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Chris McFadyen

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Save the Family Farm: How Small Farms Can Succeed

Booker T. Whatley, who died in 2005 at age 89 at his home off Court Street in Montgomery, kept a flourishing midtown garden until...

Organic Farming from Randall Hastings: Head of Hastings Farm

Randall Hastings, age 60, heads Hastings Farm, one of the largest organic farms in Alabama, located in Bay Minette, the county seat of Baldwin...

Big Game Hunting

We spoke recently with Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle about one of the biggest economic development coups in state history. In February, gun manufacturer Remington...

Giant Roars to Full Blast

Christian Dohr was CEO of ThyssenKrupp Steel USA — the massive steel mill in north Mobile County — when we did this interview on...

Alabama’s Showcase Rooms

Tony Davis is the CEO of the leading hospitality company in Alabama, PCH Hotels & Resorts, the chain of resort hotels associated with the...

Currency Wars and Bursting Bubbles

Mark Thornton is an economist with the Ludwig von Mises Institute, headquartered in Auburn (but not a part of Auburn University). The institute is...

Workforce Development

Terry Waters took over as the new head of workforce development for the state in November. The Governor’s Office of Workforce Development comes under the...

Affordable Care Act Insights

We turn this month to two experts for insights on the Affordable Care Act and Alabama’s policy decisions regarding the Act. Dr. Don Williamson...

Intergraph: Software Victories and Avocent: a Golden Gizmo

Intergraph Hardware Wars to Software Victories In the late ’80s, Intergraph Corp. was the premiere high tech company in Alabama, even before high tech was perceived...

HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology: Jim Hudson on Creativity

For this issue focused on innovation and creativity, our Executive Q&A has gone to scientific innovation central — the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. Jim...

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