Mobile and Baldwin County News
Mobile County's Democratic leaders were divided over $8,500 in state party money that moved through their committee to a get-out-the-vote group. The chairman called it laundering. Others called it Tuesday.
After John Holland resigned from the Mobile County school board following an ethics ruling, at least ten names circulated as possible appointees, with a state takeover looming if the board…
First-time candidate Rick Collins raised $31,600 to John Peavy's $2,800 in the opening filing period of the 2004 special election for Mobile City Council District 7, left vacant by Stephen…
Gov. Bob Riley appointed Mobile City Councilman Stephen Nodine to the vacant District 2 seat on the Mobile County Commission in July 2004, days after Nodine won the Republican runoff.
Third-place finisher Austin Rainwaters endorsed Stephen Nodine in the 2004 Mobile County Commission District 2 runoff, saying his supporters were unanimous in rejecting Ralph Buffkin.
A 2004 survey of Mobile County Commission candidates found nearly unanimous opposition to a proposed onshore liquefied natural gas terminal at Hollingers Island in south Mobile County.
An opinion from the Alabama Attorney General held that Mobile County Commissioner Freeman Jockisch vacated his seat upon his federal fraud conviction, leaving the governor to fill the vacancy.