Mobile and Baldwin County News
Coverage of public finance from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
Clarke County Revenue Commissioner Tyler Montana Prescott of Thomasville has been elected first vice president of a national association representing county tax and finance officials.
Mayor Sandy Stimpson's proposed city budget includes employee raises and millions in capital funding spread across Mobile's seven council districts.
A Prichard councilwoman's push to require regular independent CPA reviews of the city budget fell short of the votes needed to pass this week.
A Prichard City Council member blocked introduction of the city's budget, saying the revenue projections need review by an outside accountant.
Facing an $18.5 million shortfall, Mobile officials weighed pay cuts, a sales tax increase, a garbage collection fee and layoffs. Each carried a political price nobody wanted to pay.
As Alabama's largest county lurched toward what would be the biggest public bankruptcy in U.S. history, financial professionals warned that bond insurers had begun blacklisting the entire state, Mobile included.
Don Langham said he would run for Mobile County treasurer as a Democrat unless party officials allowed a troubled congressional candidate to qualify, a caveat that revealed the party's anxieties.
The chairman of the Mobile County Democratic Party announced a run for county treasurer on a pledge to shut the office down within two years, calling the post an expensive…
Mobile County tapped Matt McDonald and Brian Cash of Miller Hamilton to handle a $70 million bond issue tied to incentives for the $3.7 billion ThyssenKrupp steel plant in north…