Down In Alabama With Ike Morgan

Monday morning's storms brought tragedy. Don't expect state laws to be affected by possible federal marijuana changes. Still need a reason to get a colonoscopy? Facts and thoughts about the Great Southern Brood of cicadas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The 110-year-old Elba Hydoelectric Dam, built to bring electricity to Troy and other locales, is being removed. Does Huntsville need a Postal Service distribution center? Birmingham-Southern's baseball team isn't finished yet, even if the school it represents is. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alabama vs. the EPA. Hurricane-season predictions. A barbecue hall of famer. Alabama brain drain. This week's review quiz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Where Alabama ranks on U.S. News & World Report's ranking of the best states. What does it take to be middle class in Alabama? Where a DEI program has been shut down. We have excerpts from Wednesday's virtual event with Sen. Katie Britt and others, co-hosted by AL.com's Alabama Education Lab. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Let's talk maternal mortality, The Voice, a drone arrest, a childcare discussion coming today. Also, Bob Carlton's on the show to talk about various kinds of Alabama food that you need to get you some of this summer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A district attorney is calling for a retrial in a death-penalty case. A recently burned church building had stood since 1850. Birmingham-Southern may be closing, but its baseball team isn't finished yet. Big wins for a high school rocket team and a 12-year-old cook. We speak with Ruth Serven Smith of the Alabama Education Lab about school life and work this coming fall, and how this recent Legislative session might've affected you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mercedes-Benz workers in Alabama vote down union. Here's what hunting and fishing tourism is doing for the Black Belt Some third graders are having to catch up in reading. Big Bob Gibson's BBQ won a prestigious barbecue contest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Labor Department finds underage workers at a poultry processing plant. Birmingham has nearly 300 openings for police officers. Daphne and Huntsville were cited in a study among those with a high potential for growth in home values. AL.com's Leada Gore takes our weekly news-review quiz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why conservationists are turning snakes loose in the woods. Another extremely rare yellow cardinal has been photographed. The tornado totals from last week's severe weather in Alabama. Birmingham Police updated statistics for "Operation Knight Rider." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Environmental reporter Dennis Pillion joins us to talk about the "land between the rivers" that has been purchased with conservation goals in mind. Coca-Cola plans to put a big visual stamp on Birmingham. Red Lobster reportedly has pulled out of some Alabama locations. Updates from The Voice and American Idol. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alabama's senators and representatives send a letter to Mexico. A former student who was suspended by a Tuscaloosa school takes his case to the United Nations. A sports/entertainment complex is planned for Muscle Shoals. Why there was a shelter-in-place order in Creola Monday. WHNT 19 news anchor Steve Johnson has announced his retirement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nick Saban said a pro-union ad takes him out of context. A middle school assistant principal is accused of a shocking crime. We'll list some of the Alabama Legislative measures that we mentioned here previously but that didn't make it to the governor's desk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We have a wrap on the Alabama Legislative Session. U.S. Sen. Katie Britt co-sponsors legislation affecting pregnancy crisis centers. Alabama A&M makes an offer for the Birmingham-Southern campus. Rush Propst legal action has taken place alongside his resignation from Pell City High School. AL.com editor Kent Faulk takes our Alabama news review quiz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bad weather moves through parts of Alabama. State lawmakers enter the final day of the Legislative session. Researchers release video of a great white shark off the Alabama coast. A forestry student establishes a Guinness record for tree-hugging. Greg Garrison joins us to discuss the Methodist split, Baptist attendance, and how those denominations built Alabama's culture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we have a Legislative roundup that includes a $3.4 billion General Fund budget. A North Alabama chef won the Alabama Seafood Cook-Off. An NFL team is helping build girls flag football in Alabama. Jonathan Sobolewski explains the new federal noncompete rules. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A large, 30-year development project is expected to land at Interstates 65 and 565 between Huntsville and Decatur. Former Alabama athletics director and player (and former Clemson head coach) Hootie Ingram has passed away. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall is dealt a setback in court on his abortion-travel stand. Weather reporter Leigh Morgan joins us to discuss storms, heat and even hurricane season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Alabama Supreme Court rejected a re-hearing on its decision that led to IVF clinics pausing or ending services. Alcohol costs could be going up at ABC stores. Rush Propst has stepped down as the Pell City High School head football coach. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Legislative session talk is still on the stalled lottery/casinos package. Biden now only needs Ivey's signature to be on the ballot. House passes General Fund budget. Finding and affording childcare is no easy task. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 2, 2024: Why did Selma's mayor suspend its police chief? Where the United Methodist Church now stands on gay marriage. The pro-Palestinian demonstrations have reached the University of Alabama. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We have Legislative action on gambling, guns and porn. And we have more police-chief drama around the state. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices