From our favorite Scottish-Gulf-Coast reporter, Tiffany Craig:
Paul Hamman owns the county’s junkiest property on Redstone Drive East in Semmes. We’ve followed Hamman’s story for two years including the fact that he was charged with criminal littering and thrown in jail for all that junk in January….

POWER VACUUM
The balance of power in the healthcare debate is shifting as the Senate Finance Committee began marking up legislation this week that Democrats once hoped would serve as a vehicle for bipartisanship. But so …

Read the just released book’s first pages here from Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Case-God-Karen-Armstrong/dp/0307269183#reader

Press Register Guy Busby took this picture for his story in today’s Baldwin Press Register found at www.al.com.

Hearing how John Muir and a series of Presidents of the United States created national parks like the Grand Canyon is inspiring documentary making. WSRE portrays Pensacola Beach National Seashore in a parallel show inspired by the Ken Burns series.

http://www.pnj.com/article/20090929/NEWS01/909290320/1006/RSS01

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Peter Gounares is running in the 2010 Republican primary for U.S. House District 1 against Jo Bonner.…

USA Jags, Auburn, Alabama, Saints Undefeated!

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GOP vows to stall nominees over ‘gag order’  By Ryan J. Donmoyer Bloomberg News
WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans vowed to block President Obama’s nominee for surgeon general and other health officials unless the government drops what they said was a “gag order” barring health insurers from lobbying their Medicare policyholders on the health-care overhaul.The …

Charlotte Observer  (Excerpted)
By Charles Chandler cchandler@charlotteobserver.com
Posted: Saturday, Sep. 26, 2009
Rookie cornerback Captain Munnerlyn quickly captured the attention of his new Carolina Panthers teammates in training camp when he faced off with Steve Smith. Munnerlyn, 5 feet 8 inches tall and 186 pounds, was assigned to play press coverage near the line …

By Patrick Rupinski Staff Writer Published: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 at 3:30 a.m.

TUSCALOOSA | The state’s top financial guru says Alabama’s government will face severe economic challenges during the next two years. ‘It will be extremely brutal down in Montgomery this next year and the year after that,’ said David Bronner, chief …