Do It With Truitt

11/27/2025

Join us this Saturday (11/29/25) when our friend, newly elected City of Homewood Mayor Jennifer Andress, joins us on TRUITT NEWS RADIO. This is going to be fun. Can't wait to hear what all is happening.
✅ Show starts at 7AM on Bham's Talk 99.5
✅ Download the TRUITT NEWS RADIO podcast if you miss us live.
✅ Thanks to our fantastic show sponsors: the Poarch Band of Creek Indians, Financial Advisor Stuart Johnson, J.D., CPFA®, Alabama Community College System Innovation Center (Skills for Success), Alabama AGC, Stadium Trace Village, and Truitt Insurance & Bonding

11/26/2025

If you have a second, check out what everyone is building around the Southland.

Heading into Thanksgiving, we’re celebrating WHO is building WHAT, WHERE across the Southeast in today’s TRUITT NEWS CONSTRUCTION REPORT: 👷 Nashville’s T.W. Frierson Contractor, Inc. is working on their 45,000 sq ft Cooper Christian Academy project. 👷 Biltmore Construction Co., Inc. has ...

11/26/2025

There are Tuesdays without Tony, but they are not as much fun.
Check out this week's tidbits, congrats and celebrations!

Hello Tuesday. It’s time for this week’s quick-hitters: ✅ If you need something to do this Thanksgiving, go check out the Poarch Creek Indians 53rd Annual POW WOW event in Atmore Thursday & Friday. Looks amazing. Food, crafts, traditional dance, princesses, Turkey Trot 5K, and more. Very cool....

11/26/2025

We wish everyone a fantastic Thanksgiving.
Have fun & stay safe.
Let's come back and close out 2025 strong!

11/22/2025

Check out this week's ALABAMA Construction Report highlighting who is building what around the state.
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Back with another week of the Original TRUITT NEWS CONSTRUCTION REPORT. Check out WHO is building WHAT, WHERE: 👷 Robins & Morton has broken ground on the new $81m emergency department and bed tower expansion for Southeast Health in Dothan, AL. 👷 BL Harbert International LLC has topped out the ...

11/21/2025

Let's talk about all the great things folks are accomplishing out there.
Here is this week's shout-outs:

🤩 HIGH-FIVE: Alabama country music artists! Our state killed it at the CMA Country Music Association Awards this week. Riley Green (Jacksonville, AL), Ella Langley (Hope Hull, AL) and the Red Clay Strays (Mobile/Baldwin County) all on hand. AND...TRUITT NEWS RADIO alum & upcoming star, Myles Morgan Music, was there for his first time at the CMA's. He's having a fantastic year and it will not be long before he is part of the show, too.

🤩 HIGH-FIVE: Streamline Development Partners for breaking ground on their new project as they are bringing a new Dollar General to Calera. Everybody loves DG!

🤩 HIGH-FIVE: Premier Living Suites owner/ Birmingham Bulls Hockey co-owner, Kurt Dinga, on rolling a 300 Wednesday night in league play at Vestavia Bowl. That's pretty solid.

🤩 HIGH-FIVE: Jacksonville State University on having a record crowd of 24,166 at AmFirst Stadium last weekend in a win over Kennesaw State. That's awesome!

🤩 HIGH-FIVE: Good People Brewing Company on getting their products on shelves & flowing out of taps in the great state of Georgia!

‼️ Make sure to listen in to TRUITT NEWS RADIO every week on Bham's Talk 99.5. We start at 7AM every Saturday. This week we have WHNT News 19's Ellie Byrd TV and the Poarch Band of Creek Indians' Chris "Ding Ding" Blackburn on with us.

‼️ Check out DoItWithTruitt.Com for more great info & reports.

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11/21/2025

Here was my first-ever DO IT WITH TRUITT HIGH 5 FRIDAY REPORT.
There is a ton of great stuff happening out there, we are celebrating it.

I’m starting something new today.Folks are out there doing great stuff. A lot of it goes unnoticed.I’m going to start celebrating those wins every Friday!I really like this idea.All that said, let’s get to this week’s shout-outs! 🤩 HIGH-FIVE: Chattanooga-area native, Auburn University gue...

11/21/2025

We are excited to have Ellie Byrd from Huntsville's WHNT News 19 join us on TRUITT NEWS RADIO this weekend. She's great and Huntsville has a ton going on so this is going to be fun.
✅Show starts at 7AM on Birmingham's Talk 99.5.
✅Grab the TRUITT NEWS RADIO podcast if you miss us live.
✅Thanks to our fantastic show sponsors: Alabama AGC, the Poarch Band of Creek Indians, Alabama Community College System Innovation Center (Skills for Success), Financial Advisor Stuart Johnson, Stadium Trace Village in Hoover, and Truitt Insurance & Bonding.

