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Hoover council to consider buying Lorna Road office building for $1.9 million | #citycouncil

The Hoover City Council on Monday night is scheduled to vote on whether to spend $1.9 million to buy an office building on Lorna Road for a relocation of Fire Department administrative offices. The property in question is the Lorna Professional Building at 3021 Lorna Road, currently owned by Ratliff Partners. Hoover Mayor Frank Brocato […]

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Alabama

Two Hoover residents win seats in Alabama Legislature | #elections | #alabama

The city of Hoover has never had one of its residents serving in the state Legislature, and now after Tuesday’s general election, it will have two. Hoover Councilman Mike Shaw and Greystone resident Susan DuBose both won their respective races for Alabama House Districts 47 and 45. Shaw, a Republican, defeated Democrat Christian Coleman in […]

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Hoover City Council at odds over changes in YouTube recordings | #citycouncil

For more than five years, the Hoover City Council has been recording and broadcasting its meetings on a city YouTube channel, and those meetings were available for anyone to go back and review at any time. That’s no longer the case. At some point this year, videos of previous Hoover public meetings were removed from […]

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Alabama

Is this seat taken: School system, ‘culture wars’ headline issues in upcoming council elections | #elections | #alabama

Mountain Brook residents will head to the polls Aug. 23 to select representatives for three of their five City Council seats. For some of the new faces among the candidates, concerns about the school system and cultural hot-button topics were the driving forces behind their decisions to run for office. But city services, infrastructure and […]

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Alabama

Is this seat taken: School system, ‘culture wars’ headline issues in upcoming council elections | #elections | #alabama

Mountain Brook residents will head to the polls Aug. 23 to select representatives for three of their five City Council seats. For some of the new faces among the candidates, concerns about the school system and cultural hot-button topics were the driving forces behind their decisions to run for office. But city services, infrastructure and […]

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Alabama

DuBose ousts Drake in Alabama House District 45 | #elections | #alabama

The city of Hoover finally will have a Hoover resident in the state Legislature, with Greystone’s Susan DuBose capturing a win over incumbent state Rep. Dickie Drake, R-Leeds, in Tuesday’s Republican primary for Alabama House District 45. Complete, official results were not yet available early Wednesday morning, but numbers on the Alabama Secretary of state’s […]

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