With the housing situation the way it is and homeowners throwing in all kinds of perks to entice buyers this almost fits in — almost. The Blumberg Family Relocation fund is offering Jewish families up to $50,000 to come live in Dothan, Alabama — a mostly Christian town that calls itself the Peanut Capital of the World.
While the numbers of Jews living in the South has risen overall, they're concentrated mostly in the bigger cities.
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New reports are claiming that by January 2010, state employees in Alabama will be charged $25 per month for insurance (that's normally free to state workers) if they have a body mass index (BMI) of 35 or greater or if they are not making any process in slimming down — though how the progress will be measured is still being determined. This comes after insurance companies are finding that obese folks incur more medical costs over the course of a year than those who are not overweight.
Granted, Alabama is second only to Mississippi for having the most obese population in the country, but how do you feel about it?
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Giving up buttered grits for health care? As Alabama ballooned to take the #2 spot (right behind #1 ranked Mississippi) in the national obesity rankings, the state is cracking down on free health care payouts for state workers who are overweight. It's issued a get-slim-or-pay-up ultimatum for the nearly 40,000 workers on the state's insurance plan.
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Trash Talk? British Recycling Leaflets Show Wrong Birmingham Britain's second-largest city, Birmingham, has a new skyline — only it belongs to its Alabama namesake. Birmingham City Council distributed 720,000 leaflets that praised residents for exceeding recycling targets, carrying a message that read: "Thank You Birmingham."
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80 years ago Alabama passed a law that gave sheriffs $1.75 a day to cover the cost of prisoner grub. If they didn't spend that much, they got to keep the leftover dough. Most Alabama counties still operate under this system, with the same per diem — and some sheriffs are actually making money on top of their salaries.
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Alabama is right next door to the fattest state of the nation Mississippi, and not far behind it statistically in terms of residents on the heavier side of a healthy weight.
Alabama healthy officials have created Scale Back Alabama, an eight-week program beginning in January designed to help people lose weight and learn how to eat smarter. Here's how it works:
Hospitals are taking the campaign into their communities to sign up businesses and other organizations. 
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