Steel’s aging facilities in Gary, Indiana, Pittsburgh and Birmingham, Alabama, present “a unique opportunity” to boost the competitiveness of the U.S. steel industry, in a letter sent to the White House on Friday. The deal“will bolster the resilience and strength of key U.S. ...
Birmingham has tried to remove Confederate statues in the past, but the state legislature passed a law blocking the city. The mayor is daring the state to enforce its law. NASCAR announced: “The display of the confederate flag will be prohibited from all NASCAR events and properties.” The...
The Gwinnett vote also comes on the heels of a recent New York Times piece that focused on the efforts of the Koch brothers, through their lobbying group Americans for Prosperity, to disrupt local transit initiatives in small to midsize cities like Nashville and Birmingham. The effort is remini...
Waste management company Veolia has announced the opening of a recycling facility for electric vehicle (EV) battery packs. According to a statement, the new site located in Minworth, near Birmingham (United Kingdom), will "initially di...
Glyn Evans is head of Birmingham City Council's transformation programme, which aims to save £1bn in 10 years. The programme is made up of nine projects, each aiming to bring efficiency to a different department. Key projects include Corporate Services Transformation, which aims to rebuild the...
Bankruptcy laws did not apply to them, and running out on a debt was illegal — and could result in being sold to work the mines in Birmingham. Similarly, if you worked as a house servant or in a shop, the name of your white employer was your only defense should the sheriff come ...
Student B: Yeah, I bought a ___ ticket to Birmingham because I’m not coming back by train. A first class B single C one way D return 7. Student A: I got carried away last night and spent all my money. Student B: I ___ you need me to loan you some then, right? A suppose...
Nosy Crowsets the alarm forAll Through the Night: Important Jobs That Get Done at Nightby Polly Faber, illus. by Harriet Hobday, spotlighting the nurses, cleaners, delivery workers, police officers, and the many other workers who keep the city running overnight;Sunday Fundayby Katherine Halligan...
The Secretary of Commerce threatened to fire top employees at the federal scientific agency responsible for weather forecasts last Friday after the agency’s Birmingham office contradicted President Trump’s claim that Hurricane Dorian might hit Alabama, according to three people familiar with the discuss...
So I was not particularly shocked when I heard that Fox News was helping spread the bizarre dystopian fantasy that there were “no-go zones” in Europe that non-Muslims have to stay out of, including the entire city of Birmingham, England, and certain well-delineated neighborhoods of Paris....