Mobile and Baldwin County News
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren has endorsed Kiani Gardner in the Democratic runoff for Alabama’s 1st Congressional District, the Gulf Coast seat often referred to as Lower Alabama. Gardner, a college…
State Rep. Napoleon Bracy filed a bill to raise Mobile County's minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, above the federal floor, starting in 2016.
Alabama Democrats selected Atmore City Councilwoman Susan Smith to carry the party banner in state Senate District 22 after the incumbent abruptly withdrew from the race following the qualifying period.
Days after the 2012 election, attorneys, consultants and officials across the Mobile Bay area weighed the winners and losers beyond the obvious, from ticket-splitting to the AEA’s comeback.
On the eve of Election Day, attorneys, officials and operatives across Mobile and Baldwin County offered sharply divided predictions on whether President Obama or Mitt Romney would prevail in 2012.
Legal and Justice Department sources said the congressman defeated in Alabama's Democratic gubernatorial primary could be offered the U.S. attorney's job in Montgomery, a post left conspicuously unfilled.
The state party's Black political caucus endorsed former Circuit Judge Herman Thomas over incumbent Sen. Vivian Figures, giving a jolt to one of Mobile's most closely watched Democratic primaries.
About 50 supporters gathered at Skyland Shopping Center as the congressman opened a Mobile campaign office, telling the crowd he was not the candidate for anyone content with insider politics.
The congressman's health care vote and his snub of black political organizations have infuriated Democrats. Mobile's mayor disagrees with both moves and says he is voting for him regardless.
Don Foster told the county Democratic committee he would stack his record against either Republican. Across town, criminal defense lawyers filled a courtyard for attorney general candidate Michel Nicrosi.