Randy McKinney Opened His Senate Bid With Education and Ethics
The Gulf Shores businessman and State School Board member entered the race for the Baldwin County Senate seat vacated by Bradley Byrne, pledging tighter ethics rules and tax relief for…
Gunfire Struck a MAWSS Truck as Crews Turned On Water in North Mobile
Two Mobile Area Water and Sewer System employees escaped injury when a shot shattered the rear window of their truck on Next Street. The utility's director called the episode very…
130 Boxes and a Termite Problem: A Mobile Political Life Went to the Archives
Former City Commissioner Lambert Mims donated more than 130 boxes of papers, photographs and reel-to-reel tapes to the University of South Alabama, documenting a quarter century in Mobile politics.
Byrne’s Exit Set Off a Republican Scramble in Baldwin County
Bradley Byrne's move to the two-year college chancellor's office opened Senate District 32 in the most Republican county in Alabama. Party insiders handicapped a field that had not yet formed.
Sheriff Sam Cochran Made a Crowded Metro Jail His First Order of Business
Mobile County's sheriff told a civic club he had cut the jail population by hundreds, won a raise for corrections officers and put technology at the center of his department,…
Mayor Sam Jones Liked Mobile’s Hand as the ThyssenKrupp Decision Neared
With a $2.9 billion steel mill decision expected within days, Mobile Mayor Sam Jones told a civic club he would not trade places with Louisiana, and laid out where the…
Coy’s Rules: The Three Commandments a Mobile County Commissioner Left Behind
Former Commissioner Bay Haas recalled the three rules of political survival handed down by the late Coy Smith, a ballplayer, saloon keeper and commissioner whose career ended in a federal…
A Mobile Native’s Long-Shot Bid for Birmingham City Hall Drew Notice Back Home
Patrick Cooper, son of a Mobile banker and former ambassador and nephew of a pioneering Prichard mayor, entered Birmingham's mayoral race as an underdog with a famous surname and no…
Keep the Fires Burning: A Mobile Family Memoir Reaches Its Close
The sixth and final chapter of Sister Marie Emilie's memoir carried the Walsh family from a Spring Hill summer in 1900 through loss, vocation and a sheaf of poems written…
A Yellow Fever Scare and a Train to Canada: A Mobile Childhood Recalled
A serialized memoir by Sister Marie Emilie, born Elizabeth Zoe Walsh in 1892, recalled a yellow fever scare that sent her north by rail and a Mobile childhood spent between…