The City of Birmingham, Alabama, is a municipal corporation under the laws of the State of Alabama. Birmingham is the largest city in the state with a population currently estimated at 242,820, and a metro population of 1,079,089.
Birmingham Stats:
Ranks 13th among the largest southeastern metropolitan areas,
Represents 24 percent of Alabama's total population,
Represents 31 percent of Alabama's total payroll dollars,
Ranks 48th in population among the nation's top 300 metropolitan areas,
Home to 40,680 Businesses.
Area: 5,332 square miles--MSA (Metropolitan Statistical Area) - Bibb, Blount, Chilton, Jefferson, Shelby, St. Clair and Walker Counties.
Birmingham: 151 Square Miles
The Birmingham area has shed jobs every month for more than two years, and the area's employment level has contracted at a more rapid pace than Mobile's and Huntsville's during the worst economic downturn in decades, an analysis shows.
Live Design Group architects Whitney Simon, Craig Krawczyk and Aubrey Garrison use this 52-inch computer screen to involve their clients in the live design process.
Alabama Supreme Court Justice Glenn Murdock, who has written at least two key opinions concerning the state's gambling controversy, did legal work for a co-owner of the Greenetrack dog track and casino prior to his election to the court, according to billing records obtained by the Press-Register. Murdock did not disclose his ties to Greenetrack to ...
S tuart Berger, clearly, is not from around here. So Stuart Berger just came right out last week and asked the question locals rarely bother to pose any more.
Kendal Brown of Northport to compete on 'America's Next Top Model' Virginia College student selected as part of online contest Kendal Brown of Northport is one of 14 contestants competing this fall for the title of "America's Next Top Model." Does Alabama have the look? We'll see on Wednesday, as the 15th season of "America's Next Top Model" ...
The Guinness Book of World Records awarded the Alabama Butterbean Festival in Pinson Alabama the largest pot of beans record Saturday September 4, 2010.
Carrie Gray, left, joins Lauren Mosley of HEALS in the clinic's "shoe room." Carrie holds a new pair while Lauren shoes off a worn pair of shoes recently traded in for a new pair.
Alabama's Jason Isbell will headline the Paste music tour in October. Editors at two national magazines, Paste and The Oxford American , must have Alabama music on the brain.
Q. My cell phone battery died. How should I dispose of it? A. The increasingly prevalent rechargeable batteries that power cell phones and other electronics aren't supposed to go in the waste basket; they need to be recycled, according to Call2Recycle, a free battery collection program sponsored by manufacturers.
Gov. Bob Riley and Attorney General Troy King: Alabama's governor has hired a prominent Birmingham law firm to represent the state in oil spill litigation, but King charges that the firm, Balch & Bingham, cannot ethically work for RileyaA A s office because it previously had worked on civil litigation that the attorney general is pursuing against ...
