Cary Estes
Drilling for Liquid Gold. Water, That Is.
Tragedy struck suddenly from the sky in Tuscaloosa on April 27, 2011, when an EF-4 tornado ripped through the town with...
Pie Lab’s Community Chemistry
They are enjoying the life of pie in the tiny west Alabama town of Greensboro — apple, blueberry, key lime, ...
Manufacturing Champions Out of Alabama
Markus Schaefer sits in a conference room at the Mercedes-Benz manufacturing plant in Vance and reflects on two years of amazing success. The...
Hot Socks vs. Cheap Threads
Gina Locklear grew up around socks. As a child in Fort Payne in the 1980s and ’90s, she couldn’t avoid them. Back...
Power Eats
The Capital City Club, in Montgomery, has its own definition of fast food, with an adventurous menu that puts the...
Up from the Ducks—Crimson’s Gold
Eli Gold has been the “voice” of something for more than 40 years, from hockey teams to NASCAR races to his current...
Walter’s Big Push
If “black gold” makes you think of oil, think again. It may be a better moniker for coal. After all, coal...
Seven Real Estate Winners
The Alley, Montgomery Sometimes a big deal can occur in a small space—like a back alley, for example. That...
Shelley Stewart: From Segregation to Connections
At a time when cultural and political forces were aligned to keep people apart in Alabama, Shelley Stewart wanted to start a...
Aggressive Strategies in Hard Times
Few business sectors have been hit as hard as the construction industry by the economic downturn that began in 2008. The Associated General...