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Analysis of U.S. presidents rekindles memories of my old newspaper pal, Paul...
Paul Finebaum One of the distinctions of my journalism career is that I used to work with a fellow sportswriter at the Birmingham Post-Herald (now defunct) who went on to become famous. In fact, you...
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CDLU advocacy group seeks investigation of Southern Company board member...
Kristine Svitnicki An oversight body for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has formally been asked to investigate former NRC Chairperson Kristine L. Svitnicki in her current role as a member...
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Southern Company board member Kristine Svinicki is a Jeff Sessions ally who...
Yucca Mountain nuclear waste facility in NevadaPublished reports tend to portray Southern Company board member Kristine Svinicki as an accomplished nuclear engineer and policy advisor, serving on the...
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Southern Company could have chosen any number of qualified law firms to...
King & Spalding King & Spalding, the Atlanta law firm hired to conduct an investigation of alleged corruption at Southern Company, likely has a conflict of interest because of its past...
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As costs started soaring at Kemper coal-gasification plant in Mississippi,...
The Kemper Plant near De Kalb, Mississippi Part OneMost of the reporting on the scandal engulfing Southern Company has focused on mismanagement, cost overruns and other issues at the Vogtle Nuclear...
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Southern Company's boondoggle at the Kemper Plant in Mississippi, prompts the...
Kemper Plant (Mississippi Power) Part TwoA social-change coalition -- devoted to racial and economic justice, and ending the climate crisis -- has joined the fight against alleged corruption tied to...
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As Dilbert and his creator, Scott Adams, swirl down the drain, Americans...
Dilbert and Scott Adams (NPR)As a longtime fan of Dilbert, I'm distressed to see the comic strip disappearing at a rapid rate from American newspapers. That comes after creator Scott Adams went on an...
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New evidence shows Balch & Bingham lawyers lied in open court about not...
We have learned in recent days that Southern Company officials tend to become deceptive when faced with thorny issues that could affect the firm's stock price. (See here and here.) What about Balch...
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Southern Company settles investor lawsuit for $87.5 million, but remains...
Southern Company has agreed to settle an investor lawsuit for $87.5 million, according to news reports. The complaint, styled Monroe County Employees' Retirement System v. The Southern Company in the...
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Deloitte & Touche auditors apparently were asleep at the wheel as costs...
(Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis) "Ample evidence" exists to charge the company and executives with willfully providing the public erroneous and incomplete information in...
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Donald Watkins examines auditing failures in Birmingham schemes as names of...
Robert Bentley and Rebekah Caldwell Mason The HealthSouth accounting-fraud trial of 2003 and the ongoing Southern Company/Matrix LLC scandal (with roots in the North Birmingham Bribery case) have a...
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Did Deloitte fail to catch Alabama Power's funding of affairs involving...
Robert Bentley and Rebekah Caldwell Mason In September 2021, longtime Alabama attorney Donald Watkins uncovered documents that included hand-written notes of Matrix LLC founder Joe Perkins on his plan...
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"Sex, Lies, and Photographs," plus Donald Watkins' discovery of Joe...
Joe Perkins' notes Joe Perkins, founder and owner of the Montgomery-based Matrix LLC "dirty tricks" consulting firm, wouldn't lie to the public, would he? Longtime Alabama attorney Donald Watkins has...
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Donald Watkins plans to alert the CEOs of Vanguard and BlackRock index funds...
BlackRock and Vanguard are the top two managers of index funds in American finance. The third most powerful player in index funds is Boston-based State Street. Index funds have revolutionized the...
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Ex-Balch & Bingham attorney Chase T. Espy, who also worked for Gov. Kay Ivey...
Chase Tristian Espy A former Balch & Bingham attorney, who also worked for Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey and represented Southern Company, has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison on...
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Southern Company's appearance before Nuclear Regulatory Commission is...
Southern Company's Plant Vogtle in Georgia (AP)Georgia Power, a subsidiary of Southern Company (as is Alabama Power) announced this week that a nuclear reaction has started inside Unit 3 at the Vogtle...
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Watkins: Rapid collapse of Silicon Valley Bank was largely caused by lax...
Silicon Valley Bank The 18th largest bank in the United States, California's Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) failed Saturday, sparking the largest run on a bank in U.S. history and raising concerns that more...
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Watkins: Deaths of Alabama Power exec Matthew Bowden and Balch lawyer "Bo"...
Steve McKinney email to Matthew BowdenThe investigative efforts of longtime Alabama attorney Donald Watkins have produced a cache of documents on the evolving Southern Company accounting-fraud scandal....
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Donald Watkins' investigative reporting shines light on the back-alley...
Jay Town and Mark Crosswhite at cocktail hourAnyone who doubts Alabama Power CEO Mark Crosswhite knew bribes would be used to help deal with a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) clean-up...
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Growing tensions at Alabama Power appear to revolve around Joe Perkins and...
Joe PerkinsTensions reportedly are rising at Alabama Power headquarters in downtown Birmingham, and much of the high anxiety seems to revolve around Joe Perkins, founder and owner of the...
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