Mobile’s Moon Pie Drop Returns With Mardi Gras Parade, Live Music and Free Museum Access
Mobile is gearing up for one of its biggest New Year’s Eve celebrations yet, with the city’s signature Moon Pie drop, a Mardi Gras parade,…
Mobile Eye-Drug Startup InnoRx Sold to SurModics in $38.7 Million Deal
InnoRx Pharmaceuticals, a Mobile company built around an implant that delivers drugs inside the eye for more than a year, has been acquired by Minnesota-based SurModics in a cash-and-stock deal…
Political Chatter in Mobile: Who’s Running, Who Isn’t, and What the Mayor’s Job Is Really Worth
A shipping executive says no, a police chief eyes the sheriff's office, a businessman mulls a council run, Republicans pick a new county chairman, and Mobile's mayor earns less than…
Councilman Predicts No Racial Backlash From Mobile’s 2005 Mayoral Race
With Mayor Mike Dow expected to step aside, Councilman Fred Richardson said Mobile's history suggests voters will accept the outcome of the August mayoral election without racial discord, whoever wins.
Lessons From a Hospital Bed: How a Mobile Stockbroker Learned to Stop Chasing the Last Dollar
The concluding installment of a Mobile memoir: a foul-mouthed doctor diagnoses a pulmonary embolism, a broker survives, and a man decides that a million-dollar year is not what he will…
The Bottom Came in December: A Mobile Broker on the 1974 Crash, Recovery, and a Diagnosis He Did Not Expect
In the gloom of late 1974 a Mobile stockbroker drew up two models of the future and labeled them Doom and Boom. The market gave him his answer on December…
A Brilliant Surrender: The Provocative Case for Dissolving Mobile and Starting Over
With Mobile slipping to third-largest city in Alabama and annexation stalled, a satirical dialogue floats a radical fix: abolish the city entirely, fold it into the county and build metro…
Six Broadcasts a Day: A Mobile Broker’s Life on the Radio and in the 1974 Bear Market
A longtime Mobile stockbroker recalls the years he read market reports over WLPR, the punishing bear market of 1974, and the new options game that helped keep his family afloat.
Passed Over at 48: A Mobile Broker’s Account of Losing the Manager’s Job He Had Earned
In the next installment of his recollections, a Mobile stockbroker described reaching the top of his profession in 1968, then being displaced as office manager the following year by a…
Riley and Bronner Pressed Dow to Run Again, but Mobile’s Mayor Appeared Unmoved
Gov. Bob Riley and retirement systems chief David Bronner urged Mobile Mayor Mike Dow to seek re-election at a meeting shortly before Christmas 2004, but his backers conceded he was…
Will Delta’s Simplified Fares Finally Reach Mobile? The Airport’s Marketing Chief Explains
After Delta announced it would take its simplified-fare experiment nationwide in January 2005, Mobile Airport Authority marketing chief Marc Pelham explained what cheaper tickets would mean for local travelers.