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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Uh, Uncle Henry, I have a suggestion for naming something
for Coach Bryant. Uh. There's been a lot of streets
in Mobile recently the names have been changed. Why not
changed the name of Airport Boulevard to Paul Bear Bryant Boulevard.
I think people would be more respectful driving on it.
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It was was being honored also and certainly named the
new bridge across the bay named after Paul Bear Bryant Bridge.
I loved the University of Alabama, and I loved Coach Bryant.
Thank you, bye bye.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
This is the Uncle Henry Show here on news Radio
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Speaker 3 (01:54):
And thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
I appreciate very much you checking out the Uncle Henry
Show once again. Here we are, you and me together
again trying to figure out what is going on, what's
going on in the world around us. And yes, I
am still thinking about the municipal elections it took place
this week all across the state of Alabama. Still trying
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to understand and analyze all of the election results, not
just in Mobile, but in many other interesting places, so
many interesting places like Orange Beach and Robertsdale. Robertsville one
of my favorite places to drive through when I'm on
my way to places i'd rather be. Just wonderful. Just
all these election results now, by the way, just a
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programming note for you. I got a chance during the
election to interview two of the four mayor candidates. I
reached out to all four, heard back from Paul Prime
and Spiro and interviewed them. Never heard back from the
other two candidates, but I did here today. I did
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hear from the Drummond campaign. So at some point they
said they would love to come on the show. So
at some point between now and the next voting time,
there will be an Uncle Henry interview with Representative Barbara Drummonds.
So looking for thank you, by the way, thank you
in advance to all the candidates that will come on
the show. So looking forward to talking with Representative Drummond
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about her vision for mobile. Now, speaking of all the analysis,
I'm sure you're seeing TV reports on the local TV
stations breaking down the analysis of how the votes went.
Lan Yapp has got a story up this afternoon about
how each candidate performed in different polling places. Very interesting
stuff to the political nerd type people that enjoy looking
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in on this. I'm going to share with you the
Fox ten breakdown. Here is investigative reporter Brending Kirby, who
maybe I'm wondering if Brendan Kirby lost wait recently because
his jacket, he maybe needs to have the jacket tailored.
Here's Brendan Kirby, the investigative reporter from Fox ten, breaking
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down how the candidates performed in different polling places. And
I think you will find this quite interesting if you
are one of the people that leans to a nerdish
level on politics.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
A precinct by precint analysis shows that third place finisher
Paul Prine threw significant African American support. Political experts say
that if Representative Drummonds can consolidate that support, he could
set up a close runoff election next month. Typically, Mobile
elections follow racially polarized voting patterns, with Waite voters supporting
white candidates and African Americans winning massive black majorities. Former
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Mobile police chief Paul Prine broke that somewhat on Tuesday.
He finished second in eight of the ten precincts where
African Americans can prise at least eighty percent of the
registered voters. At Hope Community Center and Fulton Heights United
Methodist Church, he took more than twenty percent. University of
South Alabama political science professor Thomas Shaw says that Primee's
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vote distribution sets him apart from the other three candidates.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Actually, it means he basically did well with both whites
and blacks. He wasn't necessarily supported strongly by one or
the other, but rather by both groups. So it will
be very interesting to see how the Prime supporters fall
out during the actual election.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Robert Clham, Sorry, I'm pausing there just to say this
is something that I believe that the prime voters will
be a major factor. They may be the major factor
and who wins the runoff the prime voters. You heard
Brendan Kirby there. I'll return to the Brending report here
in just a moment, But you heard Brendan Kirby talking
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about Paul Prin having support among people of a variety
of ethnicities, both white and black. And this is something
that I noticed when the controversy erupted. When we first
heard the controversy and they were looking to get rid
of Paul Prine at city Hall. One of the first
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big defenders of Paul Prine on social media. One of
his biggest defenders on social media initially when it first
started was former Mobile City councilman Fred Richardson. Fred Richardson
had nothing but great things to say about Paul Prine
as a police officer. So Paul Prine apparently has a
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lot of fans of various ethnicitives right back to the
Brendan Kirby analysis.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Opting President of the Mobile County chapter of the NAACP,
says he's not surprised by Priane's performance and notes that
the other way candidates, to a lesser extent, also acted
black support. But he says he expects voting in next
month's runoff to break down stronger along race lines.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
So I definitely think that we will see less crossover
voting in these runoff elections than there was in the primary.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Spiro Cherry Goddis, who stepped down as a district judge
to run, ran strongest in the precincts with the small
share of black voters, but he and Representative Drummond both
say they're not conceding any votes.
Speaker 7 (07:32):
Next month, you can see me on the side of
the road, waving signs at you, knocking on your door,
making phone calls, being everywhere I can to meet voters
where they are.
Speaker 8 (07:43):
My entire political career, if you look at it, I
have always had crossover field. I don't look at black voters.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
And white voters.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Professor Shaw tells me that he expects most of County
Commissioner Countie Hudson's supporters to back Cherry got Us in
the on off and most of Priane's black supporters to
vote for Representative Drummond. He says that could set up
Priane's weight voters to be the decider in the election.
Reporting live in the news center, Brendan Kirby, Fox ten US.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Okay, all right, there you have it, just for the
political nerdish type of folks, little in depth analysis there.
There is more to come. I got a lot more
to get to. As The Uncle Henry Show proceeds forward
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Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. Still getting some uh some
voicemail messages from people about the election. Let me go
to this message that came in early this morning to
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the Uncle Henry Show voicemail an.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
This is.
Speaker 9 (09:52):
Henry Wilson's here, majorial raise. I got to thinking, Henry,
I got a half an idead or run from mayor
and myself.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
All right, now, before you go on, I hope you
realize it's too late. There's no way to jump into
the runoff. You'll have to wait four years. If I
understand math correctly, you're gonna have to wait. So you
come to this half of an idea, just a tad
late Bifford.
Speaker 9 (10:22):
Half an idea or run for mayor and myself, Henry,
I will run on one issue. I will be a
one issue candidate and that issue will be potholes. Henry.
You know what they got the one mobile bringing all
Mobile together, Henry. If you fill the potholes, you will
bring all citizens of Mobile together. Go down the road
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that the mayor lives on, ain't no potholes, go down
the road and economically depressed the neighborhood full of potholes, Henry.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
All right, now wait, I'm gonna pause you there. Now,
this is something I thought about. I've had these discussions. Yes,
you're wondering, do I really care about these things? Of
course I do. And when I'm off the air. One
of the reasons I have trouble maintaining relationships is because
I like to talk about things like potholes and infrastructure.
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And for many years, up until just a few years ago, Duford,
I want you to remember how awful Old Shell Road was.
Old Shell Road was awful for years. It was awful
for years. And I used to ask people a lot
smarter than me, and there are plenty of them. I
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would ask them, I'd say, I'd say to them, you know,
some of the most influential people in this town drive
down this road. Some of the most influential people in
this town use this road to get down to downtown
Mobile and do whatever whatever type of lawyer and job
or court job or whatever they're doing down there. One
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of the most influential people in Mobile, and I would
ask people why do they let why And a lot
of the roads used to be really bad around Mobile
Country Club, and I'd say, why aren't these influential people
getting these roads fixed? So be it's not just it's
not just the great neighborhoods that have bad roads. It
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isn't Now. Maybe over the past few years since they
raised our taxes and they have been doing a little
road work over the last ten years or so, maybe
it's gotten better. But it wasn't always the case. I
can remember when the well to do also dealt with potholes.
But back to your your your half of an idea
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to run as a pothole candidate.
Speaker 9 (12:50):
Ain't no potholes go down the road and economically depressed
the neighborhood full of potholes, Henry. You know they're tired
of having the cars tore up by potholes.
Speaker 10 (13:04):
Henry.
Speaker 9 (13:05):
My campaign promise will be that I will fix all
the potholes within one year. I will I will put
every city department on pothole duty, every single one, Henry, Henry.
My campaign motto will be vote you for He'll fill
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your holes. And that's all you need to do, Henry,
is just steal the potholes and Mobile will reach its
perpetual potential. Anyway, Henry, I'm seriously thinking about it.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
You have a good day, all right, Well, think about it.
