• Alabama State Representative Mary Moore announced that she was not running for mayor of Birmingham, despite calls for her to enter the race and signs appearing on the city’s West side. According to a report from The Birmingham News , she’ll be thanking folks for considering her on Tuesday morning.
• Meanwhile, Birmingham City Councilor Steven Hoyt decided to throw his name into the mix, wanting to run on a platform of expanding economic development efforts throughout the city.
• The Birmingham Business Alliance has announced plans to hold their own mayoral forum, the third one to be announced so far; it’s scheduled to take place on November 30 at the Alabama School of Fine Arts beginning at 6 p.m. and focus on economic development issues.

Yes, you read that correctly. A better way to say it is that I’m in Memphis, TN today to be part of a community blogging panel discussion with Elizabeth Lemmonds of Memphis Connect and Morgan Levy and Christy Frink of Nashvillest at this year’s BarCamp Memphis.

If you’re interested in seeing what’s going on at the conference today and you’re on Twitter, look for the hashtag #bcmem. There’s also a Posterous site set up and I’m assuming that the session will be live streaming starting at 1 p.m. CT – it’s supposed to be on the Room 106 feed.

Photo: Trolleys in Memphis. acnatta/Flickr

The real question becomes “Will people pay attention and take these events seriously?”

I figured one way to do it would be by seeing what folks would think about parts of my platform if I were to throw my hat in the ring… there’s still time, right?

Douglas’ campaign website appears to be a placeholder currently, while his campaign’s fan page on Facebook is reporting that his announcement will take place at 10 a.m. at Kelly Ingram Park.

Looks like Bhamwiki will get to add a few more names to their list…

Liz Harris, left, and Nancy Wagnon, right, both with Wagnon and Associates fight the wind and rain Tuesday to bring in part of their display to the Birmingham Business Journal Business Growth Expo at the BJCC Tuesday morning. Birmingham was getting hit with the wind and rain brought here by the remnants of Hurricane Ida.

Wednesday’s forecast by comparison will be 64° and mostly sunny.

Photo: Bob Farley/f8Photo

UPDATE: We’ve just received a press release confirming that Bell will announce his candidacy Thursday morning at 10 a.m. in Linn Park, the same time that Scott Douglas will be announcing his in Kelly Ingram Park.

While we’ve heard rumors about a possible run for mayor by former Birmingham City Councilor and current Jefferson County Commissioner William Bell, this sign is the first one that we’ve seen up around town (in the city’s Norwood neighborhood across the street from Cosmo’s). Well that and his website’s already up though still under construction after telling The Birmingham News that he was considering a run last week.

There are already several folks who’ve thrown their hat in the ring.

Additional signs announcing his campaign were seen along Greensprings Avenue this evening.

Photo: André Natta/bhamterminal.com

But wait, there’s more…

You’ve also got the wire accounts from Reuters and the Associated Press.

There were a couple of pieces written that used Langford’s trial as its muse earlier in the day yesterday, including this column for the Kansas City Star and this piece chronicling the issues facing Baltimore’s sitting mayor for that city’s CBS affiliate.

And while we tried to collect some posts from out of town, Spitball Army’s got some other links, including one back to this site. Thanks!

Photo: Bob Farley/f8Photo