News

  • City Must Trim Budget by Over $10 Million in Five Months

    March 17, 2010

    City administrators can expect to occupy the time between now and May 1 looking for several ways to balance the 2010 fiscal year’s budget shortfall, Mayor Sam Jones announced this morning. …

  • Thomas to Appeal Before End of the Day

    March 12, 2010

    Former circuit court judge and current state senate hopeful Herman Thomas will appeal the double disbarment handed down from the Alabama Bar Association in a disciplinary hearing late last month, according to his attorney Bob Clark. …

  • Brown Grease Battle on Hold Until September

    March 12, 2010

    The battle between Roto Rooter and MAWSS over the right to dispose of Mobile’s brown grease will have to wait until Sept. …

  • Davis Outlines Economic Plan for Alabama

    March 11, 2010

    With Austal’s USS Independence serving as a floating backdrop and proof of Mobile’s past fortune in attracting internationally diverse, high-tech economic development projects, gubernatorial candidate and U. …

  • Will Thomas Appeal Disbarment?

    March 10, 2010

    Two concurrent disbarments handed down to former Circuit Court Judge Herman Thomas last month could become final at the end of this week if Thomas chooses not to appeal the decision, according to Tony McLain who serves as general counsel for the Alabama State Bar.

  • A Day in the Life of a Local Critter Getter: Michael Neimeyer Takes Lagniappe Along for the Ride

    March 09, 2010

    If there’s something strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call?

  • City Looks to Revamp Street Resurfacing Plan

    March 09, 2010

    Members of the Mobile City Council and representatives of the city’s engineering department are attempting to collaborate in formulating a plan that would maximize efficiency and create priorities in resurfacing the city’s streets, but politics and needs assessments seem to be clashing as the process advances. …

  • Tim James Gets Down to Business

    March 08, 2010

    Sitting with Tim James, there’s a sense that if he is elected governor, a certain bluntness might be part of what he brings to Montgomery — nothing rude, mind you, but blunt nonetheless. …

  • The Fight Over Brown Grease

    March 08, 2010

    The Mobile Area Water and Sewer System’s mission to keep Mobile ungreasy has gotten considerably less easy in the past few weeks. …

  • Feds Say Herman Thomas Case ‘Open’

    March 08, 2010

    Despite District Attorney John Tyson’s recent disclosure that he was told by the local U. …