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Welcome back. Today we feature reaction and possible effects from a couple of Trump Administration announcements. Also, we have the answers to Friday’s quiz and another story behind a local place name.The National Institutes of Health, amid the Trump Administration’s federal cost-cutting binge, this past Friday night announced a major change to biomedical research grants that
In Alabama, those on the receiving ends of NIH funding include companies such as HudsonAlpha and numerous universities. Birmingham Business Alliance President Steve Ammons didn’t speak to exactly how this will play out, but did say that a reduction in funding to UAB would be a hit.
He trained in Tuskegee and served with the all-Black 332nd Fighter Group in World War II. Stewart won the Distinguished Flying Cross for taking down three German aircraft during a dogfight in 1945.
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