Down in Alabama with Ike Morgan

Time Magazine ranked the top 100 privately owned companies, not just by size and profit but also by how good an employer and neighbor they are.

Alabama landed four on the list.

We also have how Alabama and Auburn fared in the AP preseason football poll, and we have the death of a man who was in the newspaper business for half a century.

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Psychedelic help for veterans with depression? It's being studied, and the "magic mushroom" drug is what researchers are looking at.

Also, we have an unsurprising weather update and a town in the running to host a Hallmark Christmas movie.

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Alabama put a convicted child killer to death yesterday, and there wasn't much debate about this one, even from the condemned man himself.

We'll also update you on one of the troubled school systems the state took over a couple years ago. And we might as well do something on gas prices to put you in a really good weekend mood.

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Why is John Rich jumping into an Alabama debate? We'll let you know. We'll also talk about the broadening of an indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center and the passing a physician who probably met some of y'all when you were too young to know which end was up.

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A former major leaguer's daughter pitched an Alabama team into the Little League World Series.

In just a minute we'll talk about which Alabama team's going this year, which Alabama Little Leagues have ever sent a team to Williamsport, and which one actually won it all.

We'll also go over yesterday's election unofficial results, then talk deer hunting and an invasive species and how those two things are overlapping in parts of the country.

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We'll finish previewing today's (Aug. 11, 2026) special primary election, tell you why Fox Weather is coming to Gulf Shores, then have updates on a former batting champion's retirement and a youth baseball team that's close to reaching the Little League World Series.

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Is it a new day for Alabama Democrats? Well, it's a day with a new state party chair, at least. We'll tell you who that is on today's episode.

We also have another city throwing up a stop sign for data centers, how Alabama's U.S. senators voted on Attorney General Todd Blanche, and a special primary election on Tuesday.

But, really, aren't all our elections special in their own way?

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How many law-enforcement agencies in Alabama are partnering with ICE, what are they getting out of it, and why did at least one quickly pull out of the deal?

We'll also talk about Tommy Tuberville's limits on data centers and his call for a utility-rate freeze extension.

The Space and Missile Defense Symposium is returning to Huntsville.

And I had low-level economics stuff on my brain to share with anyone who thinks inflation has or is going to reverse itself. I mean, maybe $20 college-cafeteria burritos could fall.

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To support the energy needs of a big ol' data center there are big ol' solar farms, and a contract has been approved to build another one to support the coming Meta facility in Montgomery.

We also have a poll on the governor's race and a legal update on Dog the Bounty Hunter's son.

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Alabama's virtual-school students are not where you'd hope they would be, particularly in math. We'll talk about what some virtual schools face and what some plan to do about it.

We also have news out of this past weekend's state GOP Executive Committee summer session and some local TV station shakeup.

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