Chris McFadyen
Alabama Unemployment Claims Steady vs. Florida Logjam
Comparisons of Alabama to its neighbors, particularly Florida, usually do not invite good will for Alabama. But Alabamians out of work because of the...
Doctor Practices Losing Revenue, Patients, Staff
Doctors offices across the country have been laying off and furloughing staffs as revenues decline sharply and are expected to continue declining, according to...
Specialty Products Maker Vectorply Bought for $155 Million
Phenix City-based Vectorply is in the process of closing on an agreement to be bought for $155 million by Neenah Inc., a specialty materials...
25 Important Boards to Know
Your Who’s Who for doing business in Alabama — an introduction to the boards of 25 important public companies and influential economic and community development organizations
What’s the Science Behind These Tests?
We asked an expert at HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology to help us understand the science behind the increasingly many tests being done across the...
187th Fighter Wing Chosen as F-35 Base
The Air Force, on April 15, chose a Montgomery Air National Guard base as the 6th base in the U.S. to field F-35s, the...
What State Insurance Commissions Are Doing RE: Virus Crisis
Alabama is one of 38 states whose insurance commissioner has issued a bulletin directing insurance companies on how to adjust their policy practices to...
Crisis Damage to Tourism — 10 Percent of the Ala. Economy
The Alabama tourism industry, which reached a high of $15.5 billion in 2018 and accounted for 10 percent of the total state economy, is...
Visit an Alabama Company Making COVID-19 Tests
A Fort Payne company that has long been primarily in the business of designing and equipping drug testing labs across the country has shifted...
Robins & Morton to Convert Miami Beach Convention Center into Field Hospital
Birmingham-based construction firm Robins & Morton is converting 250,000 square feet of the Miami Beach Convention Center into a 450-bed field hospital, including isolation...