Record Pump Prices Squeeze Mobile Drivers as Alabama Average Nears $4.30
Drivers across Mobile are rethinking how often they turn the key as fuel costs climb to levels the city has never seen before. Regular gasoline in Mobile set a record…
Mobile Organizers Join Blackout Day Push to Steer Spending to Black-Owned Businesses
A national campaign asking Black Americans to withhold their spending for a single day, or to direct it exclusively to Black-owned businesses, drew organizers in Mobile into the effort. The…
Thanksgiving Shoppers Say the Long Lines Were Worth It at Mobile’s McGowan Park
MOBILE — Thanksgiving dinner had barely been cleared away before the holiday shopping season took over at McGowan Park, where hundreds of people queued up outside stores Thursday afternoon hunting…
USA economist Donald Epley says ‘buy local’ could keep $21 billion in Mobile region
Buying local could be worth more than $21 billion a year to the Mobile-area economy, according to a University of South Alabama economist who recently laid out the region’s “importing”…
Falling Gas Prices Give Baldwin County Drivers Extra Cash to Spend
A record streak of falling gas prices in early 2015 left Baldwin County drivers with extra cash, boosting local spending and consumer confidence.
‘You Can’t Reform a Junkie With More Drugs’: Mobile Business Owners Sound Off on the Sales Tax Plan
Retailers, accountants, builders and executives across Mobile weighed in on the proposed one-cent sales tax increase, with most arguing City Hall must cut spending before reaching into shoppers' pockets.