November 2025 | Volume 16 | Issue 6
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Charting the future Interim City Manager Glen Adams brings structure, strategy, collaborative spirit to guide city’s next chapter By SOLOMON CRENSHAW JR.
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len Adams said the experience of being interim city manager in Homewood has been better than he expected. “It’s a lot better,” he said. “I found that our directors are phenomenal. They understood how to team very quickly, and they take it to a level that you would have expected of a city that’s been under city management for decades. That’s how well they’re working together.”
See GLEN ADAMS | page 26 Homewood Interim City Manager Glen Adams has been busy helping craft the proposed 2025-26 budget, align priorities with a new administration and prepare for the city’s first attempt at a comprehensive strategic plan for priorities and growth in two decades. Photo by Solomon Crenshaw Jr.
What we stand for: Homewood residents share what patriotism means to them By KELLI S. HEWETT
With Veterans Day celebrated this month, patriotic symbols will be evident in the city. But how do we live patriotically in daily life here at home? Local residents say true patriotism is about actions and in how we treat our neighbors. Photo by David Leong.
In Homewood, November means flags on porches, the Homewood Pops band playing patriotic tunes, students preparing for assemblies and neighbors lining the streets for Birmingham’s Veterans Day parade — the oldest in the country. But this year, as the United States approaches its 250th anniversary in 2026, we wanted to ask a personal question: What does patriotism mean to you — and how do you live it, here in Homewood?
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We invited veterans, artists, civic leaders and neighbors from across Homewood to share their reflections. Not about politics. Not about headlines. But about daily life — what they believe, how they act and how we might all find common ground through love of country, even when we disagree. Their answers weren’t political. They weren’t rehearsed. They came from daily life — they just asked us to listen.
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