why the plant didn't go there varied — it was too expensive to get water service there, or that the County Commission had considered it and decided it wasn't right for the site. "But they were allowed to go through the process," Wilson said, of considering the pros and cons of the project, to visit a plant using the same k...