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 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 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 Bradley Byrne and Robert Bentley have just a few days left to convince voters they should be the Republican nominee for Alabama governor. Tuesday is the runoff election. It's been a hot contest at a time when Alabama's weak economy underlies virtually every issue. WBHM's Andrew Yeager spoke with State Representative Robert Bentley who says legislation he authored in the last legislative session is helping put some Alabamians back to work. http://wbhm.org/News/2010/govrunoff.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 When Vestavia Hills announced it was building a Library in the Forest residents cheered. The old library is small and not very inviting. The new one will be big, airy and environmentally-friendly. But it's not without challenges. http://wbhm.org/News/2010/VHlibrary.html More travelers will hit the roads this holiday weekend. AAA expects fourth of July travel across the south to rise about 11% over last year. Many of those tourists will book hotel rooms. And that means hotel lodging taxes for local cities. But Birmingham doesn't think it's getting all it's due from online travel sites. So it's suing. WBHM's Andrew Yeager reports. http://wbhm.org/News/2010/hoteltax.html This month on Tapestry, the 50th anniversary of To Kill A Mockingbird. Also, a look at the new library in Vestavia Hills, a civil rights pioneer you might not know about, and Birmingham band VASA. http://wbhm.org/Tapestry/July02-10.html