With ThyssenKrupp rising near Calvert, Austal expanding downtown and aircraft work possible at Brookley, a veteran labor lawyer was asked whether organized labor would ride the boom back into Mobile. His answer: don’t count on it.
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A Falling Stock Price, a Phone Call to a Senator, and Champagne at Brookley
Mobile learned it had won the Air Force tanker contract in a scramble of stock tickers, cell phone calls and hastily bought sandwiches, and the political consequences began almost immediately.
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Before the Tanker Verdict, Mobile Chased Rumors Across the World
With a $40 billion Air Force tanker decision imminent and an assembly line at stake for Brookley Field, an unsourced report in a foreign wire service set Mobile talking — and talk of a split contract gained ground.
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Bubba, Mayer, Mr. Mitchell: Friends Recall a Mobile Life of Outsized Reach
Friends and colleagues remembered Mayer ‘Bubba’ Mitchell, the Mobile developer and philanthropist who died at 74, as a man whose influence ran from Leinkauf School to the White House.
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President Bush Was Set to Headline a $750,000 Sessions Fundraiser in Mobile
A June reception at the Arthur R. Outlaw Convention Center, at $1,000 a ticket, aimed to raise $750,000 for Jeff Sessions’ 2008 re-election campaign, with the president himself as the draw.
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‘Bridging Racial Disparity’: A Conservative Forum on Poverty Came to Mobile
U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions, County Commissioner Juan Chastang and ADECA Director Bill Johnson headlined the Washington/Douglass Economic Forum, a Republican-sponsored think tank session on poverty and race.
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Congressman Artur Davis Works a Mobile Room as Talk of Higher Office Grows
U.S. Rep. Artur Davis of Birmingham came to Mobile for a Dutch-treat luncheon with three dozen politically active locals, an introduction arranged as speculation about a future statewide run followed him.
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Oddsmaker Made Mike Dow the Favorite for Governor. Alabama’s Political Class Was Not Buying It.
A nationally known Mobile oddsmaker installed former Mayor Mike Dow as an even-money favorite in the 2010 governor’s race. Consultants, lawyers and party officials lined up to explain why the number was absurd.
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Sessions’ Chief of Staff, With Deep Mobile Roots, Moves to a Washington Lobbying Practice
Armand DeKeyser, chief of staff to U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions for eight years and a former executive assistant to Mobile Mayor Arthur Outlaw, joined the government relations group at Kilpatrick Stockton in January 2005.
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Mobile Lumber Executive Says No to 2006 Governor’s Race as the Field Keeps Growing
Gulf Lumber executive Sandy Stimpson has taken himself out of the 2006 governor’s race, but the line of prospective candidates in both parties is barely any shorter for it.