Mobile and Baldwin County News
Every statewide constitutional amendment Alabama voters faced in November 2018 won approval, most by solid margins. Several carry lasting consequences for how state government works. Amendment 1: Ten Commandments Displays…
The phrase 'double-dipping' echoed through Alabama politics, but a survey of legislators, educators and attorneys found no agreement on what it actually meant, or whether it was a problem at…
South Alabama legislators warned that Gov. Bentley's proposed special session on Jefferson County's debt was dead on arrival unless it also addressed the coastal homeowners insurance crisis.
The National Federation of Independent Business backed a bipartisan slate of state legislative candidates ahead of the November election, including a roster of incumbent lawmakers from Mobile and Baldwin counties.
A towing company owner and a school board member joined the scramble for the vacant District 2 seat, bringing the Republican field to six, with a party-sponsored candidate forum set…
Republican candidate for governor Tim James was the beneficiary of an October 2009 reception in Mobile's Delwood neighborhood, with former U.S. Rep. Sonny Callahan among the special guests.
State Rep. Jamie Ison, R-Mobile, prepared to launch her campaign for a third term in House District 101 with a July 14 reception in Spring Hill backed by a host…
Asked to name the political hero who shaped them, area officeholders past and present answered with presidents and prime ministers - and, more often than expected, with their own mothers…
State Sen. Rusty Glover's $250 contribution to a Republican challenging an incumbent county commissioner needed explaining. He said it was simply reciprocity, and that he stays out of GOP primaries.
Coastal legislators were asked which colleagues outside their own delegations deserved to be called statesmen. The answers, from Republicans and Democrats alike, revealed who commanded respect in Montgomery.