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A loose coalition of right-wing media types, including Roy Moore's son,...
John Merrill and Cesaire McPherson As an avowed progressive, I generally hold little regard for right-wing media. But after reading "Sex, lies and the Alabama secretary of state: The fall of John...
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Karen Garner, a 73-year-old woman with dementia, suffers broken arm and other...
Evidence is overwhelming that Black Americans absorb the majority of damage rogue law-enforcement officers inflict on our society. But a case is unfolding in Colorado that seems to break the mold. In...
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Derek Chauvin's muder trial reveals the truth about George Floyd's death,...
Derek Chauvin A guilty verdict for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the murder of George Floyd could be a sign of hope that America will get its raging police-brutality problem under...
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Birmingham police officer calls Joe Biden and Democrats "enemies of the...
Birmingham Police An Alabama police officer has been placed on administrative duty after posting online that President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party are "enemies of the United States" and might...
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It's tempting to view Liz Cheney as a saint for calling out Donald Trump's...
Liz Cheney As an avowed progressive, I've become enamored lately with U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) for her willingness to call out Donald Trump for his "Big Lie" that Joe Biden did not really win the...
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Alabama Supreme Court denies Drummond's request to be treated like a law...
Alabama Supreme Court The Alabama Supreme Court has denied Drummond Company's request for a writ of mandamus, apparently setting up a trial in the $75-million lawsuit of former executive David...
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With corruption flowing like sewage in downtown Birmingham, it's time for a...
Jay Town and Mark Crosswhite Has Birmingham become the epicenter of corruption in Alabama, much as Phenix City was in the 1950s? Is it time for a thorough cleansing in "The Magic City"? Should that...
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The George Floyd case proves cops can be unreliable sources, so journalists...
Anyone who has worked in a newsroom, even for a little while, probably has written a sentence that goes something like this: "Joe M. Smith, of 1320 North Columbus St., was arrested last night while...
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Trump administration seized phone and email records of CNN reporter Barbara...
Barbara Starr, of CNN Attacks on a free press are not quite as common as police beatings in postmodern America -- at least not yet. But the score seems to be getting tighter. The latest example came...
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Series of podcasts from Vice Media shine unflattering light on Drummond's...
Vice Media has produced a series of podcasts, focusing on unsavory episodes from Drummond Company's past and present. The podcasts, called "The Crisis," come as Drummond already is operating on shaky...
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Kristen Clarke becomes the "new sheriff of civil rights" at the Justice...
Kristen Clarke The U.S. Senate this week confirmed Kristen Clarke as the first African-American woman to serve as assistant attorney general for civil rights. Could that be the impetus for renewed...
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Appellate court upholds convictions in North Birmingham scandal, but opinon...
A three-judge panel of the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the criminal convictions of former Drummond Company executive David Roberson and former Balch & Bingham attorney Joel...
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Ronald Greene's death in Louisiana, via apparent cop torture, suggests...
Cops brutalizing Ronald Greene The Minneapolis murder trial in the death of George Floyd shined a spotlight on the propensity of American cops to lie, especially when they feel the need to cover up...
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Tales of intrigue from Tommy Gallion: An intrepid attorney, with deep...
Shadow Government, Southern Style: A Saga of Political Corruption From D.C. to Dixie (2020), by Thomas T. Gallion III; available from Amazon and Kindle eBooksWe recently compared the current...
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Family files wrongful-death lawsuit in deputy's fatal shooting last summer of...
Hannah Fizer The father of Hannah Fizer has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the sheriff's deputy who fatally shot the 25-year-old Fizer last summer during a traffic stop in Sedalia, Missouri. A...
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As new revelations surface about North Birmingham scandal, Biden...
The Biden Administration is on "high alert" as new information surfaces about the North Birmingham Superfund bribery scandal, according to a report at banbalch.com. Recent revelations could spell...
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Body-camera footage surfaces, which top-ranking officer on scene denied...
Image from body cam of Ronald Greene incident The top cop on the scene for the deadly arrest of Ronald Greene in Louisiana denied the existence of his own body-camera footage for roughly two years,...
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Was former Drummond exec David Roberson's guilty verdict driven largely by...
David Roberson Was former Drummond Company executive David Roberson found guilty in the North Birmingham Superfund bribery case because he was tried jointly with a lawyer from Balch & Bingham --...
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Kansas City settles police-brutality lawsuit for $725,000, where victim...
Kansas City officers make an arrest What might have happened to George Floyd if he had survived his encounter with police brutality in Minneapolis -- if he had lived through officer Derek Chauvin...
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Claims of ignorance from Sessions and Barr about leak investigation of House...
Bill Barr and Jeff Sessions, under oath Trump attorneys general Jeff Sessions and Bill Barr are lying when they claim to know nothing about secret warrants to spy on reporters and Democratic members...
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