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• Alabaster delays opening of new $88 million high school

  05-05-2017 19:06
  
  Alabaster City Schools has delayed the opening of the new $88 million Thompson High School until December 2017.
  
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• Women Learn Fishing, Conservation Skills at Tagging Workshop

  15-10-2024 16:20
  
  Sarah Gibbs and Crystal Hightower hope last week's Ladies Tagging Workshop at the Weeks Bay Tonsmeire Resource Center is just the beginning of a trend on the Alabama Gulf Coast of female anglers gathering on a regular basis to hone their fishing skills and connect with fellow anglers – and sometimes help with research. Gibbs, a PhD student with Dr. Steven Scyphers in the Stokes School of Mari...
  
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• With student loan forgiveness programs in limbo, here's how some borrowers may find relief

  15-10-2024 16:20
  
  With Biden's student loan forgiveness plan in limbo, here's how some borrowers may find relief In late August 2024, the latest chapter in the ongoing student debt forgiveness debate came to a close—for now—when the Supreme Court announced it would uphold a block on the Biden-Harris administration's sweeping student loan repayment plan. With an unprecedented $1.74 trillion in collect...
  
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• Wisconsin legalized ballot drop boxes, but some local officials are fighting them

  15-10-2024 16:20
  
  Months after the Wisconsin Supreme Court legalized them, ballot drop boxes remain a source of deep division among public officials in communities across the battleground state, Votebeat reports. While city officials in Madison and Milwaukee embraced them early for the August primary, several communities in Waukesha and Milwaukee counties have opted out of using drop boxes for November's...
  
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• Why hunting matters: How hunters keep economies thriving and prevent environmental catastrophe

  15-10-2024 16:20
  
  Believe it or not, if hunting were a company, it would be a Fortune 500 giant. In 2020, hunters and sport shooters pumped a whopping $149 billion into the U.S. economy. That's not pocket change—it's enough to make hunting the 52nd largest company by retail sales if it were listed on the Fortune 500, LandTrust reports. This money was spent on equipment such as shotguns and ammunition, tri...
  
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• Who stands to gain the most from new federal overtime rules?

  15-10-2024 16:20
  
  New Biden administration rules have raised the maximum salary eligible for overtime pay and put in place a mechanism that ensures the salary threshold keeps pace with rising wages and prices. As of July 1, 2024, hourly workers making the equivalent of $43,888 a year are eligible for overtime pay, up from $35,568, which will increase to $58,656 on Jan. 1, 2025. By 2027, the levels will be updated...
  
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• Which items has inflation impacted the most?

  15-10-2024 16:20
  
  There's the inflation you see, and then there's the inflation you feel. Put differently, while inflation is a perennial news item, it's not always as present in the daily lives of Americans as it has been in the years since the pandemic. After more than four years of unprecedented swings in supply, production, and prices, consumers have both seen and felt inflation. While they have...
  
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• Where people are using the most FHA loans

  15-10-2024 16:20
  
  A Federal Housing Administration mortgage loan is designed for first-time homebuyers who may need less stringent requirements to qualify, and is often available with down payments as low as 3.5%. However, these loans usually require an additional property inspection and can be seen by sellers as less competitive when compared with conventional loans or cash offers. So higher frequencies of FHA...
  
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• What Trump's second term as U.S. president might mean for financial markets

  15-10-2024 16:20
  
  A look back at President Trump's relationships with NATO, Russia, Ukraine, and the trade war with China. OANDA shares how these relationships affected the financial markets and what to expect from Trump in a second term. Donald Trump as Republican Nominee for U.S. President Donald Trump served as president of the United States from 2016–2020 and lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden. Midway thr...
  
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• What did Geraldine Ferraro Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris have in common?

  15-10-2024 16:20
  
  October 15, 2024 - I vaguely recall Walter Mondale’s unpopular choice to join him on the 1984 Democratic ticket. At the time, I did not comprehend the reason why the electorate held so much disdain for New York Representative Geraldine Ferraro. I do, though, remember picking up the vibe that a female seeking the vice presidency was taboo, but at seven, a kid doesn’t understand that. I have learned...
  
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• WFF Fisheries Continues to Monitor Invasive Carp Species

  15-10-2024 16:20
  
  Dave Armstrong is planning to go hunting when the weather cools off, but he actually hopes he doesn't find an abundance of the species he's stalking. Armstrong is the Aquatic Nuisance Species Coordinator with the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources' (ADCNR) Wildlife and Freshwater (WFF) Division, and he and the Fisheries Section staff will be searching for...
  
