Pedestrians, cyclists and other recreational users will get another crack at the Bankhead Tunnel this Saturday, according to the Alabama Department of Transportation, which continues to fine-tune the formula for such events.

ALDOT announced early Wednesday via Twitter that it plans another recreational closing for 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 13. Referencing a rainy forecast, the tweet cautioned that "we will continue to monitor weather & inform you of any changes."

Such closings have been conducted on a trial basis in recent weeks, and have grown from an initial small turnout in the 150-person range. On July 30, ALDOT said 1,089 people had taken part, topped by a count of about 1,200 on Aug. 6.

The proposed rate hikes will affect more than 160,000 people in Alabama who purchase insurance through the federal exchange, or about 5 percent of Blue Cross membership.

Rate increases range from 26 to 41 percent, depending on the type of plan. Proposed increases are lowest for bronze plans, which offer the least amount of coverage, and greatest for the most popular silver plans.

The hefty rate hikes for Blue Cross customers will come on the heels of another increase in 2016 that averaged 28 percent for individual plans. The company lost more than $250 million on marketplace plans from 2014 to 2016, according to Blue Cross executives.

The high costs of individual marketplace customers in Alabama also factored into the departures of UnitedHealth and Humana, according to statements by those companies.

PPP asked Trump supporters in North Carolina about four recent Trump statements:

- 69% of Trump voters think that if Hillary Clinton wins the election, it will be because it was rigged, to only 16% who think it would be because she got more vote than Trump. More specifically 40% of Trump voters think that ACORN (which hasn’t existed in years) will steal the election for Clinton. That shows the long staying power of GOP conspiracy theories.

- 48% of Trump voters think that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton deserve the blame for Humayun Khan’s death to 16% who absolve them and 36% who aren’t sure one way or the other (Obama was in the Illinois Legislature when it happened.) Showing the extent to which Trump supporters buy into everything he says, 40% say his comments about the Khans last week were appropriate to only 22% who will grant that they were inappropriate. And 39% of Trump voters say they view the Khan family negatively, to just 11% who have a positive opinion of them.

- Even though Trump ended up admitting it didn’t exist 47% of his voters say they saw the video of Iran collecting 400 million dollars from the United States to only 46% who say they didn’t see the video. Showing the extent to which the ideas Trump floats and the coverage they get can overshadow the facts, even 25% of Clinton voters claim to have seen the nonexistent video.

- Trump said last week that Hillary Clinton is the devil, and 41% of Trump voters say they think she is indeed the devil to 42% who disagree with that sentiment and 17% who aren’t sure one way or the other.

No matter how you feel about the 2016 election—whether you’re #WithHer or hoping to Make America Great Again—you can’t do much to calm your nerves unless you’re registered to vote.

The election in November might be the most important election of your lifetime, and voter registration drives by both parties—plus some third-party efforts, like those of Planned Parenthood—have been signing up millions of new voters to take part in the historic showdown between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

But voting isn’t as simple as showing up on Election Day. Each state handles voter registration differently, and some states’ processes are simpler than others. To make it easier for you, we’ve put together this state-by-state breakdown of how to register to vote. (Since each state also has its own restrictions on who can and can’t vote, you will need to find out if you meet the legal requirements to vote in your state before signing up.)

Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, trailed Clinton by 30 points among white women with a college degree in a Monmouth University poll released Monday. Trump had only 27% of the vote among that segment of the electorate, while Clinton, the Democratic nominee, had 57%.

While that might not look surprising on its face, Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee in 2012, won that voter group by 6 points.

Monmouth broke down the numbers:

"The main factor behind the current GOP nominee's underperformance among white voters is his lack of support among white women with a college degree. Trump holds sizable leads among white men without a college degree (31 points; 56% to 25%), white men with a college degree (11 points; 45% to 34%), and white women without a college degree (17 points; 49% to 32%).

The future had humble beginnings. The first public web page went online 25 years ago today, on August 6, 1991. It was not much of a page by today’s standards: all text and a summary overview of a project to make Internet resources linkable with hypertext. But that single little web page, written by Tim Berners-Lee, heralded the rise of one of the greatest public goods ever built: the worldwide web.

We the people have the web and its myriad of services and its almost infinite amount of data at our fingertips. It is non-rival: My usage cannot prevent someone else from using it. It is non-excludable: Nobody can set up a toll or a barrier to prevent me from using it. It is global. It distributes knowledge and information freely.

These two central characteristics, non-rivalry and non-excludability, make it one of the most potent forces on the side of humanity’s progress. The accumulation and exchange of knowledge, culture in all its forms, is our key evolutionary advantage as a species. Culture is what allows us not only to invent but also to augment and to improve on past inventions.

Culture is our killer app. Make the entirety of human culture, past and present, free and available to anyone through computer networks, and watch what happens. It has been 25 years since the first web page went live: we’ve only just begun.

Sometime during the past few years, the country started talking differently about white Americans of modest means. Early in the Obama era, the ennobling language of campaign pundits prevailed. There was much discussion of “white working-class voters,” with whom the Democrats, and especially Barack Obama, were having such trouble connecting. Never mind that this overbroad category of Americans—the exit pollsters’ definition was anyone without a four-year college degree, or more than a third of the electorate—obliterated major differences in geography, ethnicity, and culture. The label served to conjure a vast swath of salt-of-the-earth citizens living and working in the wide-open spaces between the coasts—Sarah Palin’s “real America”—who were dubious of the effete, hifalutin types increasingly dominating the party that had once purported to represent the common man. The “white working class” connoted virtue and integrity. A party losing touch with it was a party unmoored.

That flattering glow has faded away. Today, less privileged white Americans are considered to be in crisis, and the language of sociologists and pathologists predominates. Charles Murray’s Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010 was published in 2012, and Robert D. Putnam’s Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis came out last year. From opposite ends of the ideological spectrum, they made the case that social breakdown among low-income whites was starting to mimic trends that had begun decades earlier among African Americans: Rates of out-of-wedlock births and male joblessness were rising sharply. Then came the stories about a surge in opiate addiction among white Americans, alongside shocking reports of rising mortality rates (including by suicide) among middle-aged whites. And then, of course, came the 2016 presidential campaign. The question was suddenly no longer why Democrats struggled to appeal to regular Americans. It was why so many regular Americans were drawn to a man like Donald Trump.

The Deep South, which has been a bedrock of Republican support for 20 years in presidential elections, may well be considering a change from GOP red to Democratic blue.

A poll released Friday indicates that Hillary Clinton has a four-point lead on Donald Trump in Georgia.

Meanwhile, according to Real Clear Politics – which tracks polls nationwide, Mississippi is considered as "leaning" toward Trump and not a solid Trump state like Alabama is listed by the website.

Still, that means three of Alabama neighbors are apparently less than solidly behind Trump. Tennessee, like Alabama, is still considered a solid Trump state, according to Real Clear Politics.

The only Alabama neighboring state to vote Democratic in the presidential election this century was Florida in 2012. Before that, you have to go back to 1996 when Florida and Tennessee backed Bill Clinton's re-election campaign.