http://wbhm.org NPR News and Classical Music en Copyright 2005, wbhm.org webmaster@wbhm.org http://www.wbhm.org/pics/smalllogo.gif http://www.wbhm.org WBHM 90.3 FM This month on Tapestry, the past, present and future of radio. http://wbhm.org/Tapestry/Sept03-10.html Our weekly segment features The Birmingham News columnist John Archibald, discussing the city politic (and county and state politic too). Instead of being unplugged as he is in the newspaper, we offer him a bullhorn. Sort of. http://wbhm.org/News/2010/archibald.html Each week we'll hear an update on political happenings in Birmingham and Jefferson County from Kyle Whitmire. http://wbhm.org/News/2010/Whitmire.html What are you doing to help the environment? Have you ditched the plastic water bottles and carry a reusable one instead. Maybe you bike to work a couple days a week. According to a recent study, there's sometimes a big gap between what we say we should do and what we actually do. http://wbhm.org/News/2010/greenbehavior.html The Birmingham marketplace is connected by people who have to grapple with numbers and projections and spin. We try and slice through the psychobabble that can be business news with our occasional segment featuring the editor of the Birmingham Business Journal. http://wbhm.org/News/2010/Magic_City_Marketplace.html What are the essentials of life? Food, water, and shelter. And to get those you have to have some kind of paying work or be enrolled in a government assistance program. But for the working poor (many of whom don't qualify for government assistance) even the basics can be too expensive. We'll explore this today (8/27) at noon on WBHM's On The Line: The Price of Poverty. http://wbhm.org/News/2010/PriceOfPoverty.html In times of economic instability many people turn to friends and family. But there's a new twist on that practice and it's called Time Banking. Members of time banks earn and spend "time" dollars by using their skills for other members. http://wbhm.org/News/2010/timebanks.html