Month: September 2017

How municipal regulations and planning can help minimize flood catastrophes

The recent hurricanes that struck Texas and Florida were reminders of the powerful force of Mother Nature and the crippling...

Growing the Bench: Huntsville Municipal Court to get additional judge

The City of Huntsville’s Municipal Court, located in the Public Safety Complex, is not the courtroom of network dramas, of...

Huntsville firefighters step it up to honor memory of brethren lost on 9/11

Twenty-one firefighters from Huntsville Fire & Rescue (along with one each from Decatur and Madison) participated Sunday in the 8th...

My views on leadership – Shane Cook

Name: Shane Cook  Age: 44  Title: Director of Water Pollution Control  Family: Wife Emily, daughters Savannah (16), Ava (13), Elainah (8)  Education: Bibb Graves High in Clay...

Keeping Huntsville ‘Green’ is team effort between City and volunteers

A Realtor is conducting a dizzying, confusing tour through Huntsville with future residents. Yes, Highway 53 becomes Jordan which becomes...

Gaining ground in the lucrative tourism and hospitality market

When visitors arrive in Huntsville, we expect them to look up in awe under the Saturn V rocket at the U.S....

Promising the Moon: how a former council member inspired service

On Aug. 10, 2017, Council voted to name the redevelopment project at the site of the old Grissom High School...

Building a Cyber Alabama

Mayor Battle offered his vision for a cyber Alabama during his address to the annual conference of  Government Managed Information...

Having a heart attack and living to tell about it – Council Member Mark Russell

Less than a week after crumbling to the turf while officiating a high school football game, Huntsville City Council Member...

Riptide Rescue: Quick actions by off-duty Huntsville firefighter praised as heroic

He wasn’t trying to be a hero. He was merely “doing for him what I’d want them to do for...