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Mayor Sandy Stimpson: Building Alabama's workforce is a call for affordable housing solutions
As Mayor of Mobile, I have witnessed firsthand the challenges Alabama faces in attracting and retaining a strong workforce. Local businesses are eager to expand, and others are interested in locating to Alabama. However, our state’s critical shortage of affordable housing often stands in the way. In the Mobile area alone, 6,362 new jobs are expected to be created over the next five years.
Op-ed — Air Force should open tanker competition
Currently, the U.S. Air Force is wrestling with the decision to press ahead with the planned competition to acquire its next refueling tanker, or continue procuring the KC-46, a refueling tanker that has left our men and women in uniform desperately wanting a more reliable and capable aircraft.
Amtrak bails on impact study in Mobile, doesn't seem to care about killing Alabama jobs - Yellowhammer News
Amtrak bails on impact study in Mobile, doesn’t seem to care about killing Alabama jobs More than $2 billion has recently been invested to grow and enhance the Port of Mobile, which already contributes over 150,000 jobs and $25.4 billion in economic impact as Alabama’s seaport. However, that value — and the Port’s status as one of the nation’s fastest growing seaports — is now in jeopardy.
7 Things: Comprehensive gambling bill dies, Alabama National Guard to help with vaccinations, General Fund budget passes House as Alabama's recovery is going better than most and more … - Yellowhammer News
7 Things: Comprehensive gambling bill dies, Alabama National Guard to help with vaccinations, General Fund budget passes House as Alabama’s recovery is going better than most and more … 7. Increasing issues at the southern border It’s anticipated that numbers from the border that are set to be released by the Biden administration will show a wave of migration at the southern border.
State Rep. Mike Ball: Corruption is a spiritual problem that must be defeated with spiritual weapons - Yellowhammer News
State Rep. Mike Ball: Corruption is a spiritual problem that must be defeated with spiritual weapons During my long-running personal war with corruption, setbacks seem to outnumber victories. Even so, setbacks can serve to humble our heart, open our mind and toughen our skin. When that happens, they become a delivery mechanism for wisdom and discernment, two valuable spiritual commodities that always seem to be in short supply.
Gulf Coast Passenger Rail project could hurt Port of Mobile, Alabama economic development - Yellowhammer News
Gulf Coast Passenger Rail project could hurt Port of Mobile, Alabama economic development MONTGOMERY — A passenger rail service from Mobile to New Orleans sounds nice, and certainly could have benefits for tourism in areas of the Gulf Coast. However, do these positives actually outweigh the costs and other impacts involved?
Securing Mobile’s future
My administration has submitted to the City Council our proposal for the Fiscal Year 2017 budget. As we work diligently to “secure Mobile’s future,” the theme of this year’s budget, we continue to face transformational opportunities that are unparalleled in Mobile’s history and steep challenges not unique to Mobile, but faced by cities across America.
How Alabama Can Benefit from the U.S.-Cuba Relationship
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 Cuba. This 50-year-old isolationist policy is not only infringing on Alabamians’ right to choose with whom they can and can’t do business; it has also negatively impacted the Cuban people. The time has come for Congress to lift the travel and trade embargo with Cuba.
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