Mobile’s newest councilman backed a budget that drains $21.1 million from capital funds, calling the vote a fait accompli, and was promptly handed the city’s new strategic initiative.
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Peavy Votes for the Budget He Criticized, Then Takes Charge of Rewriting the City’s Playbook
Mobile’s newest councilman backed a budget that drains $21.1 million from capital funds, calling the vote a fait accompli, and was promptly handed the city’s new strategic initiative.
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Mobile’s Paychecks Fall Behind the State’s: A Decade of Slipping Wages
Federal data show Mobile’s average wage per job fell from $400 above the Alabama average in 1992 to nearly $750 below it a decade later, a quiet reversal with real consequences.
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Omaha Company Plans Southeast’s Largest Private Cold Storage Plant on Hollingers Island
Millard Refrigeration will build a 180,000-square-foot cold storage facility in south Mobile County, a $27 million investment aimed at shipping frozen chicken overseas.
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Getting Schooled in Real Estate: Mobile County’s $8.95 Million Bet on an Old Office Building
The Mobile County school system’s proposed purchase of the old Kellogg, Brown & Root building drew sharp criticism from commercial real estate professionals, and a vigorous defense.
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Old Press Building Emerges as Temporary Home for Mobile County Probate Court
In 2004, Mobile County officials eyed a former newspaper building on Government Street as temporary quarters for Probate Court while the old courthouse was razed and the annex expanded upward.