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

Here’s something for Bettye Fine Collins’ enemies to chew on. The News’ Barnett Wright got [...]

Jefferson County Commission President Bettye Fine Collins responds to SCLC’s resignation demand by quoting Napoleon [...]

Bishop Calvin Woods demanded the resignation of Commission President Bettye Fine Collins and asked Gov. [...]

Jefferson County is the poster child of municipal deadbeats, so how can they ask a [...]

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 [...]

Jefferson County is bleeding cash and without drastic cuts could be broke by August 7, [...]

Jefferson County has a sewer debt that’s all but unpayable, an occupational tax that has [...]

Jefferson County has identified more than $50 million in budget cuts, but those reductions could [...]

Jefferson County Commission President Bettye Fine Collins has asked county department heads to prepare cuts [...]

State authorities last week seized more than $300 million worth of assets from four banks, [...]

If only we had elected officials here with the same kind of gumption Italian politicians [...]

Employees of Bruno’s supermarkets are ready to go on strike if the supermarket chain is [...]

The Governmental Affairs committee of the Alabama Senate has okayed a bill that would require [...]

Everyone is clear about what they don’t want
 
It’s not a great mystery why our political [...]

On Tuesday the Jefferson County Commission will consider a resolution that would take the county a step closer to raising rates and creating new fees that would raise revenue for the debt-ridden sewer system.

Carns won’t budge, nor should he
It’s kind of a shame that Jim Carns serves on [...]

Is this Birmingham’s last act? 
 
It was the best of times. It was the worst of [...]