After more than 30 years in politics, Collins is bowing out before voters can put her head in a basket

After more revelations of shady bond dealings, commissioners say a lawsuit may be in the future.

Blount and Langford hid deals from Bettye Fine Collins, were afraid she’d leak to media.

Potential witnesses include Alabama Power CEO Charles McCrary, Commission Pres. Bettye Fine Collins.

Jefferson County Circuit Judge Scott Vowell has approved a plan by Sheriff Mike Hale to [...]

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

FY 2010 would bring back all employees, but full-time status up in air.

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

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

Three commissioners want to bring county’s employees back, but two commissioners and the county attorneys say the move could be illegal. Read the story here.

Three commissioners want to bring employees back, but can they pay them?

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

Throughout the state, shoppers will have a three-day sales tax holiday later this summer, but [...]

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

Bobby Humphryes has volunteered to take a 20% cut in his County Commissioner salary as an act of solidarity with the county’s hourly workers, who have had their workweek cut back from 40 hours to 32. However, Jefferson County Attorney Jeff Sewell has advised Humphryes that any voluntary pay cut may, by law, have to be permanent, lasting even into following terms.

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

The Jefferson County Commission voted again Tuesday to withdraw from the Storm Water Management Authority, [...]

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

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