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,…
Nobody Rings a Bell at the Top: A Mobile Brokerage’s Bear Market Revolt
Part eleven of a memoir of a bygone Mobile: a brutal 1962 bear market, a boss who berated a broker on the morning his mother-in-law was dying, and the plot…
Newcomer Outraises Veteran 10 to 1 in the Special Election for Mobile’s District 7 Council Seat
First-time candidate Rick Collins raised $31,600 to John Peavy's $2,800 in the opening filing period of the 2004 special election for Mobile City Council District 7, left vacant by Stephen…
Hap-pening or Hap-less? A Senate Retirement Rumor Freezes the Field in District 34
State Sen. Hap Myers said in August 2004 he would likely seek a fourth term, a signal that scrambled the plans of would-be successors in Alabama Senate District 34 ahead…
Retired Republican Judge Endorses the Democrat in the Race for Juvenile Court
Retired Mobile County Circuit Judge John Butler, a Republican who spent 22 years overseeing juvenile court, endorsed Democrat Jeff Glidewell over the GOP incumbent appointed to succeed him.
Former State GOP Chairman Quits Party Committees After Backing a Democrat for District Attorney
Roger McConnell, a former Alabama Republican Party chairman from Mobile, resigned from the state and county GOP executive committees in 2004 after co-hosting a fundraiser for Democratic District Attorney John…
Riley Appoints Nodine to Vacant Mobile County Commission Seat Days After Runoff Win
Gov. Bob Riley appointed Mobile City Councilman Stephen Nodine to the vacant District 2 seat on the Mobile County Commission in July 2004, days after Nodine won the Republican runoff.
Runoff Money: Nodine and Buffkin Empty the Tank Before the June 29 Vote
Final campaign finance reports before the June 29, 2004 runoff showed Stephen Nodine and Ralph Buffkin each spending more than they raised, leaving both nearly broke on the eve of…
To Dow or Not to Dow: The Mayor’s Long Shadow Over the District 2 Runoff
As Ralph Buffkin and Stephen Nodine headed toward a June 2004 runoff, both raced to distance themselves from Mayor Mike Dow. A look inside four mayoral elections explains why.
‘That Ronald Reagan Smile’: A Mobile Woman’s Inaugural Ball Encounter With the 40th President
As the nation mourned Ronald Reagan in June 2004, a Mobile woman recounted how persistence, Southern charm and a sympathetic Secret Service agent let her press a medal into the…
Rainwaters Endorses Nodine, Handing Him a Bloc of Anti-Establishment Votes in the Runoff
Third-place finisher Austin Rainwaters endorsed Stephen Nodine in the 2004 Mobile County Commission District 2 runoff, saying his supporters were unanimous in rejecting Ralph Buffkin.