Federal stimulus dollars are set to resurface Springhill Avenue from I-65 to Municipal Park. A councilwoman wants to add median landscaping and turn the stretch into a proper entrance to Mobile’s cultural core.
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Coverage of public works from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
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Pipes Too Small, a $650,000 Overrun, and a Name City Hall Recognized
An engineering firm designed a Dauphin Street drainage project for 66-inch pipes when 72-inch pipes were needed. The error cost Mobile $650,000, and the firm’s principal had given to the mayor’s campaign.
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130 Boxes and a Termite Problem: A Mobile Political Life Went to the Archives
Former City Commissioner Lambert Mims donated more than 130 boxes of papers, photographs and reel-to-reel tapes to the University of South Alabama, documenting a quarter century in Mobile politics.
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Halfway Through the Year, Mobile’s Books Tell a Post-Katrina Story
A walk through Mobile’s mid-year financial report for fiscal 2006-07 found revenue down 6.8 percent, hotel taxes collapsing against a Katrina-inflated year, and a transit subsidy running 121 percent over budget.
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Rich Proposes Performance-Tracking Software to Trim Mobile’s Costs
Mobile mayoral candidate Bess Rich proposed adopting CitiStat, a performance-management program pioneered in Baltimore, to track city spending and save money.
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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.