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2 | LAGNIAPPE | November 12, 2015 - November 18, 2015 LAGNIAPPE ••••••••••••••••••••••••••• WEEKLY NOVEMBER 12, 2015 – N OVEMBER 18, 2015 | www.lagniappemobile.com Ashley Trice BAY BRIEFS Co-publisher/Editor The city of Orange Beach recently [email protected] unveiled the route of a $28 million Rob Holbert bridge over the Intrastate Canal. Co-publisher/Managing Editor 5 [email protected] COMMENTARY Steve Hall Reviewing two years of Mayor Sandy Marketing/Sales Director [email protected] Stimpson’s new government. Gabriel Tynes 14 Assistant Managing Editor [email protected] BUSINESS Dale Liesch The Dauphin Square shopping Reporter center just east of Interstate 65 is [email protected] getting a million-dollar renovation. 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For Lagniappe home delivery visit www.lagniappemobile.com/lagniappehd 50 Or call Mary Burts at 251-450-4466 November 12, 2015 - November 18, 2015| LAGNIAPPE | 3 GO ING PO STAL POLICE DISPATCH Oil storage ad is misleading Sexual assualt, weapon reported at MHS Regarding the recent advertisement panies have been gone for nearly 20 years, rezone the area around the community BY JASON JOHNSON/REPORTER appearing in Lagniappe, paid for by “Keep the community has had time to breathe gardens from residential to industrial to The Mobile Police Department had to make multiple trips to Mobile Growing,” either they have been freely and don’t want that industrial threat build warehouses, and are currently trying Murphy High School last week after two incidents led to police talking to the wrong Africatown residents hanging over their children’s heads like it to rezone property near Hopewell Baptist intervention and at least one arrest for the time being. or they just don’t get it and continue to did over ours. Church to store and auction off old military On Wednesday, Nov. 4, a sexual assault was reported between believe heavy industry across the street You imply the businesses operated safely vehicles? two male, special-needs students. According to police, both of the from a residential community and school for over 100 years. Well, my father worked Now you want to construct oil stor- students are 15 years old. children constitutes a healthy lifestyle for at IP for over 40 years and I worked there age tanks that could contain more than According to a spokesperson with MPD, police responded to the the Africatown community. for four summers and it was not safe. Why a million barrels of flammable oil at full high school, where the victim reported the assailant “crawling under The group claims its “members have no do you think IP and Scott closed down and capacity. A hundred years ago Africatown intention to expand beyond their current moved? They refused to spend the money residents could not vote and had no voice the bathroom stall and asking if he could perform [a sex act] on the footprint in the designated I-2 industrial necessary to make things safe for the com- in what was built next to our houses, victim. When he refused, the subject proceeded anyway.” zone outside the Africatown historical munity. schools, churches and children. Now we According to police, the boy was charged with first-degree sod- district where they have operated safely for Watching ash fall from the sky like do, and that voice says “no.” NO MORE omy and transported to the Strickland Youth Center, but his name over 100 years.” snow in July is not safe or healthy for TANKS ON OUR BANKS! has not been released and likely will not be. Well, first of all, you assume the resi- anyone. You say you don’t have any inten- Joe Womack In an unrelated incident the following day, police responded to dents want you there. They don’t. Now that tion to expand beyond the designated I-2 Mobile reports of a possible student having a gun near the campus of Mur- International Paper and Scott Paper Com- industrial zone. Well, why did you try to phy High School. The student was never identified, and police are still unsure of the identity. Insurance reform sounds like Obamacare Police stated they believe it was a student, but don’t know who I enjoyed, and then was mildly shocked from 1988 until 2006. Currently, I and billion standard required. the student was. However, the school system hasn’t been able to by, the article “More details revealed some other investors are working to start a In the past, AIUA has reported that it confirm that a gun was ever on campus on Thursday. in homeowner insurance reform plans” new insurance company. uses a “band reinsurance” program to “lay- “We did not see a gun, and we’ve not had reports of anyone with (Lagniappe, Nov. 5). Assuming that the monetary figures off risk.” Band reinsurance is the cheapest a gun on our campus,” Rena Philips, a school spokeswoman, said. What shocked me was the obviously quoted in the article are correct, it appears type of reinsurance and I believe that it “A neighbor called the police and said they saw somebody possibly “pristine ignorance” displayed by the that the AIUA is currently insolvent. The cannot come close to making the AIUA with a gun near campus.” Coastal Insurance Working Group, the current basic standard for risk versus capi- solvent in case of a Katrina-type claim, Despite those comments, police say the call they received came Alabama Insurance Underwriters As- tal and surplus is 3 or 4 to 1. This means which exceeded $41 billion for more than from Murphy High School’s own resource office, who identified the sociation and the Alabama Department of that if a company has $1 million in capital 1.7 million claims across six states. suspect as a student at the time. Insurance regarding the basic principles of and surplus, the company can write $3 The fundamental problem with the So far no arrests have been made, but following the report of the insurance and their obvious distrust of for- million to $4 million in business. CIWG, the AIUA and the ALDOI is that gun being seen, police responded to the scene with a K-9 unit to profit insurance companies in the coastal The article indicates AIUA has $87.5 under their proposals/options, insurance search the school and its surrounding areas. property insurance market, in favor of a million in capital and surplus but is writing ceases to be insurance, and becomes On Tuesday, Nov. 10, a spokesperson with the MPD said no quasi-governmental, nonprofit insurance $5.6 billion in total insured value; $5.6 bil- something else, namely a very badly “significant event report” was ever filed on the matter, and so far, company/entity. lion in business suggests an approximate constructed cost-sharing program akin to “nothing has resulted” from the incident. My own background is as a licensed $1.9 billion in capital and surplus. I do Obamacare. Despite both brushes with the law, Philips said safety remains a life and property/casualty insurance agent realize that some of the risk is “laid-off” Bob Walsh top priority at Murphy and at all Mobile County Public schools.