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The 2024 Rural Health Conference is being held in the Bryant Conference Center on the Alabama campus. The conference has already held sessions on gender-based violence and sex trafficking, mass fatality management, and the effects of violence on communities.

Water is the source of all life. We drink it. We cook with it and we bathe in the water from our local communities. Yes, bottled water or a good water filter can handle most of these issues. I forget to grab bottled water at times, so what is in our water?

I was doing some shopping at Walmart, the Northport location, and it was SO frustrating. What should have been a quick ten minute trip, turned into an hour long saga. All due to the LOCKDOWN of every product in the store. EVERY PRODUCT IN THE STORE.

Just recently we had news of the deer tick causing people to get seriously ill. Now, comes word from the CDC about the INVASIVE Asian long-horned tick. The tick has horns. HORNS! That should not ever happen.

This is a true public service. We are helping you identify someone with a very good chance of being a jerk, or an idiot, or a schmuck. The driver next to you could be a complete you-know-what and how would you know it?

When I say "mega wealthy", I don't believe that accurately describes the kind of money we're talking about. These "products" sold to the rich and famous routinely cost more than ONE BILLION US DOLLARS! I don't think you can put it on "layaway". Just take a look at these photos.

West Alabama Works is hosting its annual WOW 2.0 event for seniors on April 10th from 9am until 1pm. The event will be held on the campus of Shelton State Community College with seniors attending from Bibb, Tuscaloosa, Hale, Sumter, Fayette, and Perry. WOW 2.0 is an effort to give graduating seniors a unique opportunity to meet representatives from 20 companies looking for employees.

I have to be careful here. For many, many reasons. I know someone that works for Tuscaloosa County, Alabama and gets to see birth certificates on a regular basis. She has always given me a rundown of some of the, well, uh, more unusual names.

That can not be right. A new Alabama law could put us normal, everyday grocery shoppers in an Alabama jail cell. Like behind bars jail cell? What is going on here? This is someone's idea of a bad joke. It has to be.

It is a big problem. Trucks, Cars, and SUVs were stolen across West Alabama. Many times they are stolen from an apartment complex. The craziest thing is what the thieves say about stealing vehicles.