Mobile County spent more than $79 million on wages and benefits for 1,764 employees in 2014, with the sheriff’s office driving much of the overtime total.
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Mobile
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Top 20 Mobile County Employees Collected Nearly $493,000 in Overtime Last Year
Payroll records show Mobile County’s highest overtime earners, mostly sheriff’s deputies and jail staff, collected close to half a million dollars combined.
Mobile
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After the Sales Tax Vote, a Mobile Citizen Presses the City Council on Discipline
A Mobile resident wrote the City Council after its vote to raise the sales tax for 16 months, urging members to demand austerity, transparency and hard metrics from the Jones administration.
Local News
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Mobile’s Highest-Paid City Employees Named as Deficit Looms
Documents tied to Mobile’s effort to close a projected $18.5 million budget gap listed the city’s 100 highest-paid employees, topped by the public works director.
Baldwin County
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Former Alabama GOP Chairman Says His Own Party Helped Pave the Road to Bigger Government
Marty Connors, former chairman of the Alabama Republican Party, argued that Republicans could not credibly attack federal spending without first admitting how much of it they had authorized themselves.