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Gulf Coast Recovery Council Holds Off on BP Settlement Spending

James Bullard, July 24, 2015

Local officials overseeing BP oil spill settlement funds for Mobile and Baldwin counties are pausing new decisions until federal guidance arrives.

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Mobile Musician’s Oil Spill Song Takes On New Meaning Years Later

James Bullard, April 24, 2015

A Mobile musician’s instrumental written after the Deepwater Horizon spill has taken on new personal meaning following his brother’s death, years later.

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A Katrina Refugee Restaurant Finds a Second Life in a Paper Mill Town

James Bullard, May 28, 2008July 16, 2026

A Mobile dining critic on the road found the Big Easy Grill in Bogalusa, Louisiana, a restaurant destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in St. Bernard Parish and rebuilt next to a Piggly Wiggly.

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Could Surplus FEMA Trailers House the Steel Mill’s Construction Army?

James Bullard, June 25, 2007

With 29,000 construction workers expected for a $3.7 billion steel mill in north Mobile County, a former Mobile mayor floated an unusual fix: haul surplus FEMA trailers to a planned motorsports park near Prichard.

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