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| Government -- This week is spring break for school children and college students throughout Alabama. The state's lawmakers are taking a break, too. After dealing with the legality of electronic bingo, funding for road projects, and charter schools, legislators return to Montgomery next week for the second half of the 2010 session. More ...
| Birmingham -- Our weekly segment features The Birmingham News columnist John Archibald, discussing the city politic (and county and state politic too). Instead of being unplugged as he is in the newspaper, we offer him a bullhorn. Sort of. More ...
| Brimingham -- Many churches teach that the body is a temple for the spirit. As a result, faith-based fitness programs have exploded over the last two decades. No one tracks religious fitness centers, but the magazine Faith and Fitness estimates that Southern Baptist churches alone operate more than 20,000 fitness centers nationwide. But this holy union of faith and fitness is raising some questions, as WBHM's Tanya Ott reports. More ...
| Birmingham -- The Birmingham marketplace is connected by people who have to grapple with numbers and projections and spin. We try and slice through the psychobabble that can be business news with our occasional segment featuring the editor of the Birmingham Business Journal. More ...
| Education -- Alabama is one of only ten states that don't allow charter schools. Many states, including Texas, adopted charter schools in the 90s. Today, more than 113-thousand Texas children attend charter schools. More ...
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VERDI: I due Foscari
Verdi's operas are so popular that few of his great dramas could truly be described as unjustly neglected, but this one may fit the bill. One of Verdi's darkest scores, I due Foscari is also one of his most striking: a compelling story of deadly intrigue and political treachery set against the historical backdrop of 15th-century Venice.
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