Councilwoman Gina Gregory announced she would supply the fifth vote for a temporary one-cent sales tax increase, in exchange for a written commitment to an efficiency study and a list of cost concessions.
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Oil Spill Upends Politics: Byrne Endorsement Rollout in Mobile Postponed
A press conference at which area legislators and council members were to endorse gubernatorial candidate Bradley Byrne was called off as the Gulf oil spill scrambled schedules along the coast.
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One Vote Short: Mobile’s Sales Tax Standoff Hardens Into Political Chicken
With an $18.5 million deficit and a five-vote requirement, Mayor Sam Jones fell a single council vote short of a one-cent sales tax increase, leaving three members holding extraordinary leverage.
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Sales Tax Hike Falls 3-3-1 as Mobile Council Rejects Jones, and Layoffs Loom
Buried under hundreds of angry emails and calls, Mayor Sam Jones’s penny sales tax died in a 3-3-1 vote on Tax Day. As many as 300 city jobs are now in question.
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Counting to Five: The Sales Tax Vote Rests on One Council Member
Mayor Sam Jones has made his case for a penny sales tax. The measure was laid over Tuesday, and the arithmetic on a seven-member council now points to a single undecided vote.
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Red Dresses, a Senator’s Breakfast and the Endless Question of Downtown Parking
A heart association fundraiser at the Battle House put local officials on a fashion runway, Alabama’s senior senator prepared to address a business forum, and downtown Mobile revisited its most persistent complaint.
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A Restless Electorate: Mobile Voters Wanted a Candidate Who Didn’t Exist
By late summer 2007, a striking number of Mobile’s civic and business figures had looked over both fields and found nobody who fit. One of them said the ideal candidate was Bob Riley.
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A Courthouse Reshuffle Looms: 40-Year Judge to Retire, Challengers Line Up
The pending retirement of Circuit Judge Ferrill D. McRae after four decades on the bench set off a scramble among Mobile attorneys, while other courthouse offices drew challengers for 2006.