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State Rep. Jamie Ison, a former director for the deaf and blind, was training twice a day to join blind mountaineer Erik Weihenmayer on a late-summer climb of Mount Kilimanjaro,…
More than 100 Mobilians joined the Chamber's annual leadership trip to Baltimore in June 2005, studying the rebounding city's accountability programs, 311 call center and revived Inner Harbor for lessons…
Oyster stands on Government Street, the Lyric Theatre, wartime shipyards running around the clock -- all had a claim. But in the third entry of a series on Mobile's golden…
Asked to name Mobile's golden age, a 76-year-old retired banker names three, then explains how the city that hosted the inventor of the container ship failed to capitalize on it…
A Point Clear lawyer and self-described jackleg historian argues Mobile's golden age belongs to its mystic societies, dating it precisely from the last great New Year's parade in 1881 to…
A collection of e-mails from a Mobile mother to her grown son captures the 2004 election season as it was lived in one Alabama household: gloom, gallows humor, wedding logistics…
Mayor Mike Dow reported zero contributions for all of 2004 and $18.47 in spending. Councilman John Peavy opened a mayoral account that hit six figures in five days, most of…
A published conversation between two Mobile observers weighs whether the downtown convention center has paid for itself, why Government Plaza depresses them, and whether high-speed ferries would ever carry anyone.
Councilman Thomas Sullivan says he followed every city procedure in spending $3,100 in public money on tennis lessons and tournament travel for supporters' children. Four of his colleagues say it…
InnoRx Pharmaceuticals, a Mobile company built around an implant that delivers drugs inside the eye for more than a year, has been acquired by Minnesota-based SurModics in a cash-and-stock deal…