Mobile and Baldwin County News
Armand DeKeyser, chief of staff to U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions for eight years and a former executive assistant to Mobile Mayor Arthur Outlaw, joined the government relations group at Kilpatrick…
After the Mobile City Council retreated from a steep pay raise under public scorn, former council members offered a blunt assessment in January 2005: the job is part-time, and police…
In a January 2005 installment of his recollections of a bygone Mobile, a retired stockbroker described the frantic fortnight in which he and his partners opened a new office and…
A retired Mobile stockbroker recalled the punishing first year at a new firm, where unfamiliar exchange rules, an unhappy back office and a parsimonious owner made for slow going and…
As a new Republican county commission promised tense days for Mobile's old guard, longtime observers asked a harder question at the close of 2004: does the city still have an…
Former state Sen. Ann Bedsole dismissed talk of a mayoral run in December 2004, saying she supported Mike Dow and joining prominent Mobilians urging the mayor to take a second…
Mobile City Council President Reggie Copeland said in December 2004 he would seek a record sixth term in District 5, even as city firefighter Bryan T. Lee weighed his first…
In December 2004, a private exchange among South Alabama professionals turned into a pointed debate: were interest-only mortgages fueling Baldwin County's housing boom, and what happens if prices stop rising?
Newly elected Mobile County Commissioner Stephen Nodine acknowledged a spirited and forceful exchange with civic leaders at a December 2004 meeting, exposing deep divisions over annexation and city spending.
In December 2004, Mobile political insiders privately weighed the risks of a Peavy-Jones mayoral race dividing the city along racial lines, and floated a retail development as an annexation icebreaker.