Last week’s verdict established Larry Langford’s guilt, but it will be a long time before we’re done settling all his unanswered questions. 

The cost of corruption when politicians come cheap

When you watch Langford, one question arises: But for his character flaws, would he have ever been successful?

Council President Carole Smitherman wins (for now). Richard Arrington loses big.

The Birmingham Finance Department had claimed a $13 million surplus. It was off by only $41 million.

Just a few years ago this scenario was all too common. A man walks into [...]

Birmingham needs a new generation of political action, but the ‘New’ Coalition stopped short of radical change.

City continues to spend millions from savings.

After they’d taped all the returns to the City Hall walls Tuesday night, not much [...]

There are costs and benefits to smoking beyond what it does to your health. A [...]

As I write this, the Alabama Legislature is busying trying to fix what’s wrong with [...]

Last Thursday Al LaPierre stood in the eighth floor courtroom at the federal courthouse downtown to utter [...]

What he didn’t put into slot machines, he spent on clothes and cars. And when he spent all he had, he took more money from friends — friends who happened to be connected to the bond business.

How a decade of blunders back-stabs left Jefferson County broke

There’s a question in my mind: Can corruption, incompetence and ego kill a government?
Sure, these [...]

 
According to the city’s own accounting system, Birmingham is running a $17 million deficit for [...]

“Everybody they put on the stand knew what he was doing,” defense attorney Jim Parkman [...]

There’s a problem affecting our political culture here, and recent events have given us a [...]

In the waning days of the Bush Administration, rumors ran rampant that the White House [...]

Q: Is he a friend of yours, Mr. Milton McGregor?
A: Oh, I know him. Yes, [...]