Viewpoint Alabama

Viewpoint Alabama

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Viewpoint Alabama episodes

  • Compulsive Gambling and Voiceless behind bars.
    In light of the possibility of the legalization of gambling in Alabama, we talk with Jack Galassini the director of the Alabama Council on Compulsive Gambling. Then we talk with Sarah DeArmond from Voiceless Behind Bars talks about her efforts to provide lawyers and pay legal fees for the wrongfully convicted in Alabama.
    30 min
  • Getting Real About Mental Illness
    Adina Peyton’s son was shot and killed by a SWAT team in Huntsville at a time when he was suffering from a mental health Crisis. Now Adina is on a mission to get mental health training for law enforcement officers through her nonprofit Getting Real About Mental Illness (GRAMI).
    30 min
  • Teaching our kids an important lesson
    Local Hoover Middle school Teacher Logan Greene talks about why he received the coveted Robert I. Goldman Award for Excellence in Holocaust Education. He explained the importance of his lessons and the methods he uses to reach the kids in his 8th grade classroom at Berry Middle School.
    30 min
  • School Choice in Alabama
    January is National School Choice Month and we are joined by Shelby Doyle the Vice President of the National School Choice awareness foundation. She makes a case for why parents should be able to move their child to the public, private or homeschool of their choice.
    30 min
  • Dry January with Dr. George F. Koob and a check with our Senators
    George F. Koob, Ph.D., Director of NIAAA at the National Institutes of Health, is an internationally recognized expert on alcohol and the neurobiology of alcohol and drug addiction joins us to talk about Dry January.

    Then JT then talks with both Senators Tommy Tuberville and Katie Britt about the 2024 elections and the roll Alabama will play in the shaping of the race and the American political landscape.
    11 min
  • A look back and suicide prevention
    Former State Rep Paul Demarco joins us to look back at 2023 and then we check in with Marissa Grayson to talk about the Out of the Darkness Birmingham Walk Benefiting the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
    30 min

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