Down In Alabama With Ike Morgan

Today's updates include Tuberville responding to residency challenges, an aircraft carrier in Mobile, and a sentence for a key figure in a car-theft operation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Let's talk about vaping rules, the meteorology calendar and mail carriers with dog bites. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There's a new report out on the potential permanent placement of U.S. Space Command, an update on who's running for Senate, an Alabamian getting a hit in his first at-bat, and the grandson of President Tyler just died. We'll do the math. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we'll take a peek at the field so far for next year's U.S. Senate election, Saharan dust heading our way, and a warning over how you're charging your phones at the airport. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we have politics, surprise weather and another gator tale. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alabama's parole board has proposed changes to its guidelines. An "aviation" high school is about to celebrate its first graduating class. And North Dakota is raising its maximum speed limit ... for those who might happen to be passing through North Dakota anytime soon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we have a boat-crash lawsuit, the passing of a TV news anchor and some college baseball. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we have the death of Alabama's oldest prison inmate. Then we'll go outdoors with briefs on game wardens, a lake drawdown and a gator in a Huntsville neighborhood. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We'll talk about an old attempted-murder case involving a snake-handler, the latest on Campaign '26, and Tuesday's tornado count so far. Then we'll talk about the origin of the name of a roadway familiar to some of you beach-goers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we're going to start at that sometimes broad area where politics and crime overlap, and we'll end up talking about barbecue. Nick Saban will come up somewhere along the way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we have veteran and soon-to-be-retired features writer Bob Carlton. For the past couple decades you've read his reporting on the food beat in Alabama, particularly central Alabama, but he's done stories on all kinds of people and movies and even Miss Terry Saban. Here is some of the work we highlight in the interview: Highlands' big win Banks vs. Woodlawn Jimmy Koikas's feature obit More stories by Bob Carlton But first, we're going to go ahead and kick off Election 2026 because who can wait? Also, we'll briefly look at the Alabama connections in Kash Patel's Fox interview and why weather radio may be down for some during an inopportune time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New census estimates, an airport opening and ballpark upgrades. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we have another Alabama News Quiz, so make sure you stick around for that. First, we've reached the end of Arthur Bremer's sentence, we'll talk about why the Gulf of America bill didn't get final approval, and there are more police drones coming to our skies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Yesterday was the final day of the 2025 Legislative session. Lawmakers left a parting gift for the governor and those in law enforcement rooting for the "Back the Blue" bill to make it through. We'll have that, a fluoride update and a moonlighting mayor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A couple things to look for on the final working day of the 2025 legislative session; obesity state rankings; some of the pairings in the Regions Tradition Celebrity Pro-Am. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Let's talk about the Interstate rocket, Space Command, tariff requests and dog names. Then at the end we'll go way back in the archives for a story about the time a couple of Birmingham News journalists followed a car that had a dude's hand sticking out of the trunk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we'll talk about Tuberville and swatting, Britt and Fetterman, and S. Epatha Merkerson's gift for Talladega College. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We have an update on the University of Alabama doctoral student in ICE custody, a ruling on the 2023 Congressional re-districting that didn't take, the Teacher of the Year and life expectancy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We have why a city is throwing out 58 felony cases, what Nick Saban's next gig might be, how much NEA money is being pulled from the Sidewalk Film Festival and what's shaking in the waning days of the Legislative session. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we have THC regulation, a venue's demolition, and an ID deadline today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices