David Sher

By David Sher One minute we are at the top of the world. The next, we hit rock bottom. Where is our confidence?

Why do we think it’s okay to be judged by people who don’t know us and don’t care about us?

By David Sher I wrote about Sam Tenenbaum , aka The Great Kaiser , when he passed away last year. I wrote about my regret, my guilt, my failure to support him.

By Mark Whiteside I will never forget the sound of that door closing behind me. It wasn't dramatic. No alarms went off. Nobody yelled.

For those who didn’t know Sam, he was a true Birmingham original–a wrestler and an opera singer.

By Eric Thomas What if you could land at Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport, step outside, and hop on a tram that carried you

There are a constellation of thriving districts, each one an engine of tourism, commerce, culture, and residential growth. What they lack is a thread connecting them.

By Randy Hutcheson Every day, Birmingham residents generate enormous amounts of monetizable digital exhaust — streaming movies, using

I love Alabama. I've spent my life trying to make Birmingham and Alabama better.

Here are 8 things Alabama won’t let us do — or won’t do for us — that most of the country takes for granted.