Very excited to welcome WHNT’s Ellie Byrd to TRUITT NEWS RADIO this weekend to hear about her career and give some great info on everything going on in Huntsville. 🎙️📺✨ She’s from Auburn, went to Alabama, has worked in Nashville & Knoxville and is now back home in Alabama. 🦅🐘🎓...

11/19/2025

Check out this week's info if you have a second today. Thanks.

Welcome back to Tuesday. Here are the tidbits: ✅ CONGRATS: to our friend, Ben DeGweck, on being named CEO & Chancellor at South University. 🎙️ Thanks to John Russo (Chief Underwriting Officer – Small Business) with The Hartford for joining us on TRUITT NEWS RADIO this past weekend. 🎙️ ...

11/15/2025

Excited to have Marissa Luna back with us tomorrow. Listen in to Truitt News Radio starting at 7am in Bham's Talk 99.5.

Marissa Luna is back with us on TRUITT NEWS RADIO again and we can’t wait for an update. 🎙️🙌 Birmingham native, former Miss University of Alabama and current Miss Nashville, Marissa is making waves in the Music City. 🌆👑🎶 I love it. ❤️ Show starts at 7AM Saturday morning on Bha...

11/11/2025

Tuesday = Tidbits. Let's go:
✅ Congrats to First Horizon Bank's newly established Huntsville Advisory Board: Bill Roark (Torch Technologies, Inc.); Bruce Summerville (Inline Electric Supply Co.); Dr. John Waples (Clearview Cancer Institute); and Frank J. Williams (Landers McLarty Dodge Chrysler Jeep Ram).
🎙️ Thanks to John Armstrong (John Armstrong, Clothier; Village Sportswear) and Lauren Schwartz (Collat Jewish Family Servicesly Services) for being our guests this past weekend on TRUITT NEWS RADIO! Check it out at truittnewsradio.com
👀 HIRING: The Orion Amphitheater in Huntsville is searching for a Community & Cultural Events Coordinator. Awesome job here!
📈 The Dow Jones Industrial Average went over 1,000 for the first time today in 1972.
🎙️ Looking forward to talking with Marissa Luna (aspiring country singer, current Miss Nashville) and John Russo, The Hartford's Small Business Chief Underwriting Officer this week on TRUITT NEWS RADIO. Show starts at 7am on Bham's Talk 99.5.
🎵 Sun Records released Great Balls of Fire by "The Killer", Jerry Lee Lewis, today in 1957. It sold over 1,000,000 copies in 10 days.
‼️ We are excited to welcome our newest sponsor to TRUITT NEWS RADIO this month: the Alabama Community College System Innovation Center (Skills for Success).
📅 NOV 18: Birmingham CREW luncheon at The Club.
❓ DID-YOU-KNOW: Sesame Street is celebrating 56 years and it is getting a new launch on Netflix?
⚽ CONGRATS: to Berry College on winning the Southern Athletic Conference (SAA) Men's Soccer Championship. Our buddy, Scott Register's son Mitchell, and some other former Birmingham-Southern College players are on that team. Great story for those guys.
⚽ CONGRATS: to Coach Todd Yelton and the Samford University Women's Soccer Team on successfully defending their The Southern Conference (SoCon) Championship, picking up a big win over Mercer University.
🏀 Love to see that University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and Samford University have signed on for a 3-game series starting next basketball season. This is going to be fantastic for Bham hoops.
✅ Washington joined us as state #42 today in 1889.
☑️ Check out DoItWithTruitt.com for more reports & info.
🎵 One of my favorites, KISS, released their Rock And Roll Over album today in 1976. That tour for that album was my first concert.
🏈 Duke University and Coach Steve Spurrier defeated North Carolina State University today in 1989 despite NC State QB Shane Montgomery throwing an NCAA record (at that time) 73 passes in the game.
👀HIRING: Pihakis Restaurant Group is having a hiring event, November 13th, for their concepts opening in the Valley Post development that will be opening shortly.
❓ DID-YOU-KNOW: Ocean water has a lower freezing point than fresh water?
☑️ My team at Truitt Insurance & Bonding wants to be your home & auto insurance agent. (205)254-3005. Let's do it.
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11/07/2025

Here is this week's effort.

It’s time for this week’s tidbits. Here it goes: 👀 CONGRATS: to our long-time friend Jennifer Andress on being sworn in as the new Mayor of the City of Homewood, AL. 🎙️ Loved hearing from Sarah Dylla with the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta & McKay Lyvers with Alabama 811 this past S...