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Originally Posted by BlessedMobile
This is something that I know a little about. Prichard has maybe 25K residents now most of whom live east of I-65. Both Ron Davis and Earline Martin-Harris really want to solve the money shortfalls but they do come at it from different perspectives. Earline is "mostly facts and some faith" while Ron is "mostly faith and some facts"....you can see the dilemma. I don't think that today's political climate would understand the reasoning why Prichard should become part of Mobile but it will likely happen at some point because it will be a win/win for both. Taking in Prichard would enlarge our city "land area" by 22% or 26 square miles. The Prichard we know today will not grow in the area west of I-65 but Mobile management will foster tremendous growth after taking over the whole 26 square miles. This is "the expansion area" Mobile needs to extend west. FYI, Prichard has failed to adequately monitor enough federal grants that they won't be getting any more big ones for a long time; Mobile, on the other hand, can get many, many millions to fix up the infrastructure of Prichard once Mobile takes over. Another point, people who move from Prichard are coming to Mobile. All this to say....Prichard should vote to seek inclusion into Mobile and we should welcome them.
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Im glad that you mentioned that I can only seee this as a positive for the both as well.....I thought prichard had 28,000 ? Adding prichard would make it Mobile the largest city in the state right ?
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