You have a lot. You have quite a while to
think about it. If you want to run for mayor
mob have you have a few years to work on
this plan and find just just fine tune it, hone it,
sharpen it. Think about it because there could be something
to it. Many people don't understand. There's so much talk
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about economic development. Have been for years. Mobile's done quite
well over the past few years, attracting a lot of
business from ount of town. But some of the best
economic development you can do is just to have great infrastructure.
That's it. Somebody comes into your town and they see
your town looks great. They might want to locate there,
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they might want to bring a business there, they might
want to move the family there. So having good infrastructure
that's a form of economic development. Betfred, I'm with you now.
If you had run, if you had come up with
this half of an idea some time ago, maybe you
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would have had it. Maybe you could have been in there,
maybe you would have come in Maybe you would have
come in third. If there were you, if we added
you to the other four, maybe you would have come
in third or fourth on this. But now we'll never know.
But but think about it. Youford trying to figure out, uh,
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whether or not you want to do that, because I
think some people would enjoy that. Two five to one
four seven nine two seven two three the telephone number.
There's two five to one four seven nine two seven
two three. Email address Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com.
That's Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. Now on the
same topic, I also got this voicemail. This came in
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I think about a day ago.
Speaker 11 (15:47):
Henry Stormer Norman. I counted the potholes on Brookdale Drive North.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
And so this man counted some potholes. Let's hear what
it has got, do you, the listener. I'm gonna let
you guess in your mind. You can pretend that I
can hear you, even though I can't pretend I can
hear you. And I'm asking you guess how many potholes
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did the man find on Brookdale Drive North? Just guess? Okay,
thank you, for your guess. Let's find out if you're right.
Speaker 11 (16:26):
Brookdale Drive North thirty two, no joke, thirty two thirty two.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
All right now, how can you drive down this street?
Speaker 11 (16:40):
Brookdale Drives South? Nowhere near as bad. But there's one
of them thirty six inches wide and ten inches deep.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
All right now, we're getting into philosophy. Here is what
is more impactful? It be thirty two smaller potholes on
Brookdale North or one gigantic one on Brookdale South? Which
one is more impactful?
Speaker 10 (17:11):
Man?
Speaker 11 (17:11):
You talk about a pothole from heck? Ready for some
roll tide this weekend, Buddy rod ro tride road. But
I tell you what, the potholes on Brookdale Drive are
second to none, second to none.
Speaker 12 (17:30):
Have a good day.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
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let's see more message. I've gotten more messages here if
you'd like to leave one. The voicemail numbers two five
one two one six nineteen seventy six. That's two five
one two one six nineteen seventy six. And yes, I've
received a message phoned in early this morning. It's six
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in the morning by the Trapper of Snakes.
Speaker 10 (19:04):
Hey over, Henry, snake trapper, hey man. I posted on
your social.
Speaker 13 (19:08):
Media page charms of Friday Night with Uncle Henry two
horrible potholes that I encounter on my commute to work,
Uncle Henry.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
By the way, I did not expect to get a
bunch of pothole voicemails when I got to work today.
I thought there'd be like election related you know, voicemails
and stuff like that. But now I'm I'm getting a
bunch of pothole messages. I guess this is a lesson
for me that as you sew, so shall you reap.
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I am reaping what I have sown, and I don't mind.
Speaker 10 (19:46):
And I would like to proudly say that segment two.
The horrible pothole on wolf Ridge Road as of August
to twenty eighth, Uncle Henry. This morning as I come through,
there was fixed. So man, I am totally surprised.
Speaker 11 (20:06):
Now the one at.
Speaker 10 (20:07):
Watson in Main Street, it's still got a green circle
around it with three cones kicking in it. I hadn't
done nothing did. But what I would like to say
is what I've learned this experience over, Henry. If you
got horrible potholes that can potentially cause death or rex
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u post it posted on social media on entry because
there ain't no doubt in my mind.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
I'm sorry to pause this, but I've never I've never
sat and pondered a pothole that can potentially cause death.
Now I'm sure they can. I've never contemplated that before. See,
this is kind of dark. I'm gonna have this. I'm
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I might have to spend some time over the Labor
Day weekend just pondering, maybe sit in a dark room
with the Bible and ponder the potholes of death.
Speaker 10 (21:08):
That that action got that pothole fixed. I mean, it
is a horrible one. I don't know if you checked
it out or not, but man, it was a front
end record, Uncle Henry. And the only thing they've been
doing about it for the past years. A couple of
times they'd put sand in it and next time the
rain washed right out. But yes, sir, as of this morning,
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August of twenty eighth, that pothole has been fixed. A man,
So I'd recommend if you got horrible potholes out there,
post them on social media, letting people know how dangerous
they are, and you know, the city will be libel.
I guess if they know that hazards there and did.
Speaker 11 (21:49):
Not fix it.
Speaker 10 (21:50):
But I just want to share that with you, my buddy.
Speaker 11 (21:53):
You take care, Snake.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Trapor Thank you. That was thought provoking and a public
service and you've got me and now I've got a
new avenue. Thought. I need to be more deliberative and
sober when I think about the impact of potholes, the
potential death causing potholes around the city of Mobile in
the county two five one four seven nine two seven
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two three. The telephone number that's two five to one
four seven nine two seven two three. Snake Trapper recommending
that people post pictures on social media. You know, all
the people that like to post mug shots. It's too
bad we can't make the potholes just as as postworthy
as the mug shots. Hello, color that name, Henry, Yes, sir,
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you are live on the radio.
Speaker 14 (22:41):
Yeah, this is a this is a political and a
pothole update.
Speaker 10 (22:45):
You know.
Speaker 14 (22:45):
I called in last week, I guess it was Friday
before the election, and I told you my road, which
I thought was in good shape that's on the border
of the city in the county, was mysteriously for some
reason repays yes, portion of it, and very very glad
of that. I want to give you an update on that.
They have now come back and redressed the sides and
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have laid side now they they did not they have left.
They still don't have stripping up and uh they have
not watered the sod at all. And I know that that,
Uh that's a process that has to happen on road
building when they do that, but that still hasn't happened yet.
And uh now now we look at dead side on
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both sides of the road since that happened on Friday afternoon,
uh after I called you. So update there on the
political side of that, that was a mystery that all
of a sudden up before the election, that that particular
piece of pavement got paved on the boundary. So uh
and then uh, then the side all all all of
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a sudden appeared and now it's dead. So that's alit.
My political end, my my road update for the day.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
All right, well, hey, before there you go, now the song.
We're about to get some rain tonight and tomorrow. Is
it too late for the rain to revive the sod?
Speaker 14 (24:09):
I was, I was, I'm I'm guessing eighty five to
ninety percent gone, it was being my estimation.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
All right, Well, I hate to hear that. I hate
to I always hate to hear sod going to.
Speaker 14 (24:20):
Waste, absolutely absolutely, but none was wasted on the road.
All the pieces made it intact and on the side,
so nothing was wasted there. It was all wasted in
place as it should have been. So we got that
going on.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
All right. Well, there you go, Well, positives and negatives
out there, all right? Well, absolutely, well, thank you so
much for the update on that.
Speaker 14 (24:45):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
That would good one you too. There you goes two five, one, four,
seven nine two three the telephone number here on the
unc Leanner show. Now, a few years ago I guess
this would have been maybe about three years years ago.
The neighborhood that I was living in in Midtown. I'm
not there anymore, but I was in a neighborhood in
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Midtown that out of the blue they came in and
resurfaced the streets. It's something that I never expected to
happen while I lived in Mobile, but there comes the
City of Mobile. They resurfaced those streets and apparently, and
again this was about three years ago. Apparently it wasn't
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done properly, and so they had to come back in
and do the whole thing again. So maybe it was
a learning experience for everybody involved, but not everything is five.
The reason I brought that up is it's not always perfect.
It's not always perfect. Even the people that are working
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for the governmental entities in charge of this have to
learn sooner or later. So it may have been a
learning experience out there with this man and his road,
and they'll do better next time. In fact, it was
about twenty five years ago. I was in a city
park and there were seven workers there. And this is
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not I'm not telling you this to lead up to
a punchline or anything. This was the park where now
there's a skateboard park and all this kind of stuff
there there in midtown. But years ago there was no
skateboard park or dog park or anything like that. It
was just a park. I was there maybe twenty five
years ago or so, and seven city workers. I counted
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them because I noticed it took seven of them, seven
of them to change the light bulbs. They were changing
light bulbs down there, and they had seven people, and
actually two people were doing stuff and the rest of
them were watching with great interest, and I had to
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make up a story in my mind. The story I
made up in my mind was that they were learning
how to screw in a light bulb. That was the story.
