There's still no swimsuit competition
Mobile hosted its final America's Junior Miss pageant Saturday night, ending almost 50 years as the event's home. But fear not, AJM aficionados: The pageant may reincarnate in Tennessee.
Financial problems led organizers to vote last month to cease operations after this year. Those pecuniary woes also had left city and county governments picking up a larger-than-usual share of the tab for the event in recent years. Despite that, a recent Mobile Register poll of Mobile County residents found that 48 percent of respondents were willing to spend even more public money to keep the pageant in town.
Imagine if increased education funding polled so well in Alabama.
Financial problems led organizers to vote last month to cease operations after this year. Those pecuniary woes also had left city and county governments picking up a larger-than-usual share of the tab for the event in recent years. Despite that, a recent Mobile Register poll of Mobile County residents found that 48 percent of respondents were willing to spend even more public money to keep the pageant in town.
Imagine if increased education funding polled so well in Alabama.
posted by Alabamian at 5:25 PM
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