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• Big endorsement boosts Katie Britt in Bama Senate race

  By Quin Hillyer / 9 May 2022

  

  (May 4) MOBILE, Alabama — Political endorsements often don’t matter much in swaying voters’ decisions, but Senate candidate Katie Britt on May 3 secured an affirmation that could prove unusually […]

   

• Two stories against obsessing about race

  By Quin Hillyer / 29 August 2021

  

  Sandy Stimpson, re-elected as mayor, helps Mobile transcend race (Aug. 26):  MOBILE, Alabama — For the fifth straight mayoral election in this port city, Mobilians on Aug. 24 showed that […]

   

• Good news — and good memories, for kicks

  By Quin Hillyer / 20 April 2020

  

  When the late kicker Tom Dempsey caused a buzz (April 6): It’s difficult to overstate the importance of former NFL kicker Tom Dempsey, who died April 4 of the coronavirus, […]

   

• Donate to Prichard Prep School!

  By Quin Hillyer / 11 December 2017

  

  Note from Quin: More than five years ago, I was impressed enough by a visit to a local Pre-K-thru-5th Grade school, Prichard Preparatory School, that I was moved to write a […]

   

• Telling D.C. what Mobile Mayor Stimpson does right

  By Quin Hillyer / 28 August 2017

  

  By Quin Hillyer at The Washington Examiner; As the rest of the country fights ever more loudly over statues, race, history, presidential deportment, and just about anything else, the city […]

   

• Sandy Stimpson merits four more years

  By Quin Hillyer / 21 August 2017

  

  Note from Quin: Two months ago, I did a news analysis on the race for mayor in Mobile. In it, I compiled a lot of statistics showing the superb job […]

   

• Stats show Stimpson moves Mobile forward

  By Quin Hillyer / 29 June 2017

  

  By Quin Hillyer at Yellowhammer News;   The rest of Alabama may want to watch to the race for mayor in Mobile, where fiscally responsible reformer Sandy Stimpson is trying […]

   

• In Memory of Christopher Thomas, Please Donate

  By Quin Hillyer / 3 December 2014

  

  Christopher Thomas, who died of respiratory failure last spring, was one of the most impressive young men I’ve met in a long, long time. He was president of the College […]

   

• Mobile Council Backstabs City… but now, let’s find a solution

  By Quin Hillyer / 25 September 2014

  

  Mobile residents should have been fuming two days ago when the City Council reversed its earlier promises and overrode Mayor Sandy Stimpson’s veto of an extension of the city’s “extra […]

   

• Victory!!! (?) (Sales Tax to be Reversed!)

  By Quin Hillyer / 19 September 2014

  

  The public spoke, and the Mobile City Council apparently has listened. Now even Councilman Fred Richardson, a longtime, straightforward advocate of a permanent extension of Mobile’s “extra penny” sales tax […]