North Huntsville Advocate

01/10/2026

Read this success story by Urban Regional Extension Agent Hayes Jackson to find out more about the community garden that's reducing food insecurity and receiving special recognition in Calhoun County.

https://www.aces.edu/blog/topics/about-us/hobson-city-community-garden-growing-fresh-growing-hope/

01/10/2026

01/10/2026

Are we paying attention????

In the 60 years since the Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965, Alabama lawmakers have adopted district maps that reduce Black voting strength, effectively stealing political power from Black voters.

“Discriminatory district maps that deny Black voters a fair opportunity to elect candidates of choice prevent Black communities from having a say in the policies affecting their lives,” said Jack Genberg, senior supervising attorney with the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Democracy: Voting Rights litigation team.

Read more in the latest story in our series about conservative efforts in the Deep South to redraw voting districts in a way that disenfranchises Black and Brown voters: https://bit.ly/4qemRrp

01/10/2026

Protests against ICE planned across the U.S. after shootings in Minneapolis and Portland, Oregon | https://tinyurl.com/2utyxt79

01/10/2026

Reports of several local stations throughout the U.S. closing. This is so sad. A whole nation has to lose free press and clean intellectual TV programming. The dumbing down of masses has begun.

Leaders of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private agency that has steered federal funding to PBS, NPR and hundreds of public television and radio stations across the country, voted to dissolve the organization that was created in 1967. https://cnn.it/49HVRLa

01/10/2026

The Trump administration is slashing $10 billion in funding for social programs for families with children in five Democratic-led states.

Trump officials have claimed the move is due to alleged fraud concerns amid the recent scandal in Minnesota involving fraud at child care facilities. But Democratic lawmakers have condemned this as an act of political retribution.

The five targeted states are California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York. Among the impacted programs are the Child Care and Development Fund, which subsidizes daycare for low-income households, and assistance for parents living in poverty to receive cash aid for diapers and other needs and to attend job training.

The group Fair Share America said in a statement, "Rather than an isolated decision, this is part of a clear and dangerous pattern."

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