A Special Investigative Report By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on March 24, 2019 On July 2, 2012, Airbus announced that...

A Special Investigative Report By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on March 23, 2019 When two new $120 million Boeing 737 MAX...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on March 18, 2019 On July 27, 2012, Weld for Birmingham Publisher Mark Kelly issued a...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on March 17, 2019 Yesterday, AL. com columnist Kyle Whitmire ran a long and rambling...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on March 16, 2019 My federal court trial on ten counts of conspiracy, bank fraud, and...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on March 15, 2019 On March 8, 2019, a federal jury in Birmingham, Alabama convicted me on...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on March 9, 2019 Yesterday, a federal jury in Birmingham, Alabama convicted me on all ten...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on February 9, 2019 Embattled Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax no longer enjoys the...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on February 6, 2019 This one photograph says it all. Governor Ralph Northam (center), Lt....

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on February 3, 2019 I have written on many occasions that Rosa Parks was a dear friend of...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on February 2, 2019 Yesterday, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam confessed on video and in...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on February 2, 2019 We all make dumb mistakes in life. Most of these mistakes do not have...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on January 20, 2019 I never knew her name, but I never forgot my chance encounter with...

Emory Folmar was mayor of Montgomery, Alabama from 1977 to 1999. During this period, our personal and political relationship transmogrified from fierce adversaries into loyal and powerful allies for life. This article explains why.

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on January 17, 2019 On January 6, 2019, Dr. Frank Franklin emailed John Hammontree, the...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on January 16, 2019 On July 20, 2018, a Balch & Bingham attorney and the Drummond Company...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on January 13, 2019; Updated at 2:30 p.m. EST Today, AL.com retracted and apologized for...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on January 10, 2019 For the past two decades,The Birmingham News has established a clear...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on January 9, 2019 On November 29, 2018, John Archibald, a columnist/reporter for the...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on January 6, 2019 John Robert Wooden (October 14, 1910 – June 4, 2010) was the head...