Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Shane Aumic dies in tiny Ava, Missouri, after officer kneels on his back, a move similar to that of Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis

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Shane Aumic, in a family photo   Former Minnesota police officer Derek Chauvin is being tried for murder this week in the racially charged ...
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Tuesday, March 30, 2021

Alabama law holds that "secrecy in the exercise of judicial power is not tolerable or justifiable," but Jefferson County Judge Tamara Harris Johnson promotes secrecy when it favors Drummond Company

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Tamara Harris Johnson   (Part Two) An Alabama judge cites a case styled Holland v. Eads, 614 So. 2d 1012 (Ala. Sup. Ct., 1993) as grounds ...
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Monday, March 29, 2021

Alabama judge steps well outside the law in sealing the record in $75-million lawsuit related to Drummond, Balch Bingham and North Birmingham bribery case

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Drummond Coal   An Alabama judge has sealed the record in a $75-million lawsuit related to the North Birmingham Superfund bribery scandal, a...
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Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Lawsuit over fatal shooting of black youth by white police officer in Mobile, AL, settles for $2.5 million after judge denies cop's request for qualified immunity

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Protesters seek justice for Michael Dashawn Moore   A Mobile, AL, woman has settled a lawsuit for $2.5 million after a white police officer ...
Monday, March 22, 2021

Kansas City police officer faces assault charge after directing "fogger spray" into a black juvenile's face during Black Lives Matter protest last summer

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    A police officer in Kansas City, MO, has been indicted for assault after spraying chemicals into the face of a 15-year-old black girl du...
Thursday, March 18, 2021

Could toxic waste from Miller Steam Plant ash ponds become a headache for Alabama Power and a threat to supplies of drinking water in the Birmingham area?

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Miller Steam Plant in west Jefferson County, AL   Alabama Power's Miller Steam Plant has been named the No. 1 emitter of greenhouse gase...
Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Alabama GOP is so stuck on Trumpism that it has declared him one of our "greatest presidents," despite mountains of undeniable evidence to the contrary

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  In less than two months on the job, Joe Biden has made remarkable progress on the noxious mess he inherited from Donald Trump. We are star...
Tuesday, March 16, 2021

Rush Limbaugh proved there was no line of decency conservatives wouldn't cross, paving the way for Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, even Donald Trump

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Rush Limbaugh   Rush Limbaugh has been dead for almost a month, but his right-wing talk show still is being broadcast in reruns on stations...
Monday, March 15, 2021

Cop's malfunctioning body camera leaves behind a flurry of questions after reporter Andrea Sahouri is acquitted on criminal charges in Des Moines, Iowa

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Andrea Sahouri   An Iowa newspaper reporter has been found not guilty of criminal charges related to her coverage of protests last summer st...
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Thursday, March 11, 2021

Johnny Dollar: How a self-serving governor and a wretched justice system took down the man who built Alabama's most successful insurance company (Part 2)

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    Johnny Dollar: The Real Life Story of John Wayne Goff , as told to Patrick Mansell ( Amazon and Kindle, 2021 ) Part Two With his favored...