There's more to come The Uncle Henry Show. Still more
to come here on news Radio sevent ten. But first
I break this, says the Uncle Henry Show. Here on
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story I want to share with you briefly. This annoys me.
Now you probably will disagree with me on this, but
the City Council of Mobile is going to be voting
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on whether or not to spend money on another, yet
another study on how to slow down traffic on Water
Street so that people can walk across Water Street and
go to the go to the new what is it
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called the Courtyard of Champions, all the statues that the
City of Mobile is putting them down there, and the
Maritime Museum and all that kind of stuff. They want
to continue to spend money studying how to slow the
traffic down on Water Street. Here is a brief report
from Fox ten on what they're voting for, and they
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talked to the mayor's chief of staff, the tightly wound
James Barber, about what this is all about.
Speaker 11 (29:45):
Thank you.
Speaker 15 (29:45):
Mobile City Council considering a contract that would make Water
Street more pedestrian friendly. The contract would pay for a
study conducted by Vulcart Inc. City officials say car speed
off the it in exit ramp and that makes crossing
Water Street dicey. James Barbara, the mayor's chief of staff,
says the goal is to narrow the street, which should
naturally slow cars down. He says that will make it
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easier for neighbors and visitors to get to places like
the new Amtrak stop, the new Hall of Fame Walk,
and as soon to be renovated Cooper Riverside Park.
Speaker 16 (30:16):
If you slow the traffic down on Water Street and
you choke it down, in other words, you get rid
of those four wide open lanes, but you keep the
pedestrian traffic and you keep the bicycle lanes in there,
it'll be narrower so that it's easier to cross. You're
crossing less lanes of traffic, and then you know, it
spakes access easier to the waterfront and it makes it
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to where it's just safer.
Speaker 17 (30:39):
Now.
Speaker 15 (30:40):
The contract is a little less than eight hundred and
thirty thousand dollars. City officials say that study will determine
how much it would cost or reconfigure the road. Council
members could vote next week.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
All right, look, please, you're going to spend money on this.
You're gonna spend money on a study and then spend
money on choking That was the word of the tightly
wound chief of staff, choking the traffic on Water Street. Now, look,
just if you're gonna spend taxpayer money on this, just
build a pedestrian bridge, or build a couple of them.
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Just build pedestrian bridges. Forget about choking the traffic on
Water Street. You've got traffic coming off of an interstate
highway and it's headed down Water Street toward I one
sixty five. The reason this annoys me so much is
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because I'm old enough to remember when they were considering
this years and years ago. The original plan was to
have traffic exit off of the interstate there, but not
go down on Water Street. The original plan was to
have an elevated expressway. They were gonna have the traffic
elevated above Water Street all the way down Water Street
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to I one sixty five. That was the plan. It
was gonna be a of the traffic. Now if they've
done that originally, If the city fathers and mothers had
done that originally, we wouldn't be having this conversation. People
wouldn't be as intimidated trying to cross Water Street to
get to all of the paradise of Cooper Riverside Park.
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The reason that we don't have an elevated highway above
Water Street is because all the businesses of Downtown Mobile
at that time, and the city fathers and mothers thought
nobody will go. Everybody's going to bypass Downtown Mobile. It'll
be a disaster for Downtown Mobile if we build an
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elevated expressway. They demanded that the traffic b street level.
People were demanding. Business leaders and city officials demanded that
all that traffic end up on Water Street. Now years
later they're demanding that there not be as much traffic
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on Water Street. It's absolutely dadgum ridiculous. They should have
built the elevated expressway, but they didn't do it. So
now here we are spending even more money on studies
on how to restrict traffic. Take Water Street from four
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lanes down to two. Take that money and build pedestrian bridges.
And I know that cost a lot of money. But
once you build them, there they are, and we won't
have this discussion anymore. People will be able to go
across and make them pretty. Make a pretty bridge. They
got one in Foley that's very nice and pretty. Just
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build some pedestrian bridges and quit messing with that traffic
on Water Street. Don't cars have rights anymore, it says
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Yes I'm still here. Yeah, I know, I know you're
kind of surprised by this, but yes, I'm still here,
still employed. They let me do this, and I have
no plans to stop, no plans to stop unless some
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type of health issue gets in the way or I'm
hit by an anvil. You know, when I was coming
up in cartoons and stuff, anvils would fall on type
of people. Did that ever happen? Did anvils ever fall
on top of people in the real world? Or is
that only in cartoons? I don't know. I guess they
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need to investigate that all right. Anyway, But here I
am Uncle Henry Show. Now this half hour of show,
going to go over some news items that I missed.
I might have time for a voicemailer two. I'm not sure,
but going to go over some news items today on
the Uncle Henry Show. I want to start with a
news item from Mobile, Alabama, Fox ten reporting on how
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the Standy Simpson administration has identified a company they think
ought to be running our buses in the city of Mobile. Now,
this has been an issue. The buses have come up
as an issue at Mobile City Council meetings where employees
of Wave Transit have gone in and complained about their
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work conditions, just a variety of complaints about their work conditions.
And then some people on the city council have talked
about whether or not the bus the buses are being
run efficiently because there's no doubt that there are people
that need to take the bus. They don't have any
other way to get around to the doctor's office, to
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their job, or wherever they're going. But is it efficient
if you've only got a few people on the bus?
Is it efficient? Could we look at different ways of
handling all this? Well, there's a company the stem Sing
administration has identified that they think should be handling the
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bus service and the city council's got to approve this.
Let's listen together, let's learn together from Fox ten about
the possible changes coming up with buses in Mobile.
Speaker 8 (36:42):
Is it buses and Mobile could soon be under new management.
Speaker 15 (36:46):
The Stimson administration selecting Via Transportation.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Takeover Via Transportation or Mobile's bus service.
Speaker 15 (36:53):
And are Shelby Myers in the studio now with what
this means?
Speaker 1 (36:55):
All right, Shelby overall you're getting positive reaction.
Speaker 8 (36:58):
Yeah, I am one easton Cameron. It's not a done
deal just yet either, but some writers union leaders and
the city are hopeful this will be a good change
from a near strike by some Wave Transit bus drivers
over what they called an unsafe work environment in March
to now. It's been a tumultuous few months for public
transportation in Mobile. Tuesday, some members of a committee within
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the Sandy Simpson administration announced they had chosen Via Transportation
to take over operations of Wave buses from the current
service operator.
Speaker 18 (37:30):
Nothing's really going to change it the first nine months,
so it's not going to be people are not going
to notice like any route change.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
But the person you're listening to is the City of
Mobile Deputy chief of Staff, Joe Snowden, Deputy chief of
I wonder if you're a deputy chief of staff, do
you get a badge of some kind? Just curious because
a lot of us, a lot of us men would
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like to have a badge if we could get one.
All right, let me back this up. Joe Snowden, the
deputy chief of staff for the Stemsen administration, telling us
about what what are we gonna notice?
Speaker 8 (38:08):
It's from the current service operator.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
Nothing's really gonna change it for nothing's gonna really change first.
Speaker 18 (38:14):
Night month, so there's not going to be people are
not going to notice like any route changes or anything.
Speaker 8 (38:19):
Transdev, which currently operates the service, was one of four
companies to bid on a new contract. The administration settled
on Via, which runs the Mogo service for the Mobile
Chamber of Commerce. Mogo is currently a limited ride share
service designed to help workers without cars commute to jobs
in the eastern part of Mobile.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Once they get full of little Bradley Burn action for
us from the Mobile Chamber. All right, let's listen to
Bradley Burn Eastern part of Mobile.
Speaker 7 (38:48):
Once they get fully integrated with Wave they'll be able
to go further out and have different routes, and by
working with Wave they can multiply the number of people
can take advance of shorter routes.
Speaker 8 (39:01):
City leaders said this new deal with VIA will also
cost the city less than the more than twelve million
they're currently budgeted to pay trans Dev.
Speaker 18 (39:09):
Instead of the increasing costs that we are seeing every
year with the current third party. This one is we
have a fixed rate of eight million dollars, so their
additional four million coming from federal grants. So for the city,
this is a great effective use of our budget.
