Judges, lawyers, party officials and consultants across Mobile and the Eastern Shore delivered a split verdict on Barack Obama’s selection of Sen. Joe Biden as his running mate in August 2008.
Tag: 2008
Local News
A New Saucy Q at Cottage Hill and Schillinger Gets a Polite, Qualified Nod
A Saturday errand run produced a barbecue review in May 2008: clean new dining room, adequate sandwiches, over-salted fries and an award-winning sauce that failed to impress one Mobile critic.
Baldwin County
Wrestling the Bear: A Baldwin County Retiree’s Plan to Trade His Way to Disney World
With the market falling and a promised family trip on the line, a retired paper mill manager in Baldwin County laid out the leveraged ETF trading system he used to generate income in a bear market.
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A Katrina Refugee Restaurant Finds a Second Life in a Paper Mill Town
A Mobile dining critic on the road found the Big Easy Grill in Bogalusa, Louisiana, a restaurant destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in St. Bernard Parish and rebuilt next to a Piggly Wiggly.
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Macaroni Grill on Airport Boulevard: The Best of the Chains, With Reservations
A Sunday lunch after church at Macaroni Grill on Airport Boulevard produced a measured verdict in May 2008: better than most national chains in Mobile, but still trailing Carrabba’s.
Baldwin County
Former Restaurateur Rick Gambino Enters the Fairhope Mayor’s Race
Rick Gambino, whose family restaurant was once among Fairhope’s largest employers, announced his candidacy for mayor in May 2008, pledging fiscal conservatism and a promise to keep Fairhope, Fairhope.
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Scores, Snobs and Robert Parker: A Mobile Wine Merchant on What Wine Writing Is For
As the Burgundy authority Clive Coates prepared to attack the wine press by name, a Mobile wine shop manager offered a more complicated defense of Robert Parker, and a warning about the tyranny of the score.
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Rose Season Arrives in Mobile, and a Wine Buyer Makes His Annual Case for Pink
Rose wines reach the shelves in late spring and vanish by midsummer. In April 2008 a Mobile wine merchant explained how they are made, why they were long dismissed, and which French bottles to buy first.
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Reggie Copeland, at 79, Says His Political Career Is Going to Overtime
Three years after calling his sixth campaign his last, Mobile City Council President Reggie Copeland said in April 2008 he would seek a record seventh term, and talked up a soccer complex at Bates Field.
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Three Democrats, Two Tax Bills and a Question of Trust in the District 3 School Board Race
Appointed school commissioner Fleet Belle sought election in his own right in 2008, campaigning on trust between board and superintendent, while he and a rival turned up on the county’s delinquent tax list.