City officials prepared to announce the arrival of the Harbor Lady, a 149-passenger vessel set to offer daily sightseeing and dinner cruises along the Mobile River and into Mobile Bay through the winter.
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Twenty-Five Years On, Mobile Weighs Whether Its Convention Center Delivered
A quarter century after Mobile bet its downtown revival on a waterfront convention center, business and civic figures offered a candid, divided verdict on whether the gamble paid off.
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One Vote Short: Mobile’s Sales Tax Standoff Hardens Into Political Chicken
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.
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Hattiesburg Loves the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Carnival Keeps Overbooking
Mobile’s tourism chief reported that Mississippi supplied the most out-of-state visitors to the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit and that the Carnival Holiday was routinely sailing well over capacity.
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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.