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Cruises are coming back to Mobile, Avelo Airlines will start flying out of downtown later this month and Amtrak plans to restore passenger train service this fall. All the while, area hotels are benefiting from marketing paid for by a fee charged to guests.
"10Best" voting included some heavyweight competitors
As of Friday, Mobile was in the top spot in the poll with one week left to vote.
Fifteen states since 2021, have either enacted measures to implement or expand film tax incentives. Alabama has not touched its film tax credit since 2014, and there are no plans to do so this year despite support for an increase from local film offices.
Alabama Public Radio has been spotlighting the history of the slave ship Clotilda all throughout February for Black History Month. Africatown in the Plateau community in Mobile was established by some of the one hundred and twenty two kidnapped Africans brought over aboard the Clotilda in 1860. There’s now a new effort to use old traditions to tell the story of the last slave ship to come to America.