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It is said, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” That is why the photograph is associated with this commentary. The depiction is quite disturbing when talking airport and aircraft safety.   This visual was taken early this year over an animal parts rendering plant in Gastonia, North Carolina. The picture shows hundreds of turkey vultures hovering over the rendering plant in a virtual “fish ball”. The “fish ball” towered as far as I could see. My granddaughter, Breanna, also was a witness to this dance of putrescible, waste-eating scavengers.  I especially want the Gadsden Air...

The Gadsden City Council went into executive session during its pre-council meeting on Tuesday to discuss the “authorizing of engagement” for a legal firm.   The council was in executive session for roughly an hour to talk about hiring Ford, Howard and Cornett, P.C. of Gadsden.  Council President Cynthia Toles said after the council returned to open session and before its regular meeting that the issue had simply been “presented” and no immediate action would be taken.  No specifics were discussed, but the city in the past week has suffered legal setbacks in Etowah Co...

Attorney Christie Knowles on Thursday in a social media post struck back at Gadsden Mayor Sherman Guyton's comments during Tuesday's City Council meeting. Knowles said Guyton "essentially accused" her or her law firm of using a computer to steal "confidential" documents linked to a proposed Pilgrim's Pride rendering plant in Gadsden. It's not true, she said in a Facebook post, and insisted the mayor knows that. Guyton used the mayor/council comments time at the meeting to question where Knowles' firm got what's been described as a Memorandum of Understanding from Guyton to Pilgrim's Pride. C...

Knowles and attorney Joshua Sullivan argued Thursday against motions to dismiss two lawsuits.  One of the suits was filed on behalf of Dynamic Collision, challenging the zoning of the proposed site. The other was filed by Choice Fabricators and Advance Etowah, alleging a failure to provide documents related to the plant from the City of Gadsden, Gadsden-Etowah Industrial Development Authority and the Gadsden Water Works and Sewer Board. Knowles argued that documents she's received — limited ones from the Water Works and some from other sources — indicate there is more information out t...

For more than 90 minutes Tuesday evening, Alabama Department of Environmental Management Agency representatives heard from 14 people who registered to speak regarding an air permit sought by Pilgrim's Pride for a proposed rendering plant on Steele Station Road. Outside the Downtown Civic Center, a crowd gathered with "Stop the Rendering Plant" and other signs, chanting "Just say no" and other slogans as people entered the back of the center for the hearing. Opponents of the rendering plant staged another event next door at the Pitman Theatre, with the anticipation that people would address t...