Commentary

The Real Deal

  • Byrne Stomps Competition in Straw Poll

    March 09, 2010

    Local candidate for Governor, Bradley Byrne, decisively won a Republican primary straw poll of the Business Leaders of Mobile and Baldwin Counties.

  • Tommy Fulton on Living Large

    February 23, 2010

    Thanks so much for all of your kind comments and words of encouragement after my first couple of Lagniappe columns.

  • Mike Dow’s Business Interests

    February 09, 2010

    Former Mobile Mayor Mike Dow is back in the briar patch — as in Br’er Rabbit and the briar patch. …

  • Indictments, Banking Woes and Mobile’s Top 40 Under 40

    January 26, 2010

    Thanks for picking up Lagniappe and for glancing at this column. …

  • Davidson Is Dallas-bound

    January 12, 2010

    While most economic news these days is about unemployment and outsourced jobs, Mobile’s need for a sophisticated and highly trained workforce is becoming more severe each year. …

  • Hanging Together at the Port of Chickasaw

    December 29, 2009

    With the cruise terminal and all the other activity around the downtown area, it is possible to forget about another industrial hub, the port of Chickasaw. …

  • Put Your State on Your Plate

    December 14, 2009

    I’ve been thinking about food lately. …

  • At Least We Still Make Dinner

    November 30, 2009

    I thought I would take a point of personal privilege and share my opinion with you about the cause of our nation’s current economic troubles. …

  • A Journey to the Center of the Earth 

    November 17, 2009

    One of my favorite tales as a child was Jules Verne’s “Journey to the Center of the Earth,” a classic adventure story about a German professor and his volcanic trip from one end of the planet to the other. …

  • The Early Christmas Club 

    November 03, 2009

    Bel Air Mall could be considered Mobile’s very own Christmas central (well, that might be the various churches, but you get the picture). …