2008 Report Described Growing Investor Interest in Mobile and Baldwin Counties
A 2008 WKRG report said investors from around the country were looking at property in Mobile and Baldwin counties amid major industrial-development expectations.
A Retired Union Leader Entered the Treasurer’s Race — With One Condition
Don Langham said he would run for Mobile County treasurer as a Democrat unless party officials allowed a troubled congressional candidate to qualify, a caveat that revealed the party's anxieties.
Rising Food Costs Pressured Mobile Catering Businesses in 2008
A 2008 report examined how higher food and fuel prices raised costs for a Mobile catering business, prompting changes to pricing and more work to protect its bottom line.
A Revenue Department Veteran Entered the License Commissioner’s Race
Michelle Mayberry, a 24-year state revenue department manager and the daughter of a late Mobile circuit judge, announced a Republican campaign for license commissioner on a platform of 'citizen service.'
Mobile Democrats Opened Their Season With Karaoke, a Food Drive and a Treasurer’s Race in Flux
County Democrats planned a kickoff reception with neighboring party chairs from three states, a retired union leader weighed a run for treasurer, and a Bishop State student announced for school…
Qualifying Season Arrived, and Mobile County’s Ballot Filled Up Fast
A former Prichard councilman entered the school board race, a former county commissioner passed, and courthouse offices from revenue to license commissioner drew a scramble of prospects as the filing…
A Minister, a Retired Teacher and an Ousted Superintendent: The 2008 School Board Field Takes Shape
Three prospects surfaced for seats on the Mobile County Board of School Commissioners, including a 25-year-old assistant pastor from Whistler and a superintendent who had just been replaced.
Oral Histories, a Climate Teach-In and a Bridge Reopening: Mobile’s Late-Winter Calendar
A national oral history project came to Mobile's libraries, students organized a global warming teach-in at South Alabama, tourism officials courted snowbirds, and the Navco Road bridge neared reopening.
2007 Report Said Mobile Housing Market Was Holding Up
A 2007 WKRG report said University of South Alabama researchers viewed the Mobile-area housing market as comparatively healthy despite a national slowdown.
Bubba, Mayer, Mr. Mitchell: Friends Recall a Mobile Life of Outsized Reach
Friends and colleagues remembered Mayer 'Bubba' Mitchell, the Mobile developer and philanthropist who died at 74, as a man whose influence ran from Leinkauf School to the White House.