November 2022 | Volume 11 | Issue 2
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Seventeen candidates are seeking federal and state legislative seats that represent parts of Hoover in the Nov. 8 general election.
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Under the Lights
Hoover council at odds over changes in video recordings Highlights from the middle portion of the high school football season.
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By JON ANDERSON
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or more than five years, the Hoover City Council has been recording and broadcasting its meetings on a city YouTube channel, and those meetings were available for anyone to go back and review at any time. That’s no longer the case. At some point this year, videos of previous
Hoover public meetings were removed from public access on YouTube. The city also stopped broadcasting and video recording the public comment section of council meetings at the end of the meeting. Therefore, the general public no longer is able to see and hear those public comments on the YouTube broadcast. Those two decisions have drawn criticism from some council members and members of
the public. A majority of council members said they were surprised to learn that older meetings had been removed from public view and that general public comments were no longer being recorded. No elected official is taking responsibility for the initial decision.
See TRANSPARENCY | page A22
A screenshot of the Oct. 3 Hoover council meeting. Illustration by Ted Perry. Mary-Coker Green, 2023 Miss Hoover, stands in front of the lake at Aldridge Gardens. Photo by Erin Nelson.
Flipping the switch Miss Hoover 2023 wants to remove stigma of mental illness By JON ANDERSON When Mary-Coker Green was growing up, some people labeled her as the “happy girl” because she always tended to respond to a lot of things in life with joy. She didn’t like feeling sad, so she tended to suppress those kinds of emotions, she said. When a tragedy came into her
life during her senior year of high school, she faced some new realities that were hard to swallow and she had to relearn how to do life, she said. And now, the new Miss Hoover 2023, at age 19, is working to help others cope with trauma and stress.
See SWITCH | page A20