Mobile and Baldwin County News
The council president questioned the promotion budget, the ticket printing, the mayor's luncheon and a step show with no revenue, and disputed the attendance count for a football game the…
The Mobile City Council debated a rewrite of the city's noise ordinance on March 4, 2008, where Councilman Fred Richardson floated the idea of 'noise flags' to help flag problem…
A second round of Mobile-area figures weighed the 2008 field, from a license commissioner drawn to John Edwards and Joe Biden to a trio of Republicans backing California congressman Duncan…
Gov. Bob Riley named Mobile teacher and Republican Juan Chastang to the county commission, filling the three years remaining on Sam Jones' term after Jones became Mobile's first African-American mayor.
Frontrunner Sam Jones raised more than $77,000 and spent nearly $180,000 in the weeks before Mobile's Sept. 13 mayoral runoff against City Councilman John Peavy.
Days before Mobile's Aug. 23 election, the seven candidates for the open District 7 City Council seat filed campaign finance reports, revealing firefighter money, police endorsements and a self-funded restaurateur.
More than 100 Mobilians joined the Chamber's annual leadership trip to Baltimore in June 2005, studying the rebounding city's accountability programs, 311 call center and revived Inner Harbor for lessons…
Asked in March 2005 to name Mobile's golden age, City Councilman Fred Richardson answered with the present tense, and pointed to a small change in newspaper style as a milestone.
Councilman Thomas Sullivan says he followed every city procedure in spending $3,100 in public money on tennis lessons and tournament travel for supporters' children. Four of his colleagues say it…
With Mayor Mike Dow expected to step aside, Councilman Fred Richardson said Mobile's history suggests voters will accept the outcome of the August mayoral election without racial discord, whoever wins.