Down In Alabama With Ike Morgan

Gov. Kay Ivey's 11th-hour legislative priorities, fluoridation of drinking water, and an Albertville DJ's passing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Let's look at shark-attack alerts, possible grant money for struggling hospitals and one more bike with Bo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we have items on Trump in Tuscaloosa, a hospital in Thomasville and a preacher who passed away after more than 70 years in the pulpit. Then we're going to have a listener come on and take this week's news quiz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we have state budgets passed, a Back the Blue bill, termite damage at the Cathedral-Basilica of the Immaculate Conception and some possible weather. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Could anyone show up at the University of Alabama graduation event who might be a bigger draw than President Trump? If so, it's probably former coach Nick Saban. Also today, we have some public-safety bills, a marsupial on the loose and a big shipping company's decision to scale back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we have good news for salamanders, a short-term weather outlook, a wild turkey-hunting story and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We have what survey respondents said about the southern accent (you might want to believe this survey) and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we'll talk about Tuberville's pending decision, Coca-Cola construction, Gulf Coast Amtrak and the Mullet Toss, and we'll have a listener come on the show to take our Alabama News Quiz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we'll talk about we have Kash Patel's promise, chronic wasting disease in Georgia and a festival to honor Sun Ra. Then we'll bring on guest Adam Schwartz. He's a writer, producer, filmmaker and actor who's best known for his ongoing work with the sketch comedy brand It's a Southern Thing. Here are some links to some of Adam's (and It's a Southern Thing's) work that we talk about: It's a Southern Thing on Facebook Most recent sketch (the bugs are plotting) If GPS navigation were southern "Broken News" pilot Choosing your grandma name is serious business If the Twilight Zone were southern How southerners learn to drive Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we'll talk about Alabama's likely next execution, possibly more CHOOSE Act money, Trump's Tuscaloosa speech and a really old Selma hotel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we have some Alabama reaction to the Pope's death, the president's possible next visit to our state, and a real-estate surge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we'll catch up on some news from over the weekend, then do something different: AL.com has a really promising high school student reporter just finishing up her internship with us -- as well as her high school career -- and we're going to give her the Down in Alabama exit interview of sorts. See Breonna Atkins' AL.com work here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we have the GOP muscling up in the state Senate, $10 million in a workplace civil suit, hurricane-season predictions and the Alabama News Quiz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we have a tragic boat crash on Smith Lake, a judge's heart attack, another Tarrant story, a drone crime and a Legislative roundup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today: help for pharmacists, more cruise lines, jobs in Macon County and a bur under James Spann's saddle. Also: where "Jubilee City," the nickname of Daphne, Ala., came from. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trump's anti-DEI request, the passing of former Alabama and Auburn assistant college football coach Bill Oliver, a new air-defense facility and those lights on the Regions Building in Birmingham. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we have capitol reporter Mike Cason on the show to set up the home stretch of the 2025 Legislative Session. First we have a notice that went out to some registered voters they'll need to get squared away, the DOJ backing out of an agreement it says is too DEI, and why a few hundred people spent the night in planes in Montgomery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we're going to bring back the Alabama News Quiz, and welcome back AL.com's executive producer for podcasting John Hammontree to sit in the hot seat. First, though, we'll get started today with an update on another financially strapped university, gun charges for a city magistrate, Bruce Pearl's new non-basketball position, and possibly a new water park in Mobile. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Let's talk about stuffed-bird smuggling, a naughty prank on a few lawmakers and a cold case that now has an arrest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the briefing today we have more news out of Tarrant, a new suicide-prevention law, how many applied for CHOOSE Act funds and why John Rogers is out of prison. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices