Welcome to West Alabama Weekly, episode 9.

Digital reporter intern J. Calister Clemons and social media interns Sydney Reinke and Hannah Classon bring you our ninth episode of the podcast. They talk about a handful of local stories happening around West Alabama, including a story on local crime, porch pirates, holiday events and more. They also talk in-depth about the University of Alabama student-run magazines (1956 and Alice) that were permanently suspended by UA.

J. Calister Clemons has his second edition of his series, Senate Seat Spotlight, where he will be highlighting individual profiles of every Senate candidate for the upcoming 2026 U.S. Senate race, where Alabamians will decide who will join Katie Britt as Alabama’s new junior Senator. Today, he highlights candidate Morgan Murphy.

You can view all stories and much more on ⁠⁠⁠⁠our website⁠⁠⁠⁠.

As a friendly reminder, we will be off for the University of Alabama holiday break, but we will be back in the new year. Roll tide and happy holidays!

J. Calister Clemons sits down for an exclusive interview with our very first guest here at West Alabama Weekly, Daniel DiDonato, a University of Alabama freshman who singlehandedly drew two new State Senate districts as part of a redistricting effort to address historical racial gerrymandering.

His plan was chosen over two other professionally-drawn district maps, and he did it entirely by himself, in his free time, pro bono and also, somehow, for fun.

Enjoy this sit down interview talking all things maps and Alabama politics.

Welcome to West Alabama Weekly, episode 8.

Digital reporter intern J. Calister Clemons and social media interns Sydney Reinke and Hannah Classon bring you our eighth episode of the podcast. They talk about a handful of local stories happening around West Alabama, including an update on the University Beach project, crime in Oakman, holiday events and more.

J. Calister Clemons also premieres his new series, Senate Seat Spotlight, where he will be highlighting individual profiles of every Senate candidate for the upcoming 2026 U.S. Senate race, where Alabamians will decide who will join Katie Britt as Alabama’s new junior Senator. Today, he highlights candidate Dakarai Larriett.

You can view all stories and much more on ⁠⁠⁠our website⁠⁠⁠.

As a friendly reminder, we will be off for Thanksgiving next week, but we will be back on December 5th. Roll tide!