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• Was Touchdown Tim Touching Teen Boys?

  15-10-2024 16:20
  
  October 15, 2024–Tim Walz has been having a very bad, horrible, no good few days, and it is only going to get worse. On Saturday morning, @DocNetyoutube posted on X (formerly Twitter) that he would be releasing information he had obtained that Walz had engaged in an inappropriate relationship with a then-underaged male when Walz was an assistant coach in Nebraska. Before I go any further, let me b...
  
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• Walz Sexual Abuse Allegations Debunked

  15-10-2024 16:20
  
  October 21, 2024–Accusations of sexual abuse of underage men by Democratic Vice Presidential nominee and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz have been debunked and removed from the web. These accusations first came to light on Saturday, October 12th in a post by @DocNetyoutube on X (formerly known as Twitter). This continued on Wednesday the 16th when a video of an alleged accuser was released by @TheWake...
  
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• Walz Accusations Vanish From X

  15-10-2024 16:20
  
  October 18, 2024–If you’ve been following The Gazette recently, you’re aware that there were reports made on X (formerly Twitter) of allegations of sexual abuse made by underage boys against Democratic Vice Presidential nominee and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. Operative word: WERE. They’re all gone now. As of late Thursday, the video of the supposed accuser that was posted Wednesday had been delet...
  
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• Virtues- Why are our schools not teaching them?

  15-10-2024 16:20
  
  The single most important thing we can teach the next generation are virtues. Virtues change destinies. Ben Franklin was arguably one of the most, if not the most, successful and influential man of the last three hundred years. When Franklin was a young man he designed a program to teach himself virtues that he deemed necessary to have a successful life. He called it "Plan for Moral...
  
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• UAH team makes STEM outreach visit to Guam as part of Missile Defense Agency Operation STEM 2024

  15-10-2024 16:20
  
  HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (OCT. 21, 2024) – A team of research engineers from The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) Research Institute travelled to Guam earlier this year with several colleagues to support a Missile Defense Agency (MDA) STEM outreach initiative called "Operation STEM - Guam 2024." UAH, a part of the University of Alabama System, partnered with MDA, the armed forces and th...
  
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• UAH researcher wins $300K NSF award to characterize vulnerability of intelligent controllers for cyber-physical systems to safeguard smart grids, robotic swarms, autonomous vehicles

  15-10-2024 16:20
  
  HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (OCT. 28, 2024) – Dr. Avimanyu Sahoo, a researcher at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) award totaling $299,969 to characterize the vulnerability of the learning-based intelligent cyber-physical systems (CPS) and defend them. The CPS represents a symbiotic integration of physical systems, sensors, actuators and lear...
  
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• UAH President Emeritus Altenkirch, wife honor Coach Stuedeman with softball endowment, now at $50K

  15-10-2024 16:20
  
  HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (Oct. 14, 2024) – Coach Lorraine "Les" Stuedeman and her softball teams consistently deliver wins to The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) and thrills to their fans. Since their first season in 1996, they've earned impressive stats: One thousand, two hundred, sixty-eight wins – and no losing seasons. Thirteen Gulf South Conference (GSC) championships. Four N...
  
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• UAB football was uncompetitive against Army

  15-10-2024 16:20
  
  The University of Alabama Birmingham Blazers football team went to Westpoint and were completely by the cadets of Westpoint. Most of the Army players will be officers in the U.S. Army within four years – some of them as soon as this time next year; but on Saturday they were the better athletes in this one sided matchup between them and the Blazers. Army destroyed UAB 10 to 44. The Black Knights ar...
  
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• UAB can't finish the deal against the University of South Alabama

  15-10-2024 16:20
  
  October 19, 2024 – the University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB) football team played much better than in recent weeks; but it ultimately was not enough to overcome the tenacity of the University of South Florida (USF). UAB had a five point lead late in the fourth quarter; but UAB was ultimately overrun by a determined comeback by USF and lost 25 to 35. UAB was outscored 15 to 6 in the fourth quarter...
  
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• Tuberville suggests that we try deporting illegals instead of spending money on housing them

  15-10-2024 16:20
  
  October 14, 2024 – New York City, New York – the New York Post has recently reported that New York City is trying to contract with 14,000 hotel rooms to house some of the millions of migrants that the Biden-Harris administration has settled in this country since coming to power. The New York Post reports that the city – long known for its high rents and housing costs – is seeking 14,000 hotel room...
  
