Mobile Council approves $80M bond for museum.

According to the Mobile Press Register, The Mobile City Council voted 6-1 this morning to take out more than $80 million in bonds to refinance old debt and help pay for the construction of GulfQuest, an interactive maritime museum on the downtown waterfront. What no petition drive?

Pensacola has Marty Donovan and Charlie Fairchild. Mobile does not. Do you think Mobile would be interested in a trade? We’ll take Mike Dow, their former strong mayor, and give them Donovan and Fairchild.

What Pensacola makes hard, others do so much easier.

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Author: Rick Outzen

Rick Outzen is the publisher/owner of Pensacola Inweekly. He has been profiled in The New York Times and featured in several True Crime documentaries. Rick also is the author of the award-winning Walker Holmes thrillers. His latest nonfiction book is “Right Idea, Right Time: The Fight for Pensacola’s Maritime Park.”