Speaker 8 (39:28):
Amalgamated Transit Union President and Tony Mabin is hopeful the
change will be for the better for the two thirds
Wave transit workers he represents, especially since current WAVE workers
will retain their jobs with the change.
Speaker 19 (39:41):
I'm hoping that it can help out for the community
for as the different places that needs the transit system.
Hoping that we can have a better relationship with FORREDS,
labor and the company concern and things like that.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
And so do you remember the complaints we had some
of but on the Uncle Henry Show, the complaints that
some of the bus drivers had, they were some really
wild complaints and what I mean by that wild. They
would say things like if a if somebody on the
bus was was attacking you or something a big disruption,
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it was against the policy of the current company to
call the police. That you were not allowed if you
were a bus driver and you were getting attacked or something,
you were not supposed to call the police. You were
supposed to call your boss first and give permission. It
just didn't say. It just sounded uh.
Speaker 16 (40:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
Well I will I will uh, I will restrict my
comments on what it sounded like. It just didn't it did.
It did not sound like a great work environment. I'll
just put it that way.
Speaker 19 (40:50):
I'm hoping that we can have a better relationship for
labor and the company concern and things like that.
Speaker 8 (40:55):
And some bus riders we spoke with are optimistic.
Speaker 10 (40:58):
To knowing they show the people do what they need
to do, you know, and I mean a lot of
people depending on these buses.
Speaker 8 (41:06):
And mobile City Council will have to approve the choice
of VIA taking over. They're going to take up that
issue next week. VIA would maintain all of the current
routes at least until next June, nine months that is
contractually required in the studio Shelby Myers, Fox in News.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
All right, well they'll approve it. I mean via VIA's
the people doing the Mogo thing. They've already got a
proven track record of getting people to work with that
Mogo thing, and you got Bradley burn in there talking
about how great it is. So it'll get approved and
let's hope for improvement and maybe they and they're not
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going to change bus routes for what they what did
the deputies say about like nine months or something, so
they'll have time to figure out what is efficient and
what is not efficient and figure out how to get
people from point A to point B without spending too
much money or making it silly like one bus carrying
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three people or something like that. All right, now, coming
up on a break. Before we go to break, I
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and weather, and then back with more Uncle Henry Show.
Let's take the break, it says the Uncle Henry Show
(43:09):
on news radio seven to ten WNTM. News headlines coming
up in ten minutes. Before we get to the news headlines,
let me get to a news item or two now
coming up September one, There's going to be some taxes
that are lower in Alabama or eliminated. I've got the
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story here from WBrC in Birmingham. They're a stepsister station
to Fox ten. Here's one of their newspeople interviewing a
lady who runs an organization called Alabama Arise. They advocate for. Well,
I'm not sure. I don't know a lot about Alabama Rise.
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I've been blissfully ignorant. But they're happy that the grocery
tax in Alabama is going to be going down. We'll
still have a grocery tax coming up Monday on Labor Day,
but September first, the grocery tax is going to go down,
and there's some other taxes that are going to vanish.
(44:17):
So let's learn. Let's listen together. Is this anchor guy,
this news guy from WBrC talks to this lady that
is the director of Alabama Arise.
Speaker 3 (44:29):
That played a huge role in all this with the
state legislation. Executive director Robin Hyden joins us right.
Speaker 2 (44:33):
Now, Robin Hiding of Alabama Arise.
Speaker 3 (44:36):
With Alabama Rise, how are you doing, lovely? See when
you gave me that information about the diapers things, and
I just was focusing on hey, way to go.
Speaker 17 (44:45):
Well, you used our word untaxed. We invented that word
because a RISE has been working to untaxed groceries for
twenty years now. We're so excited we're halfway there. The
state grocery tax used to be four percent. It's going
down to two percent on Monday, so everyone's going to
save another cent, you know, for every dollar you spend
on groceries. But there is another tax break going into
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effect on Monday. It's called the pink tax.
Speaker 11 (45:09):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (45:09):
Before we get to the pink tax, I'll say that
I am glad that grocery taxes are going down. I
know they're not going down by a lot, but still
I am glad if you could pick things to tax.
I don't know that i'd tax food, which we do.
Speaker 17 (45:27):
So if you buy tampons, diapers, baby.
Speaker 2 (45:29):
Formula, I need to rewind this. This is something that
I I don't want to talk about these items personally,
but you the listener, you can listen and see. There
are some items that are going to start being untaxed
that you won't have to pay tax on. So let's listen.
Let me rewind.
Speaker 17 (45:46):
It on groceries. But there is another tax break going
into effect on Monday. It's called the pink tax.
Speaker 1 (45:52):
Huh.
Speaker 17 (45:52):
So if you buy tampons, diapers, baby formula, baby clothes,
nursing items, very psyched about this with a baby at home,
you will not pay any state sales taxes on those
items starting Monday. So two big steps forward for tax fairness.
Speaker 3 (46:06):
And all this adds up over time, does it not?
Speaker 10 (46:09):
It?
Speaker 17 (46:09):
Does? You know? You would think one sent not very much.
But everyone's got to eat, right, Everyone's got to you know,
if you have kids, you got to buy supplies for kids.
So for an average family of four, they're probably going
to save one hundred and fifty dollars a year on groceries,
but of course it depends on what you spend. Think
about one week worth of groceries, that's the amount you're
now saving from your grocery taxes. That whole amount you
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spend a week that you would have paid over a year.
Speaker 2 (46:35):
So that's I'm not really good with math. Maybe you
could do the Maybe you could do the work on this,
and she if she's correct, the.
Speaker 3 (46:41):
Big step for that absolutely kind of tell everybody what
Alabama Arise does in the role that it played in
all this.
Speaker 17 (46:47):
Well, we're a statewide coalition of churches, nonprofit and civic organizations.
We've got one hundred and fifty five members and thousands
of individuals across our state and we simply believe that
charity is important to address poverty. But we also have
to address state policy, and to do that, we go
to Montgomery, we speak out at the legislature, and we
come up with a list of things that we think
are the most critical to help people get out of poverty.
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So for us. You know, the way we raise taxes
in our state has been unfair. We over rely on
taxing poor people and working class folks and middle income people,
and as a result, most of us feel like, hey,
I still pay too much in taxes, but our state
doesn't have enough money to do what it needs to do.
So this is a big step forward. We've got to
continue to fight to fully untaxed groceries and other essential items,
(47:34):
but it's a great news for you know, if you
got to buy diapers, you got to buy food, it's
going to be cheaper s.
Speaker 3 (47:39):
Yeah, my right, Alabama is like only one of ten
states is still taxes groceries, and the goal is to
alleviate it completely.
Speaker 17 (47:47):
That's true. And you know the other thing is when
you get your receipt, you'll see you're still going to
pay a county or local cities tax. So that's the
other piece is your city can also reduce that grocery tax.
They're going to have to find the money some other way,
but that's.
Speaker 2 (48:02):
Gonna By the way, I've not been speaking and interrupting
this because I've been thinking in my mind what would
be what she's talking about. Unfairness in taxes. I would
would what would a fair taxing system be. Would it
be a system where every person pays the same percentage
as every other person? Would that be fair?
Speaker 17 (48:24):
That's gonna help a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (48:26):
But on Labor Day, September one, folks gonna feel a
little bit better about going to the grocery store. And
we do appreciate you coming in and kind of clearing
the air and kind of pointing us in the right direction.
Speaker 2 (48:37):
Okay, Well, that was from w b r C about
the changes coming up on September first, in terms of
grocery tax and the tax on those other items you
heard discussed, feminine hygiene, et cetera, et cetera. I'm glad
that she she explained the hygiene part and I didn't
have to explain it. All right, just about out of
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as they say in Sarahland, have a good one, as
they say in Theodore, take it easy
Speaker 10 (49:43):
All right Later
Uh, Uncle Henry, I have a suggestion for naming something
for Coach Bryant. Uh. There's been a lot of streets
in Mobile recently the names have been changed. Why not
changed the name of Airport Boulevard to Paul Bear Bryant Boulevard.
I think people would be more respectful driving on it.
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It was was being honored also and certainly named the
new bridge across the bay named after Paul Bear Bryant Bridge.
I loved the University of Alabama, and I loved Coach Bryant.
