Water, Heat and the Weight of History: Mobilians Sound Off, Part Three
A third round of candid replies found Mobile residents praising the bay, live oaks and Southern charm while venting about crime, the school board, sprawl and a feeling of being…
What Mobilians Love and Loathe About Their City, Part One
In the fall of 2005, with a new mayor at City Hall and Katrina's cleanup underway, dozens of Mobile residents answered three questions about what they loved, what they loathed…
Brookley Field Lands the EADS Tanker Plant and Its Promise of 1,000 Jobs
Local lawmakers said Mobile's Brookley Field was about to be named the winner of EADS North America's nationwide search for a tanker program site, an aerospace prize starting with 200…
From Spring Hill to Kilimanjaro: Rep. Jamie Ison Trains for Africa’s Highest Peak
State Rep. Jamie Ison, a former director for the deaf and blind, was training twice a day to join blind mountaineer Erik Weihenmayer on a late-summer climb of Mount Kilimanjaro,…
Mobile’s Civic Delegation Went to Baltimore Looking for a Blueprint
More than 100 Mobilians joined the Chamber's annual leadership trip to Baltimore in June 2005, studying the rebounding city's accountability programs, 311 call center and revived Inner Harbor for lessons…
‘We Are in the Golden Age Now’: A Councilman on Race Relations in Mobile
Asked in March 2005 to name Mobile's golden age, City Councilman Fred Richardson answered with the present tense, and pointed to a small change in newspaper style as a milestone.