Henry Thornton

Mobile-New Orleans Amtrak service could require 90% taxpayer per-passenger subsidy, warns Mobile City Councilman Joel Daves One of the less-publicized casualties of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 was the termination of passenger rail service on the Gulf Coast east of New Orleans, which included stops in Mobile and Atmore before setting on to its final destination of Jacksonville, Fla. Nearly 16 years later, Amtrak is pushing for the resumption of passenger rail to Alabama’s Gulf Coast.

$800K grant awarded to help ‘Alabama’s sparkling Gulf Coast’ tourism rebound from pandemic The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) on Thursday awarded $800,000 via a CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the Alabama Gulf Coast Convention and Visitors Bureau to develop and implement a tourism recovery marketing campaign in response to the economic downturn that resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic.

What Alabamians need to know about the latest activity on Goat Hill — April 7, 2021 MONTGOMERY — The Alabama Legislature on Tuesday convened for the 19th day of its 2021 regular session. In addition to both chambers convening into the evening hours, there were important committee meetings held earlier in the day. Here’s a rundown of the day’s proceedings: Alabama Senate The upper chamber’s day began with Senate Education Policy meeting at 10:45 a.m. The agenda was led-off by Sen.