I spent a couple of months researching and interviewing for this piece, which I posted last week. Former students share harrowing stories of life inside […]
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A battle for the soul of the schools
Lately I’ve been reporting on the complex web of issues surrounding the 2015-2016 school year in Huntsville City Schools. The biggest component was a piece […]
Desegregation changes roil Huntsville parents
Court-ordered school integration efforts are rare these days. School desegregation peaked in the late 1980s and federal judges have released hundreds of school districts across the South from court-enforced […]
Autism therapy costs are steeper on Alabama families
It was a bad morning. After months of work, Ashley Sparks had finally gotten her 5-year-old daughter Brinley to a point where she could put […]
‘Our practice may not be a good fit’: LGBT child unwelcome at Christian pediatrician’s office
(column) Mike* is the kind of precocious kid you often find in literature but rarely meet in real life – almost adult-like in his mannerisms […]
When Mother’s Day is also about loss. And peace.
I wrote a Mother’s Day column for AL.com this week. I didn’t set out meaning to write one; I just opened a Word document and […]
Alabama women drive 50+ miles to deliver their babies
The day before Sommer Curry was scheduled to deliver her baby in early September last year, she got in her car and drove to the […]