Mobile and Baldwin County News
With ThyssenKrupp rising near Calvert, Austal expanding downtown and aircraft work possible at Brookley, a veteran labor lawyer was asked whether organized labor would ride the boom back into Mobile.…
A newspaper interview in August 2008 seemed to say EADS would build commercial aircraft in Mobile whether or not it won the Air Force tanker contract. The company said that…
Archived WKRG coverage reported on a Mobile group that launched a 2008 advertising campaign supporting the Northrop Grumman/EADS tanker project.
Promised anonymity, Mobile developers and executives delivered a blunt 2008 verdict on the city's permitting, its economic development effort and its habit of favoring public projects over private capital.
The GAO found the Air Force made significant math errors in scoring a $35 billion tanker contract, casting new doubt on plans for an aircraft assembly plant at Brookley Field…
Steel at Calvert, tankers at Brookley, a new container terminal and a downtown tower: in mid-2008, Mobile leaders argued the long-promised boom had finally arrived, while cautioning it was not…
As Mobile celebrated steel plants and tanker contracts in 2008, retired Dauphin Island Sea Lab director George Crozier warned that unmanaged growth could undo 40 years of hard-won water quality…
A retired executive told the Rotary Club of Mobile in June 2008 that Forward Mobile, an unpublicized circle of about 40 civic and business leaders, had quietly shaped decades of…
Archived WKRG coverage described planned 2008 Brookley construction milestones while the Air Force tanker award remained under review.
As Boeing protested the Air Force's tanker contract award, Mobile-area supporters of the rival Northrop Grumman/EADS bid organized a Facebook group urging residents to weigh in through a congressional survey.