Mobile and Baldwin County News
Coverage of local government from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
As a new Republican county commission promised tense days for Mobile's old guard, longtime observers asked a harder question at the close of 2004: does the city still have an…
Former state Sen. Ann Bedsole dismissed talk of a mayoral run in December 2004, saying she supported Mike Dow and joining prominent Mobilians urging the mayor to take a second…
Mobile City Council President Reggie Copeland said in December 2004 he would seek a record sixth term in District 5, even as city firefighter Bryan T. Lee weighed his first…
Newly elected Mobile County Commissioner Stephen Nodine acknowledged a spirited and forceful exchange with civic leaders at a December 2004 meeting, exposing deep divisions over annexation and city spending.
In December 2004, Mobile political insiders privately weighed the risks of a Peavy-Jones mayoral race dividing the city along racial lines, and floated a retail development as an annexation icebreaker.
Sources said in December 2004 that Mobile Mayor Mike Dow did not intend to seek a fifth term, setting up an expected 2005 mayoral race between City Councilman John Peavy…