My work: Investigative commentary
"There are no opinions," a college professor once told me. "Only arguments. And some arguments are better than others." Good arguments are built on foundations of fact. Likewise, good commentary is built on deep, careful reporting. Some of my best work is investigative commentary, blending the best of my two skill sets to tell readers something they didn't know and to help them understand what it means.
Meet the architect of Alabama’s voting rights defiance
Court records show the state’s solicitor general helped draw maps, wrote legislation and even gave lawmakers talking points.
Kyle Whitmire | kwhitmireal.com
Alabama GOP chairman made the photo ID he used to vote
Secretary of State says it wasn’t a valid voter ID.
Kyle Whitmire | kwhitmireal.com
Alabama governor sends education dollars to water park
Montgomery whitewater development behind schedule, over budget.
Kyle Whitmire | kwhitmireal.com
Drones help police pollution in Alabama. Lawmakers want to make that a crime.
Coal lobbyists have been planning this for years, documents show.
Kyle Whitmire | kwhitmireal.com
Dirty Business: How Alabama conspired against its own people
Political elites worked with polluters to leave poisons in the soil of some of Birmingham’s most vulnerable neighborhoods.
Kyle Whitmire | kwhitmireal.com
Don’t believe Roy Moore’s accusers? Then listen to Moore
Moore says he first took notice of his wife when she was 15 or 16. He was about 30.
Kyle Whitmire | kwhitmireal.com
The calamitous rise and fall of Larry Langford
I believe it only because I was there.
Kyle Whitmire | kwhitmireal.com
Learn more about my work: From the heart
My work: From the heart
As much as I enjoy giving public officials hell, the work that gets the best reader response might be when I write about the things closest to me. When each of my children were born, I used the privilege of my post to write each of them an open letter
