Tossing Mullet

May 06 2008 – "Water, Water, Everywhere, Nor Any Drop to Drink!" Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" in 1798 and the theme obviously deals with the threat of drinking salt water, which has dire consequences to our delicate systems, but the phrase has evolved to represent a number of contradictions where there’s a lot of something that we can’t figure out how to use it – even energy.

Apr 22 2008 – The challenge to the Northrop-Grumman/EADS tanker deal has dominated Mobile chit-chat for the better part of a month, but it has barely dented the communal euphoria as the "city of perpetual potential" emerges from the dark ages of post-WW II.

Apr 08 2008 – No Sewer? There is a raging debate in south Mobile County over the rebuilding of the Bayou La Batre sewer plant ravaged by time, mismanagement, and finally Hurricane Katrina.

Mar 25 2008 – It’s not that we have lost a passion for nature and the environment – it’s the simple fact that we have so seriously altered our modes of interaction.

Mar 11 2008 – Harvey Jackson is a professor of history at Jacksonville State University up "north" who recently wrote (Jan.

Feb 25 2008 – There was a workshop recently in the Panhandle held by NOAA’s (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) office for coastal research, which was intended to scavenge the brainpower of the Mississippi-Alabama-Panhandle region concerning research needs relative to sea level rise.

Feb 12 2008 – Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know it was cold last week and it’s likely to get cold next week – maybe even colder.

Jan 28 2008 – After 25 years with the Daupin Island Sea Lab, Dr. George Crozier joins Lagniappe as a columnist. In his first effort, he tackles the muddy problem the Highway 98 construction has caused.