Down in Alabama with Ike Morgan

We're gonna talk about an Alabama candidate at the DNC, the law coming down on alleged gambling joints in Selma, and a pier that's finally opened back up. We also have good weather news, and I'm going to share some thoughts about, well, sandwiches. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we have some more rules for schools, a man in trouble over a stuffed bird, and a pop-up Keith Urban concert at Buc-ee's. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we have an update on charges that were filed against the Tarrant mayor, a police officer's guilty plea in a drug-planting case, a Birmingham bishop elected World Methodist Council president, and a couple of events in Coastal Alabama. After the break a listener will take our weekly Alabama news quiz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we have more controversy in Tarrant, a tragic high school football player death, money for dredging Mobile Bay, and a school going virtual because of COVID. Jonathan Sobolewski is going to tell you how the comedian Carrot Top once lost some precious props in an Alabama fire. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we’ve got good news from Alabama’s public schools, we’ve got troubling news for the state’s last Macy’s, and we’ve got the results of a pilot program for single mothers in Birmingham.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

AL.com Matt Wake interviews guitarist Slash leading up to tonight's show at the Orion Amphitheater. We also have  the workers that were being bused into one Alabama city and why, the highest-paying non-profit salary in the state (more on that in The Birmingham News daily digital edition) and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we have a railcar explosion on the Mobile Bay, where Bill Bussey will go once "Rick & Bubba" ends, and an extended space-station stay for a couple of astronauts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Today we speak with reporter Williesha Morris about some of the trends in what students can and can't wear in some Alabama schools. Also, some changes to the ACT. First, our news report includes a helicopter crash, a bill targeting illegal Mexican fishing, and the passing of a Birmingham-area political figure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today on the show we talk with reporter William Thornton about his day at a reunion of the descendants of slaves at a plantation in Etowah County. First, though, let's talk about that passenger rail vote, Hoover coaches on administrative leave, a new member in the state's Jazz Hall of Fame. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's report we have the invasive species that's shut down an Alabama lake, payments to minority farmers, a big deal in the healthcare industry and a veteran college softball coach stepping down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Another issue divides state and national Democrats. A Mobile swimmer mines metal in Paris. A former Crimson Tide player was killed while transferring to another school. Click here for more on "Beat Everyone," the podcast featured in a trailer at the end of this report. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we have a plea in a Walker County jail inmate's death that was big news last year. We also have Birmingham citizens speaking up and helping out on crime, a big summer for the Gulf of Mexico's dead zone, and John Hammontree and I are going to talk national politics and how they might affect the state's politics. And we'll go over a news-review quiz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit meg...

Today we have reporter John Sharp on the show to talk about Amtrak's pending return to Mobile. First, we have an update in the original IVF court case that led to this past spring's political bruhaha. Also, a county commission candidate accused of turning in fake absentee ballots, and the big aluminum statues going up in The Shoals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we have John Rogers' sentence, a big land purchase, Lulu's Law regarding shark attacks, a leaky pollutant site and new Wawas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We'll talk about DEI at Auburn, traffic speed cameras that've been lying to us (I've said that about radar guns before), Colin Powell's widow, Alma, who has died, and the pygmy hippo calf in Montgomery. Also, Jonathan Sobolewski's going to tell a 1930s-era Alabama story about a man who got in trouble for going on a drunken elephant ride. You can read that however you want to, because both he and t...

Today we have Choccolocco Creek cleanup (why it's needed what it'll take), another golf phenom and rain and storms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today, we have reporter Ivana Hrynkiw on the show to update us on her series on the paroling system in Alabama. She has a story about Roy Moore going to bat for an inmate hit with life after a shoplifting case that happened back when Moore was still chief justice. First, though, we have an elected mayor in Newbern, more war of words with Mexico over Vulcan Materials property there, and a former Cr...

Trash talk, an early census, university presidential earnings “Down in Alabama” listeners get a month's free subscription to The Huntsville Times, The Birmingham News, or the Mobile Press Register by going to al.com/digitalsubscription/exclusive and enter the promo code DIA24.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The University of Alabama System schools close their diversity, equity and inclusion programs. A state-record bull shark at the Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Roade. Former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Mark Kennedy's death. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A bill would let the Alabama governor or attorney general appoint interim police chiefs in certain circumstances. The state is a step closer to taking over Bessemer City Schools. Alabama's Democrats line up behind Vice President Kamala Harris. Ben Flanagan joins us. He's the host of "Beat Everyone," a new podcast about University of Alabama football. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megapho...

What Alabama politicians were saying after Joe Biden's announcement Bibb County family mass shooting Homewood Police officer's shooting Update on Auburn's Brian Battie Saban Field Alleged church theft Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Let's talk about a different kind of industrial spill, the execution of an inmate and possible name for the Crimson Tide's football field. We have a guest on the show today: environmental reporter Dennis Pillion, who will talk about the work he's done (including his "Ancient Alabama" series) and take our review quiz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we'll talk smart phones and teenagers, the Congressional District 2 race, Birmingham's call for a cease-fire in Gaza, and relatively cooler temperatures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today talk Alabama Winn Dixies that are converting to Aldis, the newest state lawmaker and Alabama's fifth veterans' home. And music and entertainment writer Matt Wake going to join us to talk Alabama singers -- and his list of the 20 greatest ever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices