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Sep 7, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
I'm covering the holiday for @aldotcom today and it's with a heavy heart that I share this sad news for everyone in the Birmingham area and beyond. Mike Wilson, the pitmaster behind @sawsbbq - my personal all-time favorite barbecue - has passed away. al.com/news/2020/09/m…
For people unacquainted w/ the glory of Saw's, its claim to fame is the meatiest, tastiest NC-style (Wilson grew up in Charlotte) pork BBQ around. But Saw's also makes my favorite burger in the world, amazing wings, etc. & has been named best BBQ in America by multiple outlets.
And by all accounts, Mike Wilson was a great guy who lived to make great food and bring people together. Saw's will go on, but this is a very tragic loss, particularly given how young he was. Sad day.
One more thing. Wilson created one of the world's best culinary experiences: Pork 'n' Greens. A pile of perfect pork BBQ atop collard greens & a huge plate of cheddar grits, all topped w/ fried onions. Been a diehard fan since I first had it, one day after we moved here in 2015. Image

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Mar 26, 2022
Citing a “long history of serious deficiencies,” ICE has announced it will not longer house immigration detainees in the Etowah County jail al.com/news/2022/03/i…
This announcement comes six years after ICE toured the Alabama facility and issued a report detailing numerous failings including safety concerns and subpar food and health care. ice.gov/doclib/foia/od…
ICE’s announcement also comes four years after I reported that Etowah County’s former sheriff pocketed more than $1.5 million of federal money that was allocated to feed ICE detainees. al.com/news/2018/12/h…
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Aug 28, 2021
Creeping on Charles Barkley at a COVID vaccination drive at Birmingham’s Legion Field just now. Story tk later today on @aldotcom.
Here’s more about the event if you’d like to come out and get the shot and meet Charles Barkley this afternoon. He’s been a prominent advocate for vaccination in Alabama and beyond.
Kabria Rembert, 20, said she got the vaccination here today because: “I’m young and I don’t have any underlying conditions, but I’ve got to take care of the people around me. I’m just trying not to be selfish.”
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Aug 27, 2021
With mobile morgues in place in Mobile Co., AL’s health officer said today “there’s no room to put these bodies.” In March 2020, I wrote about AL’s mass-casualty plans. They include mass burials & cremations and temporary internments. A terrifying prospect al.com/news/2020/03/w… ImageImageImage
Worth noting: These plans are still up on the AL Dept of Public Health website. And the ADPH’s general counsel told me last March “Alabama will continue to follow its disaster and pandemic planning documents, according each individual respect and dignity.” alabamapublichealth.gov/pandemicflu/as…
Here’s the slide deck for a 2009 presentation state health officer Scott Harris led to educate coroners on what their roles would be if there were to be a high-casualty pandemic. One slide is titled “Mass burial planning.” It’s still up on ADPH’s website. alabamapublichealth.gov/CEP/assets/Fat… ImageImageImage
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Aug 18, 2021
Tonight, Alabama has zero open ICU beds. Worth remembering that until last March, AL had a discriminatory protocol in place advising hospitals low on ventilators to take patients w/ certain diagnoses & disabilities off vents to free them up for others. 1/7 al.com/news/2020/03/l…
The protocol stated that during a worst-case scenario pandemic, Alabama hospitals should “not offer mechanical ventilator support for patients” w/ any of a long list of medical issues and intellectual disabilities. 2/7
Four days after I reported on the existence of the protocol, which the state health department later said was only a suggestion, the U.S. Dept of Health & Human Service’s Civil Rights Office issued a bulletin warning states against discriminatory ventilator triage practices. 3/7
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Aug 18, 2021
Random Alabama factoid that still blows my mind 3 years after I found out about it: The municipal laws for municipalities in 18 counties are not available on any state website and the state does not have them in any digital format. 1/3
I was told this is because the state's contract to have them digitized ran out after Mobile County. The laws - *which are part of the state code* - were being digitized county by county in alphabetical order. So Mobile County is online, but Monroe, Montgomery, etc. are not. 2/3
When I needed to look through them for a story, there was no official way to access the text of all the municipal laws in the state w/o physically going to each county. I eventually tracked down a paper copy of the full state code at the 3rd law school I called. Good times. 3/3
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Jan 25, 2021
Update on my March reporting for @propublica & @aldotcom: In multiple Alabama counties, ppl w/ >2 felony convictions are still being charged w/ failing to register as repeat felons & failing to present "felon ID" to police, crimes punishable by up to a year in jail & fines. 1/6
Alabama is the only state w/ state laws requiring 3-time felons to register & carry "felon ID," which even most lawyers & felons have never heard of. Ppl do end up serving real jail time for violating the laws, which are only enforced in some counties. 2/6 propublica.org/article/a-litt…
As a result of my reporting on this arbitrary regime, some Alabama sheriffs said they'd only enforce the laws in tandem w/ other charges. But ppl are still being punished for violating them alone. And the tally mounts, w/ hundreds of people arrested on the charges since 2014. 3/6
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