The Alabama State Port Authority collected the top engineering honor from the American Association of Port Authorities for the technology deployed at the Port of Mobile’s Pinto Terminal.
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Local News
Connie Hudson to Announce Bid for Mobile County Commission District 2
Mobile City Councilwoman Connie Hudson prepared to formally launch her campaign for the vacant District 2 seat on the Mobile County Commission, joining a Republican field forming quickly ahead of the July 13 special election.
Baldwin County
Byrne Brings His Jobs Plan to Brookley as the Governor’s Race Comes to Mobile
Bradley Byrne chose Brookley Field to unveil his economic plan on the first working day of 2010, while rival Bill Johnson addressed the Mobile County Republican Executive Committee the same evening.
Local News
‘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 to defend the tanker bid.
Calvert
Port Director Jimmy Lyons Briefed Sunrise Rotary as Mobile’s Docks Boomed
Alabama State Port Authority chief Jimmy Lyons addressed the Sunrise Rotary Club of Mobile in February 2009, with a $100 million Pinto Island terminal under way to serve the ThyssenKrupp steel mill.
Calvert
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. His answer: don’t count on it.
Baldwin County
A Warning Beneath the Cheering: Scientists Questioned the Cost of Mobile’s Growth
As Mobile celebrated steel plants and tanker contracts in 2008, retired Dauphin Island Sea Lab director George Crozier warned that unmanaged growth could undo 40 years of hard-won water quality gains.
Calvert
Boom, Boom, Boom: Mobile Counted Its Winnings in the Summer of 2008
Steel at Calvert, tankers at Brookley, a new container terminal and a downtown tower: in mid-2008, Mobile leaders argued the long-promised boom had finally arrived, while cautioning it was not yet in hand.
Calvert
One City Along I-65? North Mobile County Weighed a Merger It Knew Would Never Happen
With a steel plant rising at Calvert and a new school system drawing families to Saraland, developers and officials debated dissolving Chickasaw, Satsuma and Creola into a single north Mobile County city.
Local News
Mobile’s Four-Term Mayor Ruled Out the School Board, and Left the Door Open on Governor
Former Mayor Mike Dow said his wife would tolerate only one more campaign, and it would not be for the school board. In a long reply, he laid out his views on candidate recruitment and Mobile’s ‘new politics.’