Mobile and Baldwin County News
Facing an $18.5 million shortfall, Mobile officials weighed pay cuts, a sales tax increase, a garbage collection fee and layoffs. Each carried a political price nobody wanted to pay.
The Home Builders Association of Alabama endorsed Bradley Byrne in Fairhope, his third major business endorsement, while Ron Sparks and Robert Bentley worked the Mobile Bay donor rolls.
Scott Buzbee of Irvington announced a Democratic bid against Republican Sen. Ben Brooks in District 35, arguing south Mobile County has gotten talk instead of results in Montgomery.
Former U.S. Attorney Don Foster qualified just before Friday's deadline, giving Mobile County Democrats a candidate for an office their party has held for more than three decades.
Long before Memorial Day became the national starting gun for white shoes, Mobile mayors proclaimed Straw Hat Day just before Easter. The city archives still hold the proclamations.