Thank you, bye bye.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
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Speaker 3 (01:54):
And thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
I appreciate very much you checking out the Uncle Henry
Show once again. Here we are, you and me together
again trying to figure out what is going on, what's
going on in the world around us. And yes, I
am still thinking about the municipal elections it took place
this week all across the state of Alabama. Still trying
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to understand and analyze all of the election results, not
just in Mobile, but in many other interesting places, so
many interesting places like Orange Beach and Robertsdale. Robertsville one
of my favorite places to drive through when I'm on
my way to places i'd rather be. Just wonderful. Just
all these election results now, by the way, just a
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programming note for you. I got a chance during the
election to interview two of the four mayor candidates. I
reached out to all four, heard back from Paul Prime
and Spiro and interviewed them. Never heard back from the
other two candidates, but I did here today. I did
(03:03):
hear from the Drummond campaign. So at some point they
said they would love to come on the show. So
at some point between now and the next voting time,
there will be an Uncle Henry interview with Representative Barbara Drummonds.
So looking for thank you, by the way, thank you
in advance to all the candidates that will come on
the show. So looking forward to talking with Representative Drummond
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about her vision for mobile. Now, speaking of all the analysis,
I'm sure you're seeing TV reports on the local TV
stations breaking down the analysis of how the votes went.
Lan Yapp has got a story up this afternoon about
how each candidate performed in different polling places. Very interesting
stuff to the political nerd type people that enjoy looking
(03:51):
in on this. I'm going to share with you the
Fox ten breakdown. Here is investigative reporter Brending Kirby, who
maybe I'm wondering if Brendan Kirby lost wait recently because
his jacket, he maybe needs to have the jacket tailored.
Here's Brendan Kirby, the investigative reporter from Fox ten, breaking
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down how the candidates performed in different polling places. And
I think you will find this quite interesting if you
are one of the people that leans to a nerdish
level on politics.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
A precinct by precint analysis shows that third place finisher
Paul Prine threw significant African American support. Political experts say
that if Representative Drummonds can consolidate that support, he could
set up a close runoff election next month. Typically, Mobile
elections follow racially polarized voting patterns, with Waite voters supporting
white candidates and African Americans winning massive black majorities. Former
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Mobile police chief Paul Prine broke that somewhat on Tuesday.
He finished second in eight of the ten precincts where
African Americans can prise at least eighty percent of the
registered voters. At Hope Community Center and Fulton Heights United
Methodist Church, he took more than twenty percent. University of
South Alabama political science professor Thomas Shaw says that Primee's
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vote distribution sets him apart from the other three candidates.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Actually, it means he basically did well with both whites
and blacks. He wasn't necessarily supported strongly by one or
the other, but rather by both groups. So it will
be very interesting to see how the Prime supporters fall
out during the actual election.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Robert Clham, Sorry, I'm pausing there just to say this
is something that I believe that the prime voters will
be a major factor. They may be the major factor
and who wins the runoff the prime voters. You heard
Brendan Kirby there. I'll return to the Brending report here
in just a moment, But you heard Brendan Kirby talking
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about Paul Prin having support among people of a variety
of ethnicities, both white and black. And this is something
that I noticed when the controversy erupted. When we first
heard the controversy and they were looking to get rid
of Paul Prine at city Hall. One of the first
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big defenders of Paul Prine on social media. One of
his biggest defenders on social media initially when it first
started was former Mobile City councilman Fred Richardson. Fred Richardson
had nothing but great things to say about Paul Prine
as a police officer. So Paul Prine apparently has a
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lot of fans of various ethnicitives right back to the
Brendan Kirby analysis.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Opting President of the Mobile County chapter of the NAACP,
says he's not surprised by Priane's performance and notes that
the other way candidates, to a lesser extent, also acted
black support. But he says he expects voting in next
month's runoff to break down stronger along race lines.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
So I definitely think that we will see less crossover
voting in these runoff elections than there was in the primary.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Spiro Cherry Goddis, who stepped down as a district judge
to run, ran strongest in the precincts with the small
share of black voters, but he and Representative Drummond both
say they're not conceding any votes.
Speaker 7 (07:32):
Next month, you can see me on the side of
the road, waving signs at you, knocking on your door,
making phone calls, being everywhere I can to meet voters
where they are.
Speaker 8 (07:43):
My entire political career, if you look at it, I
have always had crossover field. I don't look at black voters.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
And white voters.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Professor Shaw tells me that he expects most of County
Commissioner Countie Hudson's supporters to back Cherry got Us in
the on off and most of Priane's black supporters to
vote for Representative Drummond. He says that could set up
Priane's weight voters to be the decider in the election.
Reporting live in the news center, Brendan Kirby, Fox ten US.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Okay, all right, there you have it, just for the
political nerdish type of folks, little in depth analysis there.
There is more to come. I got a lot more
to get to. As The Uncle Henry Show proceeds forward
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Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. Still getting some uh some
voicemail messages from people about the election. Let me go
to this message that came in early this morning to
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the Uncle Henry Show voicemail an.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
This is.
Speaker 9 (09:52):
Henry Wilson's here, majorial raise. I got to thinking, Henry,
I got a half an idead or run from mayor
and myself.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
All right, now, before you go on, I hope you
realize it's too late. There's no way to jump into
the runoff. You'll have to wait four years. If I
understand math correctly, you're gonna have to wait. So you
come to this half of an idea, just a tad
late Bifford.
Speaker 9 (10:22):
Half an idea or run for mayor and myself, Henry,
I will run on one issue. I will be a
one issue candidate and that issue will be potholes. Henry.
You know what they got the one mobile bringing all
Mobile together, Henry. If you fill the potholes, you will
bring all citizens of Mobile together. Go down the road
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that the mayor lives on, ain't no potholes, go down
the road and economically depressed the neighborhood full of potholes, Henry.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
All right, now wait, I'm gonna pause you there. Now,
this is something I thought about. I've had these discussions. Yes,
you're wondering, do I really care about these things? Of
course I do. And when I'm off the air. One
of the reasons I have trouble maintaining relationships is because
I like to talk about things like potholes and infrastructure.
(11:18):
And for many years, up until just a few years ago, Duford,
I want you to remember how awful Old Shell Road was.
Old Shell Road was awful for years. It was awful
for years. And I used to ask people a lot
smarter than me, and there are plenty of them. I
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would ask them, I'd say, I'd say to them, you know,
some of the most influential people in this town drive
down this road. Some of the most influential people in
this town use this road to get down to downtown
Mobile and do whatever whatever type of lawyer and job
or court job or whatever they're doing down there. One
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of the most influential people in Mobile, and I would
ask people why do they let why And a lot
of the roads used to be really bad around Mobile
Country Club, and I'd say, why aren't these influential people
getting these roads fixed? So be it's not just it's
not just the great neighborhoods that have bad roads. It
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isn't Now. Maybe over the past few years since they
raised our taxes and they have been doing a little
road work over the last ten years or so, maybe
it's gotten better. But it wasn't always the case. I
can remember when the well to do also dealt with potholes.
But back to your your your half of an idea
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to run as a pothole candidate.
Speaker 9 (12:50):
Ain't no potholes go down the road and economically depressed
the neighborhood full of potholes, Henry. You know they're tired
of having the cars tore up by potholes.
Speaker 10 (13:04):
Henry.
Speaker 9 (13:05):
My campaign promise will be that I will fix all
the potholes within one year. I will I will put
every city department on pothole duty, every single one, Henry, Henry.
My campaign motto will be vote you for He'll fill
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your holes. And that's all you need to do, Henry,
is just steal the potholes and Mobile will reach its
perpetual potential. Anyway, Henry, I'm seriously thinking about it.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
You have a good day, all right, Well, think about it.
You have a lot. You have quite a while to
think about it. If you want to run for mayor
mob have you have a few years to work on
this plan and find just just fine tune it, hone it,
sharpen it. Think about it because there could be something
to it. Many people don't understand. There's so much talk
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about economic development. Have been for years. Mobile's done quite
well over the past few years, attracting a lot of
business from ount of town. But some of the best
economic development you can do is just to have great infrastructure.
That's it. Somebody comes into your town and they see
your town looks great. They might want to locate there,
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they might want to bring a business there, they might
want to move the family there. So having good infrastructure
that's a form of economic development. Betfred, I'm with you now.
If you had run, if you had come up with
this half of an idea some time ago, maybe you
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would have had it. Maybe you could have been in there,
maybe you would have come in Maybe you would have
come in third. If there were you, if we added
you to the other four, maybe you would have come
in third or fourth on this. But now we'll never know.