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• Tuberville says that Kamala Harris is like a "Crazy ex-girlfriend" "Obsessed with Donald Trump"

  15-10-2024 16:20
  
  October 17, 2024 – WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) said that Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris "came across like a Crazy Ex-Girlfriend," when she was interviewed by Fox News's Bret Baier. "The only thing that we learned was how obsessed-absolutely obsessed-she was with Donald Trump." Senator Tuberville made these comm...
  
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• Trump-Vance's Vision is America's Path to Recovery and Prosperity

  15-10-2024 16:20
  
  The contrast between the Trump-Vance ticket and the absolutely disastrous Harris-Walz team couldn’t be clearer. On one side, you’ve got a proven leader in President Donald J. Trump, a man who brought us economic prosperity, secured our borders, and ensured peace through strength without dragging us into a single new war. On the other side, you’ve got Kamala Harris and Tim Walz—an uninspiring, inep...
  
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• Trump sets closing arguments in speech at Madison Square Garden

  15-10-2024 16:20
  
  October 27, 2024 – NEW YORK CITY, NY - former President Donald J. Trump spelled out why he thinks the American people should give him a second term in the Whitehouse during a nationally televised speech at Madison Square Garden, New York. President Trump denounced the Biden-Harris administration's immigration policies which have allowed ten million people into the country in less than four ye...
  
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• TROY at SOUTH ALABAMA - A Southern Rivalry Jaguars beat Trojans 25-9 in Battle for the Belt

  15-10-2024 16:20
  
  October 15, 2024 - Mobile - South Alabama played well defeating Troy in Mobile in the Battle for the Belt 2024. The Troy-South Rivalry had a national TV audience via ESPN+. Troy officially is "tied" for the youngest team of starters in NCAA D1 football. Same is offered as a basis to understand the individual play and Coaching factors with the uniqueness of the greatest inexperience. Yet...
  
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• Trial of gunman who killed Sheriff continues in Macon County today

  15-10-2024 16:20
  
  October 17, 2024 – Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall (R) will be in the courtroom today in Tuskegee for the murder trial of the man who gunned down Lowndes County Sheriff 'Big John' Williams. William Chase Johnson pulled a 9 mm handgun and fired the shot that killed Sheriff Williams on November 23, 2019. That is not disputed by the defense. The defense claims however that Sheriff W...
  
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• Tom Emmer addresses Jefferson County Republicans

  15-10-2024 16:20
  
  October 6, 2024 – Hoover – Congressman Tom Emmer (R-Minnesota) addressed the Jefferson County Republican Party at their annual dinner banquet. Emmer is the Majority Whip in the U.S. House of Representatives and the former head of the National Republican Campaign Committee (NRCC). Emmer – who served with Democratic Vice-Presidential nominee Tim Waltz in the Congress and lives in Gov. Waltz's s...
  
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• Today is Columbus Day

  15-10-2024 16:20
  
  Today, October 14, 2024, is Columbus Day. It is a federal and state holiday celebrating the achievements of the great Italian Admiral Christopher Columbus. Columbus, who was born in Genoa, Italy, is celebrated for his 1492 discovery of the Americas on behalf of the Spanish crown. Courthouses, banks, government offices, most schools, and some businesses are closed today in honor of Columbus and...
  
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• Tin Walz's Week Just Got Worse-An Accuser Video Has Been Released

  15-10-2024 16:20
  
  October 17, 2024–On Tuesday, I warned you Tim Walz’s week was going to get worse. It did. Wednesday, the X account @TheWakening published a video of a young man alleging that Tim Walz sexually assaulted him in 1997 when Walz was his teacher at Mankato West High School. The young man was a senior at the time. The video is at https://x.com/thewakeninq/status/1846655812137070844?s=61&t=aYyv3kAAQ2...
  
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• Tim Walz's Week Just Got Worse-An Accuser Video Has Been Released

  15-10-2024 16:20
  
  October 17, 2024–On Tuesday, I warned you Tim Walz’s week was going to get worse. It did. Wednesday, the X account @TheWakening published a video of a young man alleging that Tim Walz sexually assaulted him in 1997 when Walz was his teacher at Mankato West High School. The young man was a senior at the time. The video is at https://x.com/thewakeninq/status/1846655812137070844?s=61&t=aYyv3kAAQ2...
  
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