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Father Arrested for September Murder of Hiawayi Robinson 2 | LAGNIAPPE | December 25, 2014 - December 31, 2014 LAGNIAPPE ••••••••••••••••••••••••••• WEEKLY December 25, 2014 – December 31, 2014 | www.lagniappemobile.com Ashley Trice BAY BRIEFS Co-publisher/Editor Mobile County Commission President [email protected] Connie Hudson is exploring an increase in Rob Holbert lodging tax. Co-publisher/Managing Editor 6 [email protected] Steve Hall COMMENTARY Marketing/Sales Director It’s time to quit dissing the police. [email protected] Gabriel Tynes Assistant Managing Editor 12 [email protected] Dale Liesch BUSINESS Reporter Bienville Business Center opens. 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Removal of more than one copy 44 from these points constitutes theft. Violators are subject to prosecution. Help support Lagniappe Weekly by SPORTS becoming a “Friend with Benefits.” Scan this code for more info: Special gifts for sports fans with empty 46 stockings. STYLE 48 A Boozie review of the year’s gossip. LAGNIAPPE | December 25, 2014 - December 31, 2014 | 3 GOING POSTAL Personnel board changes encourage inequality Fund projects focusing on economic and environmental health as a whole Politicians and the media’s constant portrayal of black people as helpless, defenseless, victims At a public meeting in Spanish Fort Wednesday, Dec. 17, the Alabama Gulf Coast Recovery of circumstance is appalling. We do not need your perpetual supervision as a reminder of the Council announced it will direct the first round of oil spill penalties under its control toward eco- trauma imposed upon our wretched souls by the government, brutal police forces and a biased nomic and infrastructure projects, using RESTORE Act money from the fines paid by Transocean judicial system. — a cash amount that will reach $56 million by March 2015. Your need for self-gratification and self-substantiation has made us hopelessly dependent upon Jimmy Lyons, director for the Alabama State Port Authority and vice chair of the state council, the very institutions you condemn for causing our plight. Your constant badgering has convinced said the decision to put the first round of funding toward economic projects was based, at least in everyone including ourselves that we are unable to compete without preferential treatment, an part, on the majority support already expressed for ecological projects. But, further research into advantage or outright favoritism. how much money has been poured into economic endeavors reveals quite the opposite of the state Any changes to the personnel board application process to create diversity in city employment council’s assertions. are an insult to every black person who applies because it implies we cannot compete on equitable According to BP, over $2 billion has been paid to Alabama in claims, advances, settlements terms. What is wrong with you? and other payments — the majority of which has gone to fund various economic projects, such as You are representing us as juvenile and feeble children who most constantly hold an adult’s business and government claims, tourism promotion and seafood testing. To date only $52 million hand so we do not wander in to the street. During a recent “race relations” conference, Mayor has been spent on ecological restoration in Alabama, which includes living shoreline, watershed Stimpson suggested changing business license application requirements to stimulate minority busi- planning and fisheries data collection projects. ness ownership — again suggesting we must have an advantage — and you reiterate that insult to Ocean Conservancy would like to encourage the council to reconsider their position and fund all black people’s ingenuity, creativity, character and determination. projects that achieve a triple bottom line of a strong economy, healthy environment and safe com- When the terms “fairness” and “equality” are used, it means a fair and equal opportunity to munities. It’s short-sighted of the council to solely focus on projects with an economic or infra- succeed or fail and regardless of the outcome of our endeavor. We are allowed to attempt them with structure benefit. There is a finite amount of money available and an infinite amount of projects to the dignity that can only be derived from self-determination and independence. be funded. Therefore, the council should focus this funding on projects with multiple benefits to the Attaining an education, choosing an honest career, working hard and persistence were once the Alabama Gulf Coast. tenets of American families but have been replaced with handouts, favoritism and excuses which It is also important to remember the RESTORE Act was passed through Congress in the wake of are perpetuated by public “leaders” and media driven by sensationalism. Perhaps city departments the largest environmental disaster in the United States. If nothing else, the BP oil disaster taught us lack the desired diversity because of unqualified applicants or perhaps young educated people that Alabama’s economic stability and environmental health are intrinsically linked. Let’s hope we do not want low paying municipal jobs. You are not talking about the cause, only what you have don’t have to be taught this lesson again for it to hit home. decided is the solution. A diverse workforce cannot be created through legislation or a dumbed down hiring process. Kara Lankford, Adequate public education creates intelligent individuals from which an employer may choose the Interim Director, Ocean Conservancy Gulf Restoration Program most qualified candidate whose desire is to work for a municipality and not through fear or intimi- dation, malice or ill will. John C. Young, Mobile P OLICE DISPATCH BY JASON JOHNSON/REPORTER | [email protected] Two arrested for capital murder following Foley house fire Police still searching for Chickasaw man The investigation into a Dec. 14 house fire in Foley quickly escalated after police began to Timothy Javon Williams of Chickasaw was last seen Dec. 16 in the Gulf Village community of suspect arson. Inside the home authorities found the body of the home’s owner, 70-year-old Thomas Prichard, where he was allegedly dropped off by his cousin Dewon Dewayne Jenkins. Burdette. Authorities have been searching for Williams since his disappearance was reported and have On Dec. 19, Foley police arrested two in connection with the fire, which authorities say began unsuccessfully attempted to speak with Jenkins about the incident. Police initially said they do not as a burglary but escalated into a murder. According to the Baldwin County Correction Center’s suspect Jenkins of any foul play in connection with Williams’ disappearance but Monday, Prichard online records, Brandon Bledsoe, 33, of Elberta and Heather Raftery, 21, of Foley were arrested and officials said foul play couldn’t be ruled out.
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