Semmes Gets Its First Community Playground After Years of Driving Elsewhere
The Semmes Community Playground, a $600,000 park behind the community center on Moffett Road, was set to open with a ribbon-cutting on Feb. 3, 2007, the first of its kind…
Saraland Fire Rescue Lands a $54,526 Federal Grant for Operations and Safety
The Department of Homeland Security agreed to release $54,526 to the Saraland Fire Rescue Department in late 2006 under the Assistance to Firefighters Grants Program, money earmarked for operations and…
Royal Street Goes Both Ways Again as Downtown Mobile Undoes Decades of One-Way Traffic
Mobile moved in late 2006 to restore two-way traffic on Royal Street and blocks of Dauphin and St. Francis, an $800,000 project tied to the Battle House Hotel and the…
Mobile County Voters Handed Jim Folsom the Lieutenant Governor’s Office
Luther Strange ran roughly 9,000 votes behind other Republicans on the Mobile County ballot in 2006. Flip those votes and he wins statewide. Instead, Jim Folsom returned to the lieutenant…
County Commission Set to Part Ways With Longtime Attorney Merceria Ludgood
Sources said the all-Republican Mobile County Commission did not intend to renew the contract of assistant county attorney Merceria Ludgood, a Democrat with 17 years in the legal department.
Mobile’s Sales Tax Receipts Jumped More Than 20 Percent in the Month of the Tax Holiday
City figures showed Mobile collected $9.7 million in August 2006 sales taxes, up more than 20 percent from the prior year, in the month of Alabama's back-to-school sales tax holiday.
What a US Airways Takeover of Delta Would Mean at Mobile Regional Airport
With US Airways pursuing an $8 billion hostile bid for Delta in late 2006, Mobile Regional Airport's marketing director weighed better connections against the risk of higher fares and less…
Car Dealers’ Cash Lifts Democrat in Mobile County School Board Race Turning on Dodge’s Future
A $5,000 contribution from the local car dealers' PAC boosted Democrat Andrew Davis days before the 2006 election, in a Mobile County school board race shadowed by Superintendent Harold Dodge's…
Judge-Elect’s Law License in Jeopardy After Supreme Court Rejects Discipline as Too Lenient
Circuit Judge-elect Stuart DuBose faced renewed bar discipline in late 2006 after the Alabama Supreme Court rejected a suspension timed to begin the day after the election as too lenient.
Absentee Requests Sag Again in Mobile County, Pointing to Low Turnout on Election Day
Mobile County's probate judge reported 2,824 absentee ballot requests and about 1,200 returns days before the November 2006 election, figures he said pointed to a low turnout.