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10/31/2025

10/31/2025

We looking forward to talking with Alabama 811's McKay Lyvers tomorrow on Truitt News Radio.
✅Show starts at 7AM Saturday mornings on Bham's Talk 99.5.
✅Grab the TRUITT NEWS RADIO podcast if you sleep in.
✅Thanks to our fantastic show sponsors: the Poarch Band of Creek Indians, Stadium Trace Village, Alabama AGC, Financial Advisor Stuart Johnson, Alabama Community College System Innovation Center (Skills for Success) and Truitt Insurance & Bonding.

10/31/2025

Great time up in Huntsville at the Subcontractors Association of Alabama (SubAla) Meet the GC event earlier this week.

10/30/2025

See what is happening over in Georgia with my latest TRUITT NEWS CONSTRUCTION REPORT.

Check out WHO is building WHAT, WHERE with my new TRUITT NEWS CONSTRUCTION REPORT – GEORGIA: 👷 Winter Construction has topped out their Student Success Center project at Clark Atlanta University. 👷 Albion General Contractors, Inc. recently celebrated the ribbon-cutting on their North Georgia...

10/28/2025

Let's get going with the Tuesday tidbits:
✅ The Birmingham Zoo has a cool, new jaguar named Diego.
🎙️ We appreciate E.J. Brophy (VP & Director or Athletics, The University of Tampa) and Elaina Burt (The Miss Jefferson County Organization 2026) being our guests on TRUITT NEWS RADIO show this past Saturday. Check it out at truittnewsradio.com or download the podcast version.
✅ CONGRATS: to anyone who made it all the way through the Los Angeles Dodgers big 18-inning win over the Blue Jays in the World Series last night. Wow!
❓ DID-YOU-KNOW: Apache Indian leader Geronimo's birth name was Goyahkla (The One Who Yawns)?
🏃‍♀️‍➡️ CONGRATS: to the Mississippi College Women's Cross Country team on winning the 2025 Gulf South Conference Championship! The GSC is headquartered in Birmingham!
🎙️ We are looking forward to having McKay Ivers (Alabama 811) and Jill Nash Malool (Atlanta's Center for Puppetry Arts) on TRUITT NEWS RADIO this weekend (11/1/25). Show starts at 7am on Bham's Talk 99.5 or grab the podcast version.
🏀 OCT 28, 1973: Elmore Smith set the NBA record for blocked shots in a game, rejecting 17 for his Los Angeles Lakers in their win over Portland.
📺 NOV 12: New "Being Eddie" documentary about Eddie Murphy's career debuts on Netflix.
⁉️ How 'bout Floriana Restaurant DC, based in Washington, DC, announcing Huntsville's MidCity District will be home for their 3rd location. Fantastic news!
👷 HIRING: Shelby Company General Contractors is looking to add a Financial Controller.
‼️ The entire programmatic advertising market is projected to hit $2.75 trillion by 2030.
🎵 CONGRATS to the Mobile's Red Clay Strays on being nominated for Vocal Group of the Year at the 2025 CMA Awards.
👀Abbeville, AL-based Great Southern Wood YellaWood's big new facility in Tyler, TX is nearing completion.
🍸 The Volstead Act was passed by Congress today in 1919, establishing the Prohibition of alcohol in the U.S. I think organized crime may still be celebrating!
📅NOV 8: The Lower Wetumpka Shotgun Sports Club is starting back with their Neon Nights. Go do some night-shooting! Check out LWSSC.com for more info.
🏈 The Buffalo Bills were awarded a franchise in the American Football League today in 1959.
✅CONGRATS: Andrewnetta Adams on being named Homecoming Queen at The University of West Alabama.
❓ DID-YOU-KNOW: Alabama's original capital building in Montgomery was destroyed in a fire in 1849? We have had our current capital building since it was completed in 1851.
☑️ Check out DoItWithTruitt.Com for more great info & reports.
✅ CONGRATS: Bham's Kennedy Whisenant, Miss Alabama USA, on making the Top 10 in the Miss USA competition this weekend in Reno.
🎵 "KISS Meets The Phantom Of The Park" premiered on NBC today in 1978. I was watching.
☑️ We want to be your agent at Truitt Insurance & Bonding. (205)254-3005. Business Coverage. Surety Bonds. Home & Auto. Let's do it!
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10/24/2025

Here is my Alabama Construction Report for this week. Give it a look if you have a second.

Here we go with this week’s TRUITT NEWS CONSTRUCTION REPORT. Find out WHO is building WHAT, WHERE across Alabama (and a little beyond): 👷 Lee Builders, Inc. has started work on a new 29,800, 2-story, $16.7m Student Union Building at Calhoun Community College in Decatur. 👷 APAC-Alabama, Inc. ...

10/24/2025

Can't wait to welcome back to TRUITT NEWS RADIO one of our favorites - Elaina Burt - currently Miss Jefferson County. She is really fantastic and has a great fundraiser, Wings of Hope benefitting the Epilepsy Foundation Alabama, coming up November 1st at the Southern Museum of Flight. Tune to in to hear all she has going on.
✅Show starts at 7AM Saturday morning on Bham's Talk 99.5.
✅If you sleep in, grab the TRUITT NEWS RADIO podcast.
✅Check out DoItWithTruitt.Com.
Thanks to our show sponsors, too: Alabama AGC, Hoover's Stadium Trace Village, Alabama Community College System Innovation Center, Financial Advisor Stuart Johnson, the Poarch Band of Creek Indians and Truitt Insurance & Bonding.

