County Commission Chairman: ‘We Don’t Have This Pandemic Under Control’
Huntsville Hospital CEO David Spillers reported a spike in Madison County and the region.
Entries by Mike Easterling
Health, Civic Officials Plea: Wear Face Coverings, Use Hand Sanitizers, Practice Social Distancing.
Wear face coverings, use hand sanitizers and practice social distancing. It’s neither a broken record nor a cliche, just the repeated pleas from health and civic officials urging Madison County residents to practice these safety measures to battle the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. That checklist continues to be the theme at the bi-weekly pandemic press […]
Local COVID-19 Cases Increase; City, County on ‘Watch List’
Huntsville and Madison County enjoyed weeks as the poster child in the state for how to battle the novel coronavirus COVID-19. While other counties seemed to struggle in dealing with the virus, Madison County maintained low numbers of confirmed cases. That’s no longer true. At Friday’s COVID-19 press briefing in the Huntsville City Council chambers, […]
Crestwood CEO: Masks Help Protect Wearer Against COVID-19; ‘The Life You Save May be Your Own’
Madison County has had an increase of 222 positive cases in the past 14 days with a majority in the 24-49 age group
Downtown Huntsville Inc. Joins Effort to Move Confederate Monument from Courthouse Grounds
Downtown Huntsville Inc. has thrown its collective weight behind efforts to remove of a Confederate memorial statue that was placed on the Courthouse Square downtown by the Daughters of the Confederacy in 1905. The letter from the organization said DHI advocated “the removal and relocation of the Confederate Memorial from the Downtown Huntsville Courthouse Square […]
Trash Pandas Hosting Movies, Block Parties, Camps in Lieu of Baseball This Summer
MADISON — Just a couple months ago, Josh Caray planned on calling play-by-play baseball in the first season of the Double-A Rocket City Trash Pandas. Instead, he’s helping the club Band-Aid what so far has been a lost baseball season across the nation in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. “You look forward to a […]
Rime of COVID-19: Virus Hanging Like an Albatross Around Our Necks
Spike in cases said likely in two weeks when any protestors contract the virus.
Independent Radio Voices Facing Budget Struggles to inform Listeners
If Wes Neighbors is reading the tea leaves correctly, independently owned local radio stations might have a bright future if the coronavirus doesn’t cause much more financial headache. Neighbors, a financial consultant by trade, owns 97.7 The Zone that carries sports talk and live events such as Auburn football, UAH basketball, and high school games. […]
Despite Increased Teleworking, Huntsville-area Internet Integrity ‘Among the Best’
West Coast researcher BroadbandNow published a study of the top 200 U.S. cities based on population regarding Internet performance and the numbers say Huntsville is “among the best.’’ That’s according to study author Tyler Cooper, the editor-in-chief at Los Angeles-based BroadbandNow. “Really, Huntsville’s among the best in terms of the network integrity (recently),’’ Cooper said. […]
Madison Mayor Finley: Events to Fill Baseball Void at Toyota Field – When Allowed
COVID-19 update: 285 confirmed cases in Madison County
