Mobile and Baldwin County News
Coverage of Connie Hudson from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
With an $18.5 million deficit and a five-vote requirement, Mayor Sam Jones fell a single council vote short of a one-cent sales tax increase, leaving three members holding extraordinary leverage.
A Mobile tea party organizer argued the city's $18.5 million shortfall was the product of optimistic budget assumptions, and urged the council to exhaust cost cuts and asset sales before…
Buried under hundreds of angry emails and calls, Mayor Sam Jones's penny sales tax died in a 3-3-1 vote on Tax Day. As many as 300 city jobs are now…
Mayor Sam Jones has made his case for a penny sales tax. The measure was laid over Tuesday, and the arithmetic on a seven-member council now points to a single…
Contested races for the state Republican Executive Committee in Mobile and Baldwin counties will be decided June 1, alongside the district attorney and state Senate contests drawing the headlines.
Mark Erwin's district attorney campaign assembled a fundraising host list spanning ex-congressmen, former mayors, sitting legislators and both parties, aiming to raise roughly $70,000 in two hours.
A blue-chip Mobile host committee prepared to stage a September 2009 reception for Luther Strange, who was challenging incumbent Republican Attorney General Troy King in the coming primary.
Facing a Tampa Tribune report that the Senior Bowl was eyeing a move, MASA chairman Vic Lott issued a detailed rebuttal in April 2009, even as Mayor Sam Jones' comments…
A Tampa newspaper report that the Senior Bowl might leave Mobile set off a firestorm. With the Ladd-Peebles lease expired and city funding denied twice, the timing looked less like…
With municipal elections set for the summer of 2009, Councilwoman Connie Hudson announced a bid for a third term while challenger Ron Wallace scheduled his first community meeting in District…