Deepwater Horizon Claims Administrator Patrick Juneau planned a Mobile press conference to update officials on the settlement process, reporting thousands of claims filed and millions in determination letters.
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Is Mobile Business-Friendly? Developers Answered, on Condition of Anonymity
Promised anonymity, Mobile developers and executives delivered a blunt 2008 verdict on the city’s permitting, its economic development effort and its habit of favoring public projects over private capital.
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Royal Street Goes Both Ways Again as Downtown Mobile Undoes Decades of One-Way Traffic
Mobile moved in late 2006 to restore two-way traffic on Royal Street and blocks of Dauphin and St. Francis, an $800,000 project tied to the Battle House Hotel and the RSA Tower.
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Cotton, Shipyards and Brookley: One Mobilian’s Blunt Accounting of the City’s Fortunes
Mark Berson placed Mobile’s golden age between 1830 and 1860, traced its long decline through the loss of Brookley Field, and argued in 2005 that the city was poised to grow again.
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Is Mobile’s Golden Age Right Now? A Realtor Makes the Case for the Present Tense
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 age, one Mobilian argues the best chapter is the one being written now.
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Mobile’s Golden Age: A Retired Banker Traces the City’s Rise, Its Missed Container Revolution and Its Long Plateau
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 while Charleston and Savannah did.
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Riley and Bronner Pressed Dow to Run Again, but Mobile’s Mayor Appeared Unmoved
Gov. Bob Riley and retirement systems chief David Bronner urged Mobile Mayor Mike Dow to seek re-election at a meeting shortly before Christmas 2004, but his backers conceded he was unlikely to be dissuaded.