The Spanish Fort City Council unanimously created a one-cent gas tax and raised the business license fee in September 2014, moves projected to bring in more than $95,000 a year.
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Orange Beach
Orange Beach and Baldwin County School Officials Clashed Over the Numbers Behind a Breakaway School System
Weeks before a September 2014 referendum, Orange Beach and Baldwin County school officials remained split over enrollment counts and funding projections for a proposed city-run school system.
Baldwin County
David Ed Bishop Ran on a Promise to Bring Baldwin’s Money Home
The Baldwin County commissioner and longtime Fairhope councilman joined the District 32 field, arguing the county sent more to Montgomery in lodging and gas taxes than it ever got back.
Local News
Hattiesburg Loves the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Carnival Keeps Overbooking
Mobile’s tourism chief reported that Mississippi supplied the most out-of-state visitors to the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit and that the Carnival Holiday was routinely sailing well over capacity.