codyg1985’s Think Tank

According to this Daily Mountain Eagle article, the Jasper City Council has pledged $1 million in incentives to attract an undisclosed company to build a manufacturing plant in northwest Alabama. The plant could employ at least 1000 people. The site being considered is not very far outside Walker County. The following quote […]

Well, folks, hell has officially frozen over.  BAE systems has announced their intentions to take over the old Warrior River Steel plant in Cordova, AL in order to build missile destroyers for the Navy.  The site was chosen for it’s easy access to the Black Warrior River, through which the weapons will be shipped to […]

Today an attorney was abducted from downtown Birmingham, AL. A white, female attorney abducted by a black man. What a juicy story for the media to gobble up. And the local media did just that, providing updates as they occurred. At about 5:30 PM the attorney and the suspect were […]

This Daily Mountain Eagle story hits the nail on the head about what Walker County and surrouding counties need to do to take advantage of future I-22 when it is completed. Some people realize that we need more than a bunch of service and retail jobs in Walker County, and I am happy that […]

I know I am guilty of this. When a busy road has a center turn lane, I tend to pull out into the center turn lane and accelerate with traffic instead of trying to pull directly into traffic.
This is technically against the law, but police in Huntsville encourage people to do it anyway. […]

Yes, it is a given that Winchester Road is one of the most dangerous in Madison County, Alabama. Many would like to see it widened from its current two and three lanes between Moores Mill Road and Buckhorn High School, but would it really help? Sure it may reduce the number of accidents […]

The paving work on a section of future I-22 between the Walker/Jefferson County Line and west of US 78 is near completion. Guardrails on the main lanes of the freeway are up also, which was part of the paving contract.
However, it will be a while before this opens to traffic. Two additional segments […]

After over a year of delays, the city of Jasper has finally finalized the $2 million contract to extend sewer service to the Alabama Highway 269 and Industrial Parkway interchanges of future I-22. Construction is set to begin this month.
Funding is being sought for sewer extensions for the other two Jasper interchanges at Alabama […]

As I am typing this the last few minutes of 2005 are ticking away. The new year is a time of hope, and I wish for everyone to have a great and wonderful new year. Here are some of my wishes for the new year:

Let’s lower the number of troops in Iraq. […]

How low can you go in the name of profits…we were just doing an assignment about whether “big box” retailers are good or bad for communities. Well, here is a good example of how they are bad:
Salvation Army not welcome at Target
Salvation Army volunteers soon will be ringing in the holiday season as they […]