Clik here to view.
Longtime Alabama lawyer Donald Watkins says Memphis officers "tortured" Tyre...
Memphis police officers fatally beat Tyre Nichols A longtime Alabama attorney -- who helped desegregate the Montgomery Police Department and served on all sides of court cases involving police officers...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Use of deadly excessive force is not the only problem with policing in...
Chris Blevins As we foresaw in a post last Friday, the horrific beating death of Tyre Nichols in Memphis has brought police brutality crashing back to a front-row position in our collective...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Donald Watkins' filing of a RICO complaint might have changed the script as...
Donald Watkins' filing of a criminal RICO complaint, which we spotlighted in a post on Sunday (1/29/23), likely accomplishes two key objectives as the longtime attorney and entrepreneur seeks justice...
View ArticleClik here to view.
New York Times review shows the official police report of Tyre Nichols'...
Tyre Nichols' funeral (The New York Times) Tyre Nichols was laid to rest yesterday in Memphis, leaving us with the hope, however faint, that something positive might come from his beating death, which...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Eleven executives are shown the exits at Alabama Power and other Southern...
Donald Watkins (right), with Richard and Leslie Scrushy Eleven executives at Southern Company have been terminated as the parent firm of Alabama Power seeks to clean up a racketeering mess largely...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Alabama Power's desire to control Black-owned media, has created a...
Randall Woodfin Alabama Power's desire to control the Black-owned media in Birmingham might be getting Mayor Randall Woodfin into hot water, according to a report at banbalch.com.How could that happen?...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Donald Watkins files complaint with Nuclear Regulatory Commission, claiming...
Plant Vogtle A longtime Alabama attorney and businessman is challenging Southern Company's fitness to own and operate a nuclear power plant in Georgia. Donald V. Watkins and his son, Donald V. Watkins...
View ArticleClik here to view.
About 90 million U.S. adults have viewed the Tyre Nichols beating video, but...
Joseph Pettaway (Atlanta Black Star)Today marks one month since the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols at the hands of Memphis police officers. In that time, almost 90 million adult Americans have viewed at...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The SCORPION officers accused in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols asaulted...
Members of the SCORPION police unit in Memphis Five Memphis police officers charged in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols allegedly assaulted another man three days earlier, according to a federal...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Disaster in Puerto Rico brings windfall -- and federal probe -- for Southern...
The aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto RicoIn 2017, Southern Company took advantage of a natural disaster -- a deadly and costly hurricane that hit Puerto Rico, according to a report yesterday at...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Civil-rights leader Ernesto Pichardo says Southern Company is unfit to...
Vogtle Nuclear Plant near Waynesboro, GA Southern Company is not fit to operate a nuclear power plant in Georgia and should be replaced by a third-party operator, according to a statement from the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The downing of mysterious objects from North American air space raises...
A ship scans the sea in recovery of Chinese balloon (Getty)Many Americans probably are looking to the skies with quizzical eyes after four mysterious flying objects were shot down from North American...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Michigan State gunman, struggling with mental-health problems after death of...
Mourners gather at Michigan State (Washington Post)I sat down yesterday to write this post, which I thought would be about America's most recent bout of mass gun violence -- the shooting on Monday...
View ArticleClik here to view.
As Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin wrestles with the fallout from...
Randall WoodfinBirmingham mayor Randall Woodfin, mired in a boondoggle involving the "magical disappearance" of $1.8 million in legal-advertising funds has turned to his "friends" at Alabama Power for...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Lax oversight, plus failure of Southern Company and Alabama Power to disclose...
Joe Perkins and Mark CrosswhiteSouthern Company has failed to disclose, via Form 8-K filings with the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC), that the firm and certain executives are subjects of a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Wall Street analyst for U.S. utilities poses serious questions on earnings...
A Southern Company earnings call on Thursday (2/16/23) proved to be mostly an exercise in feinting and dodging, according to reports at banbalch.com and donaldwatkins.com. K.B. Forbes, at Ban Balch,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Judges head for the exits and "cops have gone wild" as scandal reveals the...
Judge Louise Goldston talks with litigant Matt Gibson in his front yard. (wvrecord.com) A West Virginia judge has retired in the face of possible impeachment after being caught leading a warrantless...
View ArticleClik here to view.
As scandal engulfs Matrix LLC and Joe Perkins, Donald Watkins looks for...
Richard ShelbyHow did Alabama's judiciary become such a cesspool, as we have reported in dozens of posts? (See here, here, here, here, and here.) That is a particularly timely question now as the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
As scandal continues to boil around Southern Company and related entities, a...
Kristine Svinicki (Getty Images)Kristine L. Svinicki, former head of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), joined the Southern Company board of directors in October 2021. In making that move,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Civil-rights leader Ernesto Pichardo encourages Kristine Svinicki to resign...
Kristine SvinickiA civil-rights leader is calling on the former head of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to resign from Southern Company's board of directors due to the firm's alleged...
View Article