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House committee shines light on Mark Meadows' role in Jan. 6 planning,...
Mark Meadows, former Trump chief of staffHow close did organizers for the Jan. 6 Stop the Steal rally get to the Trump Oval Office? A report late last week from Salon suggests the answer is "pretty...
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Former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens, bounced from office once by scandal,...
Eric GreitensMissouri's Eric Greitens, who went from Navy SEAL to one of the nation's most corrupt governors, appears already to have stepped in doo-doo in his bid to make a political comeback by...
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Rosanne Cash suggests via Twitter that Ali Alexander might face legal...
Ali Alexander, the Alabama-connected extremist who organized the Stop the Steal rally that turned into a riot at the U.S. Capitol, was served with lawsuit papers after an eight-hour deposition last...
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Did Balch & Bingham sell imprisoned partner Joel Gilbert down the river, with...
Did Birmingham's Balch & Bingham law firm sell out one of its own, former partner Joel Gilbert, in the North Birmingham Superfund case? Is that one reason a number of veteran attorneys have bolted...
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Ali Alexander, in new court filing designed to keep his Verizon phone records...
Ali Alexander (front, left) on Jan. 6 In conversations with members of the House January 6 Committee, Alabama-connected extremist Ali Alexander is pointing fingers at three GOP U.S. Congressmen,...
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Another longtime partner bolts Balch & Bingham as reports swirl about a...
Jennifer Powell Decker Another partner has bolted Birmingham's Balch & Bingham law firm as reports mount that the firm may be the target of a federal investigation. According to a post at...
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The U.S. Army might be known for its warriors, but its scientists show they...
The past two years probably have been the most distressing period many modern-day Americans have experienced. To top off the barrage of bad news, we recently learned that our country had passed the...
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Capture of Kremlin insider Vladislav Klyushin on insider-trading charges...
Vladislav Klyushin (Moscow Times)We already know Donald Trump was an incompetent president of historic proportions, one who remains an existential threat to American democracy. Could we soon learn he...
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Ali Alexander, an extremist with Alabama connections, proves to be a useful...
Ali Alexander Today marks the one-year anniversary of an assault by pro-Trump forces on the U.S. Capitol. Many questions linger about what happened on Jan. 6, 2021, but perhaps the overriding question...
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Police in suburban St. Louis, MO, beat black motorist for allegedly failing...
Tranell Stewart We reported earlier this week that traffic stops, once seen as routine encounters with police, are turning increasingly dangerous, even deadly -- especially for motorists of color. A...
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Ali Alexander, an extremist with Alabama connections, proves to be a useful...
Ali Alexander Today marks the one-year anniversary of an assault by pro-Trump forces on the U.S. Capitol. Many questions linger about what happened on Jan. 6, 2021, but perhaps the overriding question...
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Pope Francis offers insights on human interaction, but follows it up with...
Pope FrancisAs the calendar turned from one year into another, Pope Francis and the Catholic Church went into a good news-bad news cycle that has left ill feelings around the world -- and that's too...
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Report shows Alabama-based Matrix LLC is in the midst of Florida turmoil that...
Matrix LLC, a Montgomery, AL-based political communications and consulting firm, was in the midst of a plan to turn a Jacksonville, FL, public utility into a private concern -- in a deal that would...
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What's that smell? Alabama Power pays "dirty tricks" firm Matrix LLC, of...
Alabama Power paid $2.5 million to Montgomery-based Matrix LLC for services that are not described in invoices, according to a post at banbalch.com (BB). Matrix is known in political circles as a...
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Joe Perkins demands removal of Alabama Power contracts from Web site, forcing...
Donald Watkins If anyone had doubts about reporting at donaldwatkins.com regarding peculiar contracts between Alabama Power and the Matrix LLC "dirty tricks" firm of Montgomery, they might want to...
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Environmental watchdog group picks up on the story of Alabama Power's...
A prominent watchdog organization, known for exposing attacks on renewable energy and countering misinformation from fossil-fuel and utilities interests, has picked up on the story of Alabama Power's...
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Balch & Bingham's dubious history on matters of race -- including staunch...
From banbalch.com The racially dubious history of Birmingham's Balch & Bingham -- which includes support for George Wallace's "stand in the schoolhouse door" to keep black students out of the...
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An easy call turned into a torturous process, but the Alabama Supreme Court...
Alabama Supreme CourtA former Drummond Company executive's lawsuit against Balch & Bingham has new life after the Alabama Supreme Court reversed itself on Friday and found a Jefferson County...
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Ali Alexander communicated with members of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers...
Ali Alexander Alabama-connected extremist Ali Alexander has been caught on video saying he would work with the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers militant groups leading up to Jan. 6, according to a report at...
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Balch & Bingham's tortured history on matters of race surfaces again as...
Birmingham's Balch & Bingham can't seem to escape its dubious history on matters of race. The embattled law firm, which supported George Wallace's efforts to keep black students out of the...
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