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.
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Tennis Anyone? Mobile Councilman’s $3,100 in Taxpayer-Funded Lessons Draws Colleagues’ Rebuke
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 was flatly improper.
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Mobile Eye-Drug Startup InnoRx Sold to SurModics in $38.7 Million Deal
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 valued at $38.7 million.
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Councilman Predicts No Racial Backlash From Mobile’s 2005 Mayoral Race
With Mayor Mike Dow expected to step aside, Councilman Fred Richardson said Mobile’s history suggests voters will accept the outcome of the August mayoral election without racial discord, whoever wins.
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Political Chatter in Mobile: Who’s Running, Who Isn’t, and What the Mayor’s Job Is Really Worth
A shipping executive says no, a police chief eyes the sheriff’s office, a businessman mulls a council run, Republicans pick a new county chairman, and Mobile’s mayor earns less than the man who books the Senior Bowl.
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Lessons From a Hospital Bed: How a Mobile Stockbroker Learned to Stop Chasing the Last Dollar
The concluding installment of a Mobile memoir: a foul-mouthed doctor diagnoses a pulmonary embolism, a broker survives, and a man decides that a million-dollar year is not what he will be remembered for.
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The Bottom Came in December: A Mobile Broker on the 1974 Crash, Recovery, and a Diagnosis He Did Not Expect
In the gloom of late 1974 a Mobile stockbroker drew up two models of the future and labeled them Doom and Boom. The market gave him his answer on December 6. Then his doctor gave him another.
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Six Broadcasts a Day: A Mobile Broker’s Life on the Radio and in the 1974 Bear Market
A longtime Mobile stockbroker recalls the years he read market reports over WLPR, the punishing bear market of 1974, and the new options game that helped keep his family afloat.
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A Brilliant Surrender: The Provocative Case for Dissolving Mobile and Starting Over
With Mobile slipping to third-largest city in Alabama and annexation stalled, a satirical dialogue floats a radical fix: abolish the city entirely, fold it into the county and build metro government from scratch.
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Newcomer Outraises Veteran 10 to 1 in the Special Election for Mobile’s District 7 Council Seat
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 Nodine.