‘The city of perpetual promise.’ Does that mean incessant failure? Or rather, that Birmingham never gives up hope?

Jefferson County has declared war on JPMorgan.

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.