Mobile and Baldwin County News
Mobile County Commissioner Mike Dean looked at a Republican primary fight and a likely Democratic opponent in his 2008 re-election bid, with names from Dauphin Island to Bayou La Batre…
Bob Riley won, Luther Strange and John Tyson lost. But when the sun came up Wednesday, Mobile-area political hands saw a more complicated ledger of winners and losers across Alabama.
Democrats celebrated nationally and cheered statewide but stumbled in Mobile County. Party figures and consultants dissected losses by Gary Tanner, Chip Herrington and Pat Lindsey and asked what the results…
From Wintzell's to a riverside restaurant on Dog River, Mobile-area candidates and their supporters made plans to gather across the region as voters prepared to decide their fates on Tuesday.
As a hard-fought general election approached, attorneys, lobbyists and officials around Mobile and Baldwin counties handicapped races from governor to the local juvenile bench, and braced for a low turnout.
If Ben Brooks unseated Sen. Gary Tanner in 2006, the result would open a Mobile City Council seat, revive a county commission rivalry and set off a scramble that would…
Mobile City Councilman Ben Brooks scheduled an April 2006 rally and barbecue on Highway 90 West to kick off his Republican campaign for Alabama Senate District 35 against George Callahan.
Former state Sen. George Callahan opened his 2006 bid to reclaim south Mobile County's District 35 seat with a shrimp boil in Coden that he said drew more than 200…
District Attorney John Tyson Jr. brought on a West Virginia fundraising firm and a Mobile media consultant for his Democratic campaign for Alabama attorney general against Republican incumbent Troy King.
The consultant behind Sam Jones' mayoral win said Mobile's four-term former mayor would be the odds-on favorite in the governor's race if he entered it. Dow, busy with a new…