Mobile and Baldwin County News
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Bradley Byrne, a Mobile native running for the First Congressional District seat, made his case to Southwest Alabama voters in September 2013 by leaning on his record cleaning up Alabama’s…
During Mobile's 2013 mayoral race, the campaigns of Sandy Stimpson and Sam Jones gave differing levels of detail when asked about hiring local businesses and consultants.
In the spring of 2013, Mobile businessman Sandy Stimpson sat down for an in-depth interview as he campaigned to become the next mayor of Mobile, Alabama. A civil engineering graduate…
Businessman Sandy Stimpson entered the 2013 Mobile mayoral race saying he could no longer stand on the sidelines while the city fell short of its potential. In an interview, the…
Mayor Sam Jones hosted a regional summit in Mobile bringing together mayors, federal officials and rail advocates to press for the return of Gulf Coast passenger rail service lost after…
As dueling committees, a $29 million disputed deficit and shifting council alliances collided, Mobile's budget saga looked to many residents like a greased-pig chase with the numbers impossible to pin…
Hopjacks Pizza Kitchen & Taproom shut the doors of its Dauphin Street restaurant in downtown Mobile on Saturday, July 28, leaving another storefront dark along the city’s lower Dauphin entertainment…
Mayor Sam Jones cast Mobile's budget fight in a brighter light after the Airbus announcement, but Councilman John Williams said the good news changed nothing about the city's need to…
House Speaker Mike Hubbard was chosen to lead the Southern Legislative Conference, which announced it would hold its next annual meeting in Mobile, bringing lawmakers from across the South to…
Bud Ratliff resigned as director of the Mobile Sports Authority amid questions over financial transactions, and the board quickly named former sports commission chief Danny Corte as interim director.