Gov. Bob Riley appointed William Wynne Jr. of Daphne, chief U.S. probation officer for the Southern District of Alabama, as a special member of the state Board of Pardons and Paroles.
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Bedsole Opens Campaign Headquarters With Supply-Side Message
Former state Sen. Ann Bedsole opened her main mayoral campaign headquarters in June 2005, pairing praise for Mobile’s revitalization with a call for lower taxes and a leaner city payroll.
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County Commission Chief Tells Business Leaders: Hiring a Consultant Is Not a Rebuke
Mobile County Commission President Mike Dean assured a gathering of Forward Mobile that a $45,000 contract with an Atlanta consulting firm was not a repudiation of the area chamber of commerce.
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Baldwin County’s Longest-Serving Prosecutor Weighs His Options
Baldwin County District Attorney David Whetstone, three months into a new six-year term, acknowledged in April 2005 that retirement rumors were circulating and that some of them were true.
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A Fairhope Lawyer’s Campaign to Give Dixey Bar Its Proper Name
In March 2005, Fairhope attorney David Bagwell asked federal geographers to make Dixey Bar official, tracing its name to a clipper ship lost in a hurricane at the mouth of Mobile Bay in 1860.
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Consultants, Strategists and a Defection: Mobile’s Mayoral Campaigns Staff Up
By March 2005, Mobile’s mayoral candidates were assembling professional campaign teams, and one veteran local adman crossed the aisle from John Peavy’s camp to Ann Bedsole’s.
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Stan the New Man: A 30-Year FBI Veteran Takes a Seat on the Fairhope City Council
Dan Stankoski spent three decades at the FBI supervising violent crime, domestic terrorism and civil rights cases. Now he’s on the Fairhope City Council worrying about the next bottleneck on Highway 181.
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A Mother’s Notes to a Son: An Election, a Wedding, and a Mobile Household in 2004
A collection of e-mails from a Mobile mother to her grown son captures the 2004 election season as it was lived in one Alabama household: gloom, gallows humor, wedding logistics and a great deal of wine.
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Salvation or Snake Eyes? Two Mobilians Argue Over the Convention Center’s Return on Investment
A published conversation between two Mobile observers weighs whether the downtown convention center has paid for itself, why Government Plaza depresses them, and whether high-speed ferries would ever carry anyone.
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Small Talk in Daphne: The Quiet Newcomer Who Toppled a Political Regime
Daphne’s new mayor runs a convenience store, quietly bankrolls a Catholic school, kept every city official he inherited and says his only agenda is controlling the growth barreling toward the Eastern Shore.