Dr. Ben Carson to Headline University of Mobile Leadership Banquet
Retired neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson was announced as the keynote speaker for the University of Mobile's Leadership Banquet at the Outlaw Convention Center.
Huckabee to Headline an Ecumenical Arts Night at Cottage Hill Baptist
Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee will keynote vivace, an arts event drawing students and performers from schools and churches across Mobile to Cottage Hill Baptist Church in January.
Mobile County Voted First: Primary Day on the Coast, and an Obama Operation ‘On Fire’
Because Super Tuesday collided with Mardi Gras, Mobile and Baldwin voted a week early. Democratic organizers reported heavy turnout in Republican strongholds and out-of-state volunteers working the county.
With Iowa and New Hampshire Behind Them, South Alabama Politicos Called the 2008 Race Wide Open
Days after Iowa and New Hampshire scrambled the field, dozens of Mobile and Baldwin county political figures offered wildly different forecasts for a presidential contest neither party could yet control.
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…
Giuliani Had a Following Among Mobile Republicans, and a Skeptic or Two
City council members, a district attorney and a state senator weighed in on the 2008 field. Rudy Giuliani drew the most support in Mobile, but not everyone in his own…
Mobile’s Political Class Surveys the 2008 Field, and Mostly Declines to Commit
Asked in mid-2007 whom they favored for president, Mobile-area officials, lawyers and businessmen produced a portrait of a Republican electorate torn between Giuliani, McCain and Romney, and a probate judge…
Why a Former Alabama GOP Chairman Settled on Romney
Marty Connors explained the research that led him to Mitt Romney, while other Alabama conservatives surveyed on the 2008 race fretted that no candidate in the Republican field could hold…