A Deer Hunt With His Son Ended Jo Bonner’s 2010 Run for Governor
The Mobile congressman was all in on a campaign for governor in mid-December. Two weeks later, on a hunting trip with his 10-year-old son, he changed his mind and never…
A Mobile Businessman’s Book Reopened a Long Fight Over a Family Trucking Company
Tommy Fulton scheduled a signing in Magnolia Springs for 'An Act of Congress,' his account of the succession battle that put his family's Finch Companies in court against a future…
Congressman Jo Bonner Picks Up New Appropriations Posts in 111th Congress
WASHINGTON — Less than a year after joining the powerful House Appropriations Committee, U.S. Rep. Jo Bonner, R-Mobile, is moving up the ladder. At the same time, Rep. Artur Davis,…
A Steel Plant, a Shipyard and a Tanker: Would Unions Come Back to South Alabama?
With ThyssenKrupp rising near Calvert, Austal expanding downtown and aircraft work possible at Brookley, a veteran labor lawyer was asked whether organized labor would ride the boom back into Mobile.…
A Who’s Who of Mobile Lined Up Behind Sam Jones — Including Two Men and Women He Beat
Nearly 150 hosts, at $1,000 a couple, signed on to a December reception for Mobile Mayor Sam Jones — among them Ann Bedsole and John Peavy, two rivals from the…
Bubba, Mayer, Mr. Mitchell: Friends Recall a Mobile Life of Outsized Reach
Friends and colleagues remembered Mayer 'Bubba' Mitchell, the Mobile developer and philanthropist who died at 74, as a man whose influence ran from Leinkauf School to the White House.
Pro-Annexation PAC Raised More Than $81,000 as West Mobile Vote Neared
The Mobile Area Citizens Political Action Committee blew past its $75,000 goal, reporting $81,575 in contributions as the city campaigned for its west Mobile annexation vote like a political race.
Edwards, Gore and a Border Fence: Mobile Democrats and Republicans Size Up 2008
A second round of Mobile-area figures weighed the 2008 field, from a license commissioner drawn to John Edwards and Joe Biden to a trio of Republicans backing California congressman Duncan…
Lions Club to Roast a Retired Congressman in Mobile
The Mobile Lions Club scheduled its third annual celebrity roast for April 20, 2006, with retired U.S. Rep. H.L. 'Sonny' Callahan as the guest of honor and a lineup of…
How Mike Dow Gambled on the Mayor’s Office in 1989 – and Changed Mobile’s Course
Nearly two decades later, former Mayor Mike Dow and the friends and rivals who shaped his first campaign recalled the audacious 1989 decision to bypass a council seat and run…