But but think about it. Youford trying to figure out, uh,
(15:16):
whether or not you want to do that, because I
think some people would enjoy that. Two five to one
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There's two five to one four seven nine two seven
two three. Email address Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com.
That's Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. Now on the
same topic, I also got this voicemail. This came in
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I think about a day ago.
Speaker 11 (15:47):
Henry Stormer Norman. I counted the potholes on Brookdale Drive North.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
And so this man counted some potholes. Let's hear what
it has got, do you, the listener. I'm gonna let
you guess in your mind. You can pretend that I
can hear you, even though I can't pretend I can
hear you. And I'm asking you guess how many potholes
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did the man find on Brookdale Drive North? Just guess? Okay,
thank you, for your guess. Let's find out if you're right.
Speaker 11 (16:26):
Brookdale Drive North thirty two, no joke, thirty two thirty two.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
All right now, how can you drive down this street?
Speaker 11 (16:40):
Brookdale Drives South? Nowhere near as bad. But there's one
of them thirty six inches wide and ten inches deep.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
All right now, we're getting into philosophy. Here is what
is more impactful? It be thirty two smaller potholes on
Brookdale North or one gigantic one on Brookdale South? Which
one is more impactful?
Speaker 10 (17:11):
Man?
Speaker 11 (17:11):
You talk about a pothole from heck? Ready for some
roll tide this weekend, Buddy rod ro tride road. But
I tell you what, the potholes on Brookdale Drive are
second to none, second to none.
Speaker 12 (17:30):
Have a good day.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
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dot com. That's Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. Now
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let's see more message. I've gotten more messages here if
you'd like to leave one. The voicemail numbers two five
one two one six nineteen seventy six. That's two five
one two one six nineteen seventy six. And yes, I've
received a message phoned in early this morning. It's six
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in the morning by the Trapper of Snakes.
Speaker 10 (19:04):
Hey over, Henry, snake trapper, hey man. I posted on
your social.
Speaker 13 (19:08):
Media page charms of Friday Night with Uncle Henry two
horrible potholes that I encounter on my commute to work,
Uncle Henry.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
By the way, I did not expect to get a
bunch of pothole voicemails when I got to work today.
I thought there'd be like election related you know, voicemails
and stuff like that. But now I'm I'm getting a
bunch of pothole messages. I guess this is a lesson
for me that as you sew, so shall you reap.
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I am reaping what I have sown, and I don't mind.
Speaker 10 (19:46):
And I would like to proudly say that segment two.
The horrible pothole on wolf Ridge Road as of August
to twenty eighth, Uncle Henry. This morning as I come through,
there was fixed. So man, I am totally surprised.
Speaker 11 (20:06):
Now the one at.
Speaker 10 (20:07):
Watson in Main Street, it's still got a green circle
around it with three cones kicking in it. I hadn't
done nothing did. But what I would like to say
is what I've learned this experience over, Henry. If you
got horrible potholes that can potentially cause death or rex
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u post it posted on social media on entry because
there ain't no doubt in my mind.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
I'm sorry to pause this, but I've never I've never
sat and pondered a pothole that can potentially cause death.
Now I'm sure they can. I've never contemplated that before. See,
this is kind of dark. I'm gonna have this. I'm
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I might have to spend some time over the Labor
Day weekend just pondering, maybe sit in a dark room
with the Bible and ponder the potholes of death.
Speaker 10 (21:08):
That that action got that pothole fixed. I mean, it
is a horrible one. I don't know if you checked
it out or not, but man, it was a front
end record, Uncle Henry. And the only thing they've been
doing about it for the past years. A couple of
times they'd put sand in it and next time the
rain washed right out. But yes, sir, as of this morning,
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August of twenty eighth, that pothole has been fixed. A man,
So I'd recommend if you got horrible potholes out there,
post them on social media, letting people know how dangerous
they are, and you know, the city will be libel.
I guess if they know that hazards there and did.
Speaker 11 (21:49):
Not fix it.
Speaker 10 (21:50):
But I just want to share that with you, my buddy.
Speaker 11 (21:53):
You take care, Snake.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Trapor Thank you. That was thought provoking and a public
service and you've got me and now I've got a
new avenue. Thought. I need to be more deliberative and
sober when I think about the impact of potholes, the
potential death causing potholes around the city of Mobile in
the county two five one four seven nine two seven
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two three. The telephone number that's two five to one
four seven nine two seven two three. Snake Trapper recommending
that people post pictures on social media. You know, all
the people that like to post mug shots. It's too
bad we can't make the potholes just as as postworthy
as the mug shots. Hello, color that name, Henry, Yes, sir,
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you are live on the radio.
Speaker 14 (22:41):
Yeah, this is a this is a political and a
pothole update.
Speaker 10 (22:45):
You know.
Speaker 14 (22:45):
I called in last week, I guess it was Friday
before the election, and I told you my road, which
I thought was in good shape that's on the border
of the city in the county, was mysteriously for some
reason repays yes, portion of it, and very very glad
of that. I want to give you an update on that.
They have now come back and redressed the sides and
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have laid side now they they did not they have left.
They still don't have stripping up and uh they have
not watered the sod at all. And I know that that,
Uh that's a process that has to happen on road
building when they do that, but that still hasn't happened yet.
And uh now now we look at dead side on
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both sides of the road since that happened on Friday afternoon,
uh after I called you. So update there on the
political side of that, that was a mystery that all
of a sudden up before the election, that that particular
piece of pavement got paved on the boundary. So uh
and then uh, then the side all all all of
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a sudden appeared and now it's dead. So that's alit.
My political end, my my road update for the day.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
All right, well, hey, before there you go, now the song.
We're about to get some rain tonight and tomorrow. Is
it too late for the rain to revive the sod?
Speaker 14 (24:09):
I was, I was, I'm I'm guessing eighty five to
ninety percent gone, it was being my estimation.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
All right, Well, I hate to hear that. I hate
to I always hate to hear sod going to.
Speaker 14 (24:20):
Waste, absolutely absolutely, but none was wasted on the road.
All the pieces made it intact and on the side,
so nothing was wasted there. It was all wasted in
place as it should have been. So we got that
going on.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
All right. Well, there you go, Well, positives and negatives
out there, all right? Well, absolutely, well, thank you so
much for the update on that.
Speaker 14 (24:45):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
That would good one you too. There you goes two five, one, four,
seven nine two three the telephone number here on the
unc Leanner show. Now, a few years ago I guess
this would have been maybe about three years years ago.
The neighborhood that I was living in in Midtown. I'm
not there anymore, but I was in a neighborhood in
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Midtown that out of the blue they came in and
resurfaced the streets. It's something that I never expected to
happen while I lived in Mobile, but there comes the
City of Mobile. They resurfaced those streets and apparently, and
again this was about three years ago. Apparently it wasn't
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done properly, and so they had to come back in
and do the whole thing again. So maybe it was
a learning experience for everybody involved, but not everything is five.
The reason I brought that up is it's not always perfect.
It's not always perfect. Even the people that are working
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for the governmental entities in charge of this have to
learn sooner or later. So it may have been a
learning experience out there with this man and his road,
and they'll do better next time. In fact, it was
about twenty five years ago. I was in a city
park and there were seven workers there. And this is
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not I'm not telling you this to lead up to
a punchline or anything. This was the park where now
there's a skateboard park and all this kind of stuff
there there in midtown. But years ago there was no
skateboard park or dog park or anything like that. It
was just a park. I was there maybe twenty five
years ago or so, and seven city workers. I counted
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them because I noticed it took seven of them, seven
of them to change the light bulbs. They were changing
light bulbs down there, and they had seven people, and
actually two people were doing stuff and the rest of
them were watching with great interest, and I had to
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make up a story in my mind. The story I
made up in my mind was that they were learning
how to screw in a light bulb. That was the story.
There's more to come The Uncle Henry Show. Still more
to come here on news Radio sevent ten. But first
I break this, says the Uncle Henry Show. Here on
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News Radio seven ten WNTM. It is five point fifty
news headlines coming up in ten minutes, and then more
Uncle Henry's Show. I want to remind you you can
hear me on FM radio. I'm on ninety five KSJ
playing country music every weekday, Monday through Friday, between ten
(28:11):
and two tomorrow, I will have your chance to win
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They're going to be in concert October second at the
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to win on ninety five KSJ. Now, I've got a
story I want to share with you briefly. This annoys me.
