Foley’s Retail Boom Continues With Moe’s BBQ Opening
Foley's retail growth along Highway 59 continues with a new Moe's Original BBQ location, part of a wave of openings in the Baldwin County city.
As Air Force Tanker Bids Come Due, Focus Turns to U.S. Jobs Tied to Mobile Project
With the deadline for final bids on the Air Force’s multibillion-dollar aerial refueling tanker contract arriving, much of the public debate around the competition has centered on a familiar question…
‘Blackmail’ and ‘French Workers’: A Kansas Congressman Escalates the Tanker War
As Mobile fumed over one senator's slight, a Kansas congressman kept up his own campaign against the Airbus-built tanker, accusing supporters of the aircraft of blackmailing the Air Force.
Shelby Votes No on Bernanke, Faulting the Fed for the Bubble It Failed to See
Alabama's senior senator broke with the Federal Reserve chairman he once supported, arguing that Ben Bernanke helped inflate the housing bubble that wrecked Gulf Coast home values and bank balance…
‘I Accept the Challenge’: Mobile Answers a Senator Who Said Alabama Builds Nothing
A Washington senator told NPR she had never seen anyone in Alabama build anything. Mobile's mayor, a county commissioner and a candidate for governor lined up to correct her, and…
Sessions Takes the Senate Floor to Defend Alabama Workers and the Mobile Tanker Bid
U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions used a Senate floor speech to answer a colleague's slight against Alabama workers and to argue that the Pentagon had rewritten the aerial tanker bid rules…
Will Delta’s Simplified Fares Finally Reach Mobile? The Airport’s Marketing Chief Explains
After Delta announced it would take its simplified-fare experiment nationwide in January 2005, Mobile Airport Authority marketing chief Marc Pelham explained what cheaper tickets would mean for local travelers.
Interest-Only Mortgages and the Baldwin County Boom: A Quiet Argument Over Risk
In December 2004, a private exchange among South Alabama professionals turned into a pointed debate: were interest-only mortgages fueling Baldwin County's housing boom, and what happens if prices stop rising?