Good morning, class! If you would find your seats and settle in, I would greatly appreciate it. We have a lot of material to cover today and time is growing short. Let's pick up where we left off last

For 30 years, William Bell has coveted the mayor's office. He has been an upstart city councilor, then a council president, then interim mayor, then councilor again, then a county commissioner. But un

Birmingham isn't at a crossroads anymore. The city is several miles down the wrong path, a long way from where it wants to be, with its bearings misdirected by a succession of errant turns. There

Kings, queens and other heads of state shouldn't keep hatchets lying around. It's bad juju when voters are looking for someone on whom to take out their frustrations. But in the corner of Jefferso

On a Tuesday afternoon in late July, storm clouds threatened to soak the onlookers near the BJCC as a couple hundred curious folks gathered to watch the most absurd political pageant of the last two y

I admit it. I miss Larry Langford. I said this out loud to the other regulars at the Garage Café, and they began elbowing each other, pointing, laughing. Finally one of them said it. "I told you

Let me be as clear and to the point as I can. With a few exceptions, no one at Birmingham City Hall understands the significance of the financial straits the city is in, nor is the leadership there co

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City financial records and analyses generated by current and former Finance Department officials indicate that the city of Birmingham is headed for a fiscal-year 2010 deficit possibly in excess of $60

Don’t believe for a second that this saga ends with the conviction of Larry Langford. This story is just beginning. And if you think the $235,000 worth of jewelry, clothes and cash Langford received i