Mobile and Baldwin County News
A representative of the Alabama Education Association used a Mobile County school board meeting to voice frustration over a new testing requirement he says has piled work onto local teachers.…
A teachers' union representative told the Mobile County school board that educators are shouldering extra, unpaid hours to design their own quarterly tests, while district leaders defended the new approach…
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.
Amended campaign finance reports and a trail of emails documented hundreds of thousands of teachers' union robo-calls made on behalf of Robert Bentley during his Republican runoff against Bradley Byrne.
Bradley Byrne led the Republican primary for governor, but the buzz belonged to Robert Bentley. Ahead of the July 13 runoff, the fight turned on the Alabama Education Association and…
The morning after Alabama's June 1 primaries, political veterans across the Mobile Bay area tried to explain Robert Bentley's surge, Artur Davis's collapse and the defeat of a sitting attorney…
Days before Alabama's June 1 primaries, a panel of lawyers, lobbyists, former officeholders and consultants offered their forecasts on the governor's race, two district attorney contests and the fight over…
James demanded a series of public debates as attack ads roiled the Republican primary, then opened a Mobile headquarters flanked by the mayors of Satsuma, Citronelle, Bayou La Batre and…
A television spot from True Republican PAC attacks Bradley Byrne's conservative credentials by digging into his Democratic past. His campaign says the money trail leads to the teachers' lobby.
Reports that Joe Reed would back Vivian Figures against Herman Thomas cut across four decades of Mobile political rivalry, and turned on a single legislative vote about a building's name.