Mobile Jewish Federation Honors Longtime Volunteer, Recognizes Sen. Sessions
The Mobile Area Jewish Federation honored a longtime local volunteer with its Devorah Award and gave Sen. Jeff Sessions its first Friend of Israel honor.
Mobile County Weighs Repurposing NOAA Disaster Center Instead of Building New EMA Hub
Mobile County officials are weighing whether to repurpose NOAA's Disaster Response Center in West Mobile instead of spending millions on a new emergency operations center, even as the county moves…
Mobile Tea Party Group Snubs Bentley, Backs Write-Ins Over Unopposed Republicans
Mobile's Common Sense Campaign withheld support for Gov. Robert Bentley over Common Core while backing several local write-in candidates.
Tea Party Express Rolls into Mobile for ‘Fighting for Liberty’ Rally
The Tea Party Express's national 'Fighting for Liberty' bus tour stopped in downtown Mobile on April 23, 2014, drawing Sen. Jeff Sessions and area conservatives ahead of that year's midterm…
A Senator for the Defense: Richard Shelby Gets Appointed to a Mobile Drug Case
A clerical mix-up in Mobile County District Court assigned U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby to represent an indigent defendant. The senator called the judge himself to sort it out.
Acquitted Ex-Judge Herman Thomas Weighs a Run Against Vivian Figures
Months after his acquittal, former judge Herman Thomas was among several prominent figures weighing a challenge to state Sen. Vivian Figures, whose family had testified for the prosecution at his…
‘Blackmail’ and ‘French Workers’: A Kansas Congressman Escalates the Tanker War
As Mobile fumed over one senator's slight, a Kansas congressman kept up his own campaign against the Airbus-built tanker, accusing supporters of the aircraft of blackmailing the Air Force.
‘I Accept the Challenge’: Mobile Answers a Senator Who Said Alabama Builds Nothing
A Washington senator told NPR she had never seen anyone in Alabama build anything. Mobile's mayor, a county commissioner and a candidate for governor lined up to correct her, and…
Sessions Takes the Senate Floor to Defend Alabama Workers and the Mobile Tanker Bid
U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions used a Senate floor speech to answer a colleague's slight against Alabama workers and to argue that the Pentagon had rewritten the aerial tanker bid rules…
Son of the Late Lambert Mims Offers a Dissenting History of Mobile’s Corruption Years
In a lengthy letter, Dale Mims disputed a published account of Mobile's era of political indictments, arguing the prosecutions of the 1970s and 1980s were shaped by displaced money and…