Now you probably will disagree with me on this, but
the City Council of Mobile is going to be voting
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on whether or not to spend money on another, yet
another study on how to slow down traffic on Water
Street so that people can walk across Water Street and
go to the go to the new what is it
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called the Courtyard of Champions, all the statues that the
City of Mobile is putting them down there, and the
Maritime Museum and all that kind of stuff. They want
to continue to spend money studying how to slow the
traffic down on Water Street. Here is a brief report
from Fox ten on what they're voting for, and they
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talked to the mayor's chief of staff, the tightly wound
James Barber, about what this is all about.
Speaker 11 (29:45):
Thank you.
Speaker 15 (29:45):
Mobile City Council considering a contract that would make Water
Street more pedestrian friendly. The contract would pay for a
study conducted by Vulcart Inc. City officials say car speed
off the it in exit ramp and that makes crossing
Water Street dicey. James Barbara, the mayor's chief of staff,
says the goal is to narrow the street, which should
naturally slow cars down. He says that will make it
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easier for neighbors and visitors to get to places like
the new Amtrak stop, the new Hall of Fame Walk,
and as soon to be renovated Cooper Riverside Park.
Speaker 16 (30:16):
If you slow the traffic down on Water Street and
you choke it down, in other words, you get rid
of those four wide open lanes, but you keep the
pedestrian traffic and you keep the bicycle lanes in there,
it'll be narrower so that it's easier to cross. You're
crossing less lanes of traffic, and then you know, it
spakes access easier to the waterfront and it makes it
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to where it's just safer.
Speaker 17 (30:39):
Now.
Speaker 15 (30:40):
The contract is a little less than eight hundred and
thirty thousand dollars. City officials say that study will determine
how much it would cost or reconfigure the road. Council
members could vote next week.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
All right, look, please, you're going to spend money on this.
You're gonna spend money on a study and then spend
money on choking That was the word of the tightly
wound chief of staff, choking the traffic on Water Street. Now, look,
just if you're gonna spend taxpayer money on this, just
build a pedestrian bridge, or build a couple of them.
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Just build pedestrian bridges. Forget about choking the traffic on
Water Street. You've got traffic coming off of an interstate
highway and it's headed down Water Street toward I one
sixty five. The reason this annoys me so much is
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because I'm old enough to remember when they were considering
this years and years ago. The original plan was to
have traffic exit off of the interstate there, but not
go down on Water Street. The original plan was to
have an elevated expressway. They were gonna have the traffic
elevated above Water Street all the way down Water Street
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to I one sixty five. That was the plan. It
was gonna be a of the traffic. Now if they've
done that originally, If the city fathers and mothers had
done that originally, we wouldn't be having this conversation. People
wouldn't be as intimidated trying to cross Water Street to
get to all of the paradise of Cooper Riverside Park.
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The reason that we don't have an elevated highway above
Water Street is because all the businesses of Downtown Mobile
at that time, and the city fathers and mothers thought
nobody will go. Everybody's going to bypass Downtown Mobile. It'll
be a disaster for Downtown Mobile if we build an
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elevated expressway. They demanded that the traffic b street level.
People were demanding. Business leaders and city officials demanded that
all that traffic end up on Water Street. Now years
later they're demanding that there not be as much traffic
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on Water Street. It's absolutely dadgum ridiculous. They should have
built the elevated expressway, but they didn't do it. So
now here we are spending even more money on studies
on how to restrict traffic. Take Water Street from four
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lanes down to two. Take that money and build pedestrian bridges.
And I know that cost a lot of money. But
once you build them, there they are, and we won't
have this discussion anymore. People will be able to go
across and make them pretty. Make a pretty bridge. They
got one in Foley that's very nice and pretty. Just
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build some pedestrian bridges and quit messing with that traffic
on Water Street. Don't cars have rights anymore, it says
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the Uncle Henry's show on news radio seventy ten WNTM.
Yes I'm still here. Yeah, I know, I know you're
kind of surprised by this, but yes, I'm still here,
still employed. They let me do this, and I have
no plans to stop, no plans to stop unless some
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type of health issue gets in the way or I'm
hit by an anvil. You know, when I was coming
up in cartoons and stuff, anvils would fall on type
of people. Did that ever happen? Did anvils ever fall
on top of people in the real world? Or is
that only in cartoons? I don't know. I guess they
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need to investigate that all right. Anyway, But here I
am Uncle Henry Show. Now this half hour of show,
going to go over some news items that I missed.
I might have time for a voicemailer two. I'm not sure,
but going to go over some news items today on
the Uncle Henry Show. I want to start with a
news item from Mobile, Alabama, Fox ten reporting on how
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the Standy Simpson administration has identified a company they think
ought to be running our buses in the city of Mobile. Now,
this has been an issue. The buses have come up
as an issue at Mobile City Council meetings where employees
of Wave Transit have gone in and complained about their
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work conditions, just a variety of complaints about their work conditions.
And then some people on the city council have talked
about whether or not the bus the buses are being
run efficiently because there's no doubt that there are people
that need to take the bus. They don't have any
other way to get around to the doctor's office, to
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their job, or wherever they're going. But is it efficient
if you've only got a few people on the bus?
Is it efficient? Could we look at different ways of
handling all this? Well, there's a company the stem Sing
administration has identified that they think should be handling the
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bus service and the city council's got to approve this.
Let's listen together, let's learn together from Fox ten about
the possible changes coming up with buses in Mobile.
Speaker 8 (36:42):
Is it buses and Mobile could soon be under new management.
Speaker 15 (36:46):
The Stimson administration selecting Via Transportation.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Takeover Via Transportation or Mobile's bus service.
Speaker 15 (36:53):
And are Shelby Myers in the studio now with what
this means?
Speaker 1 (36:55):
All right, Shelby overall you're getting positive reaction.
Speaker 8 (36:58):
Yeah, I am one easton Cameron. It's not a done
deal just yet either, but some writers union leaders and
the city are hopeful this will be a good change
from a near strike by some Wave Transit bus drivers
over what they called an unsafe work environment in March
to now. It's been a tumultuous few months for public
transportation in Mobile. Tuesday, some members of a committee within
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the Sandy Simpson administration announced they had chosen Via Transportation
to take over operations of Wave buses from the current
service operator.
Speaker 18 (37:30):
Nothing's really going to change it the first nine months,
so it's not going to be people are not going
to notice like any route change.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
But the person you're listening to is the City of
Mobile Deputy chief of Staff, Joe Snowden, Deputy chief of
I wonder if you're a deputy chief of staff, do
you get a badge of some kind? Just curious because
a lot of us, a lot of us men would
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like to have a badge if we could get one.
All right, let me back this up. Joe Snowden, the
deputy chief of staff for the Stemsen administration, telling us
about what what are we gonna notice?
Speaker 8 (38:08):
It's from the current service operator.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
Nothing's really gonna change it for nothing's gonna really change first.
Speaker 18 (38:14):
Night month, so there's not going to be people are
not going to notice like any route changes or anything.
Speaker 8 (38:19):
Transdev, which currently operates the service, was one of four
companies to bid on a new contract. The administration settled
on Via, which runs the Mogo service for the Mobile
Chamber of Commerce. Mogo is currently a limited ride share
service designed to help workers without cars commute to jobs
in the eastern part of Mobile.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Once they get full of little Bradley Burn action for
us from the Mobile Chamber. All right, let's listen to
Bradley Burn Eastern part of Mobile.
Speaker 7 (38:48):
Once they get fully integrated with Wave they'll be able
to go further out and have different routes, and by
working with Wave they can multiply the number of people
can take advance of shorter routes.
Speaker 8 (39:01):
City leaders said this new deal with VIA will also
cost the city less than the more than twelve million
they're currently budgeted to pay trans Dev.
Speaker 18 (39:09):
Instead of the increasing costs that we are seeing every
year with the current third party. This one is we
have a fixed rate of eight million dollars, so their
additional four million coming from federal grants. So for the city,
this is a great effective use of our budget.
Speaker 8 (39:28):
Amalgamated Transit Union President and Tony Mabin is hopeful the
change will be for the better for the two thirds
Wave transit workers he represents, especially since current WAVE workers
will retain their jobs with the change.
