re: The SEC home offices in Birmingham ...

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That is just Bham slander from the article... Who cares about a city attorney being fired.. The article lacks any substantial information about how the City is trending in a different direction... Birmingham isnt Detroit.. As long as UAB and the medical district is in Bham the city will be fine.


May I ask, where the heck do you reside...

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Well, the two articles above definitely substantiate how the City is trending downwards - agreed? Two totally different sources with no ulterior motivations as far as I can see.

And is that the same medical district that is still recoiling from the bad financial moves made by the city leadership that invested so heavily in ... what was the name of that big national medical group that B-ham was so heavily invested in a few years ago? The one that cost the city a billion dollars in bond issues and 401Ks?

Is that the same medical community funded by the bankrupt county that was just forced to lay-off a few hundred workers over at Cooper-Greene Mercy Hospital? Are they not now closing the inpatient care facility there as well as part of desperation budget cuts.

Is Birmingham located in the same Jefferson County where B-ham police and Jefferson County sheriffs and highway patrol are finally being told to quite writing tickets for expired tags on vehicles because the city and county is not able to staff enough clerks to get renewed tags out on time to drivers? What's that little mess costing the city and county in screw-up fees? $600k or something like that right? I'll bet it will end-up being more before all is said and done. Wouldn't it have just been easier to pay the $187,000.00 to keep the four employees they laid-off trying to save money who were keeping the renewals flowing and on time?

Wait, did I just hear right? Is B-ham suing Jefferson County and did a Federal Judge just tell B-ham they have no case, that they, B-ham, are part of the problem and trying to slough-it-off on Jefferson County is a cop-out?

That's what I am talking about when I refer to bad leadership. The SEC home offices deserve a better home, a more forward thinking home surrounded by a more representative city and county indicative of the SEC's burgeoning position in the world of college sports. The new TV contract is gonna put a lot of cameras in the offices of the SEC and B-ham is not the jewel of the South by a long shot.