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State Rep. Drummond hosts Reddit AMA to discuss Mobile mayoral candidacy, platform

State Rep. Barbara Dru.mmond outlines bold vision for Mobile in Reddit AMA, pledging aggressive job creation, neighborhood revitalization, and stronger community policing
July 8, 2025

Alabama mayors discuss surviving COVID-19 in Business Council of Alabama’s online conference

Alabama businesses have suffered during the COVID-19 pandemic, but they’ve also found ways to innovate and to drive the needed changes to keep their employees and customers safe, said the mayors of Alabama’s five largest cities.  The Business Council of Alabama’s Engage Alabama virtual business conferences kicked off Wednesday with a discussion of how the … Continued
August 26, 2020

Byrne Applauds Major Transportation Grant Awarded to Mobile

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Tuesday, July 26, US Representative Bradley Byrne today celebrated news that the City of Mobile will receive a $14,465,044 TIGER discretionary grant from the Federal Department of Transportation for the “One Mobile” project, which will reconstruct Broad and Beauregard Streets. Congressman Byrne said, “I am so pleased to report … Continued
July 27, 2016

Public Officials Join Launch of Engage Cuba Alabama State Council

By Bill Britt Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY—Engage Cuba, the leading advocacy organization working to end the travel and trade embargo on Cuba, will join State leaders at the container facility at the Port Authority State Docks in Mobile, to launch the Engage Cuba Alabama State Council, later today. A network of agriculture, business, technology, manufacturing, … Continued
June 28, 2016

How Alabama Can Benefit from the U.S./Cuba Relationship 


By Mayor Sandy Stimpson, Senator Vivian Davis Figures, Senator Jabo Waggoner and Commissioner John McMillan Despite the fact that the Port of Mobile is located just across the Gulf of Mexico, Alabama businesses will continue to lose out on Cuba’s growing markets to foreign competitors until Congress ends the U.S. travel and trade embargo on … Continued
June 21, 2016

Handicapping the Governor’s Race (Continued)

INSIDE THE STATEHOUSE by Steve Flowers This week we will continue counting down and handicapping the prospective horses in the 2018 Alabama Gubernatorial Derby. We handicapped the following horses in descending order last week, Speaker of the House Mike Hubbard (18), Supreme Court Justice Jim Main (17), Sen. Greg Reed (16), Sen. Arthur Orr (15) … Continued
December 2, 2015

Carnival Cruise Lines ‘Fantasy’ will Operate From Mobile by November 2016

  By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Wednesday, September 23, 2015 Carnival Cruise Lines and the City of Mobile are officially back in business together.  Mobile will be a port of origin for the cruise ship, ‘Fantasy’ starting in November of 2016. Alabama Governor Robert Bentley (R) released a statement on the announcement that Carnival … Continued
September 24, 2015