South Alabama legislators warned that Gov. Bentley’s proposed special session on Jefferson County’s debt was dead on arrival unless it also addressed the coastal homeowners insurance crisis.
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A Mobile Family’s Son Leads the Birmingham Mayor’s Race Into a Runoff
Attorney Patrick Cooper, son of retired Maj. Gen. Gary Cooper of Mobile, led the field in the Birmingham mayoral election and headed into a January runoff against William Bell.
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Jefferson County’s Debt Crisis Threatened to Poison the Well for Every Alabama Borrower
As Alabama’s largest county lurched toward what would be the biggest public bankruptcy in U.S. history, financial professionals warned that bond insurers had begun blacklisting the entire state, Mobile included.
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He Wanted the Job So He Could Eliminate It: A Candidate Runs to Abolish the County Treasurer’s Office
The chairman of the Mobile County Democratic Party announced a run for county treasurer on a pledge to shut the office down within two years, calling the post an expensive relic of another era.