🎙️ We are excited to have one of our favorites back with us this Saturday on TRUITT NEWS RADIO! 👑 Elaina Burt, Miss Jefferson County 2026, is joining us to talk about her really great event — Wings Of Hope 🕊️ benefitting the Epilepsy Foundation Alabama 💜, happening November 1st at ...

10/24/2025

The University of Tampa got a good one when they hired E.J. Brophy away from Samford University recently to run their athletic department. Excited to hear what he has planned up for the Spartans when he joins us on TRUITT NEWS RADIO this weekend.
✅Show starts at 7AM Saturday on Birmingham's Talk 99.5.
✅If you sleep in, grab the podcast version of TRUITT NEWS RADIO.
✅We really appreciate our great show sponsors: the Poarch Creek Indians, Alabama Community College System Innovation Center, Financial Advisor Stuart Johnson, Hoover's Stadium Trace Village, Alabama AGC and Truitt Insurance & Bonding.

🎙️ Really excited to have E.J. Brophy with us this Saturday on the show! 🏈 E.J. recently was named the VP & Athletic Director at UT after some great years with Birmingham’s Samford Bulldogs! Now he is a Spartan. 💪 ❤️ I love UT. Great school right on the river in gorgeous downtown Ta...

10/23/2025

Running behind on getting this posted, but check out what is getting built down in Florida and who is doing the work.
✅It's good stuff.
✅It's the TRUITT NEWS CONSTRUCTION REPORT: FLORIDA.
✅Make sure to check out DoItWithTruitt.Com to see all the reports and other great info we have up.


https://doitwithtruitt.com/florida-construction-report-10-15-25/

Let’s check out WHO is building WHAT, WHERE in the Sunshine State! Here is the latest TRUITT NEWS CONSTRUCTION REPORT: FLORIDA. 👷 Hoar Construction is working on the new, 4-story, 77,200 sq ft Watson Clinic Medical Building that is on Orlando Health’s Lakeland Highlands Hospital Campus. The a...

10/21/2025

Kick off your Tuesday with some tidbits. Let's go:
🎙️ Thanks to Mike Walton (co-founder, (BOO Halloween Party) and Jeremiah Stone (Executive Director, Epilepsy Foundation Alabama) for being our guests on TRUITT NEWS RADIO this past Saturday (10/18/25).
🎙️This week on TRUITT NEWS RADIO, we're looking forward to having new The University of Tampa (formerly of Samford University VP & Athletic Director EJ Brophy and Miss Jefferson County Elaina Burt join us. Show starts at 7AM on Birmingham's Talk 99.5
✅ Chick-fil-A is working on a stand-alone beverage concept (coffees, juices ?) called Daybright. Not much other info out there on what, or where, this is going to be.
🏀 If you are a basketball fan this is interesting. Both Adrian Dantley & Moses Malone made their pro-debuts today in 1974 with the Buffalo Braves.
👀 CONGRATS: Bham's Capital Growth Buchalter on the ribbon-cutting of their first development project with Wawa up in Westfield, IN. Bring them to The Magic City!
❓ DID-YOU-KNOW: The Oklahoma State Capital has active oil wells on its grounds? There the only one in the U.S. to have that.
👀 CONGRATS: Jeremy Friedman and the team at Stoic Equity Partners on picking up another great property, the 57,029 sq ft Red Oak Business Park in Stockbridge, GA. They're building a great portfolio.
📅 OCT 22: The Hoover Small Business Alliance is having their next event at Vecchia Pizzeria & Mercato. Starts at 8am. Ashley Mac's founder Ashley McMakin will be speaking.
🎵Riley Green is playing Auburn University's Neville Arena on Nov 28 for a special Iron Bowl Eve show!
📅 OCT 23 & 24: Comedian John Crist is at the Alabama Theatre in downtown Bham.
🏈The University of West Alabama is out to a 5-1 start under their new coach, former Nick Saban assistant, Scott Cochran.
📅 OCT 29: Subcontractors Association of Alabama (SubAla) is having their "Meet the GC" event in Huntsville. More info at subala.org.
👀 CONGRATS: to our friend, Steve Ammons (CEO, Birmingham Business Alliance) on being included in the Birmingham Business Journal Top CEO issue.
☑️ Make sure to check out DoItWithTruitt.Com for more great reports & info.
👀 Scott Taylor, CFE has Party Fowl on a tear, with new openings on the way by Vanderbilt University and another in the East Nashville Five Points area. Another is planned in Ruston, LA by Louisiana Tech University. Rumor is they are looking at Bham, too! I hope so.
☑️ We want to be your agent at Truitt Insurance & Bonding - Business Coverage - Surety Bonds - Home & Auto. Call me. (205)254-3005.
👀 CONGRATS: Auburn University at Montgomery Chancellor Dr. Carl Stockton on being named President of the Gulf South Conference Board of Directors.
👀 CONGRATS: Bham's Crawford Square Real Estate Advisors on picking up the management assignment for Weston Commons in Weston, FL.
🛑 Thanks for the read.

10/17/2025

The Fish Market in Hoover is one of my favorites.

We made it out for a 3-generation family dinner the other night at 🍽️ The Fish Market in Hoover. It’s still really good! 😋🐟 If you haven’t been in a while, swing by — we think you’ll be happy you did. 👏

10/17/2025

Check out another week of WHO is building WHAT, WHERE!

Another week of TRUITT NEWS CONSTRUCTION REPORT is here! Let’s take a look at WHO is building WHAT, WHERE: 👷 COVER PIC: MJ Harris Construction Services, LLC has recently topped out what is going to be the great-looking, 150,000 sq ft, Smith Family Center for the Performing Arts at The Universit...