Down in Alabama with Ike Morgan

Alabama's parole board has proposed changes to its guidelines. An "aviation" high school is about to celebrate its first graduating class. And North Dakota is raising its maximum speed limit ... for those who might happen to be passing through North Dakota anytime soon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we have a boat-crash lawsuit, the passing of a TV news anchor and some college baseball. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we have the death of Alabama's oldest prison inmate. Then we'll go outdoors with briefs on game wardens, a lake drawdown and a gator in a Huntsville neighborhood. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We'll talk about an old attempted-murder case involving a snake-handler, the latest on Campaign '26, and Tuesday's tornado count so far. Then we'll talk about the origin of the name of a roadway familiar to some of you beach-goers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we're going to start at that sometimes broad area where politics and crime overlap, and we'll end up talking about barbecue. Nick Saban will come up somewhere along the way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we have veteran and soon-to-be-retired features writer Bob Carlton. For the past couple decades you've read his reporting on the food beat in Alabama, particularly central Alabama, but he's done stories on all kinds of people and movies and even Miss Terry Saban. Here is some of the work we highlight in the interview: Highlands' big win Banks vs. Woodlawn Jimmy Koikas's feature obit More sto...

New census estimates, an airport opening and ballpark upgrades. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we have another Alabama News Quiz, so make sure you stick around for that. First, we've reached the end of Arthur Bremer's sentence, we'll talk about why the Gulf of America bill didn't get final approval, and there are more police drones coming to our skies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Yesterday was the final day of the 2025 Legislative session. Lawmakers left a parting gift for the governor and those in law enforcement rooting for the "Back the Blue" bill to make it through. We'll have that, a fluoride update and a moonlighting mayor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A couple things to look for on the final working day of the 2025 legislative session; obesity state rankings; some of the pairings in the Regions Tradition Celebrity Pro-Am. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Let's talk about the Interstate rocket, Space Command, tariff requests and dog names. Then at the end we'll go way back in the archives for a story about the time a couple of Birmingham News journalists followed a car that had a dude's hand sticking out of the trunk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we'll talk about Tuberville and swatting, Britt and Fetterman, and S. Epatha Merkerson's gift for Talladega College. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We have an update on the University of Alabama doctoral student in ICE custody, a ruling on the 2023 Congressional re-districting that didn't take, the Teacher of the Year and life expectancy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We have why a city is throwing out 58 felony cases, what Nick Saban's next gig might be, how much NEA money is being pulled from the Sidewalk Film Festival and what's shaking in the waning days of the Legislative session. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we have THC regulation, a venue's demolition, and an ID deadline today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gov. Kay Ivey's 11th-hour legislative priorities, fluoridation of drinking water, and an Albertville DJ's passing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Let's look at shark-attack alerts, possible grant money for struggling hospitals and one more bike with Bo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we have items on Trump in Tuscaloosa, a hospital in Thomasville and a preacher who passed away after more than 70 years in the pulpit. Then we're going to have a listener come on and take this week's news quiz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we have state budgets passed, a Back the Blue bill, termite damage at the Cathedral-Basilica of the Immaculate Conception and some possible weather. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Could anyone show up at the University of Alabama graduation event who might be a bigger draw than President Trump? If so, it's probably former coach Nick Saban. Also today, we have some public-safety bills, a marsupial on the loose and a big shipping company's decision to scale back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we have good news for salamanders, a short-term weather outlook, a wild turkey-hunting story and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We have what survey respondents said about the southern accent (you might want to believe this survey) and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we'll talk about Tuberville's pending decision, Coca-Cola construction, Gulf Coast Amtrak and the Mullet Toss, and we'll have a listener come on the show to take our Alabama News Quiz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we'll talk about we have Kash Patel's promise, chronic wasting disease in Georgia and a festival to honor Sun Ra. Then we'll bring on guest Adam Schwartz. He's a writer, producer, filmmaker and actor who's best known for his ongoing work with the sketch comedy brand It's a Southern Thing. Here are some links to some of Adam's (and It's a Southern Thing's) work that we talk about: It's a Sout...

Today we'll talk about Alabama's likely next execution, possibly more CHOOSE Act money, Trump's Tuscaloosa speech and a really old Selma hotel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices