Tag: RANDALL WOODFIN

Alicia Escott Lumpkin has defeated State Rep. Juandalynn Givan (D-Birmingham) in the Democratic primary election for House District 60.

On Wednesday, Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin endorsed Phillip Ensler for lieutenant governor. The endorsement comes less than a year after Ensler publicly announced that he wasn’t running for reelection and intended to move home to New York.

Mayor Randall Woodfin is pausing the implementation of new rules and definitions of the “Kelvyn Felder Ordinance” meant to curb incidents of violence at problematic nightclubs.

The results are in, and according to a new survey Birmingham-Hoover is the top place in the country for college graduates to land a job.

Central Alabama Water was vindicated when Circuit Judge Frederic Allen Bolling walked back his prior ruling and dismissed the case brought against them by Woodfin for ending the fluoridation of its water system.

The legislature is poised to double Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin's annual salary, bringing it to $220,000.

On Monday, Circuit Judge Frederic Allen Bolling issued a scathing order requiring Central Alabama Water to resume fluoride operations across its entire system, a move that may have catastrophic consequences for the utility's financial well-being and raise costs across the board.

Woodfin criticized the decision of Central Alabama Water to end adding fluoride to water. The issue: two of the system’s three plants were already offline before the new board was created.

Friday afternoon, Central Alabama Water announced that it will no longer add fluoride to its drinking water.

In celebrating the decision, nearly everyone acknowledged that Britt spearheaded the effort through her role as chair of the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, which funds DHS and USCG.

U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) is pushing back against Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin declaring January 2026 as Muslim American Heritage Month.

During this week's broadcast of Alabama Public Television's "Capitol Journal - Week in Review," Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin responded to U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville's (R-Auburn) repeated pledge to deploy the National Guard in Alabama cities with high crime rates if elected governor.

Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin is keeping his promise to address homelessness and public safety.

Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin was sworn in for his third term Tuesday night, pledging to focus on children through a cradle-to-career plan.

Monday afternoon, the board for Central Alabama Water convened to take up a few administrative tasks when Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin came to address the board. 

On Monday, Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin took to social media to address the rumored frontrunner for chief executive officer for Central Alabama Water, Jeff Thompson.

The city of Birmingham will have $1 million on hand to launch an emergency food relief fund as the federal government shutdown continues, according to Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin.

Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin is threatening to hold up Central Alabama Water’s (CAW) ability to make critical repairs to its infrastructure, sending a letter to the Central Alabama Water Board that puts conditions on the City of Birmingham’s approval of pending loans. 

A Birmingham-based firm that works to get progressives elected is taking part in the Mobile mayoral race. VoteShift consults campaigns, designs their brand and markets them online and through events.

Birmingham podcaster Iva Williams has filed an ethics complaint against State Rep. Juandalynn Givan (D-Birmingham) for paying her brother for campaign services in her race for Birmingham mayor against incumbent Randall Woodfin. Givan says that the expenditures are valid and calls the complaint against her "petty" insisting that it is yet another “attack on my character,” by those associated with Woodfin.

Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin is pushing for State Rep. Barbara Drummond (D-Mobile) to win the Mobile mayoral race. Drummond will face off with former Mobile District Court Judge Spiro Cheriogotis on September 23.

Days after defeating State Rep. Juandalynn Givan (D-Birmingham) Birmingham mayor Randall Woodfin endorsed her challenger, Alicia Escott Lumpkin.

Birmingham Mayor Woodfin won reelection with 74% of the vote spending a staggering $1,372,886.13 as of his latest campaign finance report.

On Tuesday, the Southern Poverty Law Center Action Fund endorsed Birmingham's Mayor Randall Woodfin for reelection.

Birmingham’s mayor, Randall Woodfin, is going all in with his support of the legalization of marijuana, earning him the endorsement of the Alabama Cannabis Coalition. According to Woodfin, “Alabama needs to legalize cannabis, not just because it’s something that sounds nice, but because it advances justice and is good for our economy.”

Two families from each Birmingham City School will have the chance to receive $500 each. All they need to do is register their child and ensure they attend the first day of school, August 7. The program is being funded by a grant given by the Penny Foundation.

More often than not, good governance is just the enactment of common sense which, unfortunately, is all too uncommon.