Speaker 19 (39:41):
I'm hoping that it can help out for the community
for as the different places that needs the transit system.
Hoping that we can have a better relationship with FORREDS,
labor and the company concern and things like that.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
And so do you remember the complaints we had some
of but on the Uncle Henry Show, the complaints that
some of the bus drivers had, they were some really
wild complaints and what I mean by that wild. They
would say things like if a if somebody on the
bus was was attacking you or something a big disruption,
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it was against the policy of the current company to
call the police. That you were not allowed if you
were a bus driver and you were getting attacked or something,
you were not supposed to call the police. You were
supposed to call your boss first and give permission. It
just didn't say. It just sounded uh.
Speaker 16 (40:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
Well I will I will uh, I will restrict my
comments on what it sounded like. It just didn't it did.
It did not sound like a great work environment. I'll
just put it that way.
Speaker 19 (40:50):
I'm hoping that we can have a better relationship for
labor and the company concern and things like that.
Speaker 8 (40:55):
And some bus riders we spoke with are optimistic.
Speaker 10 (40:58):
To knowing they show the people do what they need
to do, you know, and I mean a lot of
people depending on these buses.
Speaker 8 (41:06):
And mobile City Council will have to approve the choice
of VIA taking over. They're going to take up that
issue next week. VIA would maintain all of the current
routes at least until next June, nine months that is
contractually required in the studio Shelby Myers, Fox in News.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
All right, well they'll approve it. I mean via VIA's
the people doing the Mogo thing. They've already got a
proven track record of getting people to work with that
Mogo thing, and you got Bradley burn in there talking
about how great it is. So it'll get approved and
let's hope for improvement and maybe they and they're not
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going to change bus routes for what they what did
the deputies say about like nine months or something, so
they'll have time to figure out what is efficient and
what is not efficient and figure out how to get
people from point A to point B without spending too
much money or making it silly like one bus carrying
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three people or something like that. All right, now, coming
up on a break. Before we go to break, I
want to let you know that you can always leave
me a message the Uncle Henry Show voicemail number if
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two one six, nineteen seventy six. That's two five one
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and there's no local show to call, So you can
call two five one two one six, nineteen seventy six
and leave a message, even at two o'clock in the morning.
It might make it to the Uncle Henry Show. All right,
(42:44):
let me go ahead and take a break for traffic
and weather, and then back with more Uncle Henry Show.
Let's take the break, it says the Uncle Henry Show
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on news radio seven to ten WNTM. News headlines coming
up in ten minutes. Before we get to the news headlines,
let me get to a news item or two now
coming up September one, There's going to be some taxes
that are lower in Alabama or eliminated. I've got the
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story here from WBrC in Birmingham. They're a stepsister station
to Fox ten. Here's one of their newspeople interviewing a
lady who runs an organization called Alabama Arise. They advocate for. Well,
I'm not sure. I don't know a lot about Alabama Rise.
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I've been blissfully ignorant. But they're happy that the grocery
tax in Alabama is going to be going down. We'll
still have a grocery tax coming up Monday on Labor Day,
but September first, the grocery tax is going to go down,
and there's some other taxes that are going to vanish.
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So let's learn. Let's listen together. Is this anchor guy,
this news guy from WBrC talks to this lady that
is the director of Alabama Arise.
Speaker 3 (44:29):
That played a huge role in all this with the
state legislation. Executive director Robin Hyden joins us right.
Speaker 2 (44:33):
Now, Robin Hiding of Alabama Arise.
Speaker 3 (44:36):
With Alabama Rise, how are you doing, lovely? See when
you gave me that information about the diapers things, and
I just was focusing on hey, way to go.
Speaker 17 (44:45):
Well, you used our word untaxed. We invented that word
because a RISE has been working to untaxed groceries for
twenty years now. We're so excited we're halfway there. The
state grocery tax used to be four percent. It's going
down to two percent on Monday, so everyone's going to
save another cent, you know, for every dollar you spend
on groceries. But there is another tax break going into
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effect on Monday. It's called the pink tax.
Speaker 11 (45:09):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (45:09):
Before we get to the pink tax, I'll say that
I am glad that grocery taxes are going down. I
know they're not going down by a lot, but still
I am glad if you could pick things to tax.
I don't know that i'd tax food, which we do.
Speaker 17 (45:27):
So if you buy tampons, diapers, baby.
Speaker 2 (45:29):
Formula, I need to rewind this. This is something that
I I don't want to talk about these items personally,
but you the listener, you can listen and see. There
are some items that are going to start being untaxed
that you won't have to pay tax on. So let's listen.
Let me rewind.
Speaker 17 (45:46):
It on groceries. But there is another tax break going
into effect on Monday. It's called the pink tax.
Speaker 1 (45:52):
Huh.
Speaker 17 (45:52):
So if you buy tampons, diapers, baby formula, baby clothes,
nursing items, very psyched about this with a baby at home,
you will not pay any state sales taxes on those
items starting Monday. So two big steps forward for tax fairness.
Speaker 3 (46:06):
And all this adds up over time, does it not?
Speaker 10 (46:09):
It?
Speaker 17 (46:09):
Does? You know? You would think one sent not very much.
But everyone's got to eat, right, Everyone's got to you know,
if you have kids, you got to buy supplies for kids.
So for an average family of four, they're probably going
to save one hundred and fifty dollars a year on groceries,
but of course it depends on what you spend. Think
about one week worth of groceries, that's the amount you're
now saving from your grocery taxes. That whole amount you
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spend a week that you would have paid over a year.
Speaker 2 (46:35):
So that's I'm not really good with math. Maybe you
could do the Maybe you could do the work on this,
and she if she's correct, the.
Speaker 3 (46:41):
Big step for that absolutely kind of tell everybody what
Alabama Arise does in the role that it played in
all this.
Speaker 17 (46:47):
Well, we're a statewide coalition of churches, nonprofit and civic organizations.
We've got one hundred and fifty five members and thousands
of individuals across our state and we simply believe that
charity is important to address poverty. But we also have
to address state policy, and to do that, we go
to Montgomery, we speak out at the legislature, and we
come up with a list of things that we think
are the most critical to help people get out of poverty.
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So for us. You know, the way we raise taxes
in our state has been unfair. We over rely on
taxing poor people and working class folks and middle income people,
and as a result, most of us feel like, hey,
I still pay too much in taxes, but our state
doesn't have enough money to do what it needs to do.
So this is a big step forward. We've got to
continue to fight to fully untaxed groceries and other essential items,
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but it's a great news for you know, if you
got to buy diapers, you got to buy food, it's
going to be cheaper s.
Speaker 3 (47:39):
Yeah, my right, Alabama is like only one of ten
states is still taxes groceries, and the goal is to
alleviate it completely.
Speaker 17 (47:47):
That's true. And you know the other thing is when
you get your receipt, you'll see you're still going to
pay a county or local cities tax. So that's the
other piece is your city can also reduce that grocery tax.
They're going to have to find the money some other way,
but that's.
Speaker 2 (48:02):
Gonna By the way, I've not been speaking and interrupting
this because I've been thinking in my mind what would
be what she's talking about. Unfairness in taxes. I would
would what would a fair taxing system be. Would it
be a system where every person pays the same percentage
as every other person? Would that be fair?
Speaker 17 (48:24):
That's gonna help a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (48:26):
But on Labor Day, September one, folks gonna feel a
little bit better about going to the grocery store. And
we do appreciate you coming in and kind of clearing
the air and kind of pointing us in the right direction.
Speaker 2 (48:37):
Okay, Well, that was from w b r C about
the changes coming up on September first, in terms of
grocery tax and the tax on those other items you
heard discussed, feminine hygiene, et cetera, et cetera. I'm glad
that she she explained the hygiene part and I didn't
have to explain it. All right, just about out of
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time for this edition of the Uncle Henry Show. If
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of the shows before, during, and after the election, for example,
you can find all those programs available as podcasts. They're
available on the iHeartRadio app. Look for Uncle Henry's Show
(49:21):
on the iHeartRadio app. When you find it. You can
even set a preset in the app, so the Uncle
Henry Show will pop up anytime there's a new episode
for you there on the iHeartRadio app. Thank you for listening,
as they say in Sarahland, have a good one, as
they say in Theodore, take it easy
Speaker 10 (49:43):
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