Chris McFadyen
Working and Living in Alabama’s Biggest Oil Patch
Conecuh County lies about half way between Montgomery and Mobile on I-65. Hop off the interstate at Evergreen, the county seat, ...
Ready for Another Big Bank Crisis? Bailout?
A watershed of lawsuits now breaking across the country could cause another crisis among the largest investment banks — the same banks that...
Accounting for Health Care Reform
One thing you can count on after the 2012 presidential election is that health care reform, passed in 2010 — the Affordable...
Alabama Image Enhancers
INTERNET CREDS Internet guru Jimmy Wales spins to any who’ll listen the assets of being born and raised in Alabama. “There’s a very...
Mission Routinely Impossible
Patrick Scheuermann was named director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in September. He took over the reins of the Huntsville complex —...
Career End for a Political Boss
Goodwin Myrick, one of the most powerful figures in Alabama politics, announced he was stepping down from his 20-year reign as...
Game Over. Hit Reset.
Keivan Deravi is a professor of economics at Auburn University Montgomery’s School of Business. He designed the Alabama Economic Forecasting Model, which...
The Free Market Meets its Match
You would have thought it was Hugo Chavez nationalizing oil fields, the way the Montgomery real estate community reacted to news David...
They Might Be Giants
Huntsville has historically been the hub of Alabama aerospace enterprise—the builders of spacecraft—but Huntsville also sets the pace for using aircraft to get...
Politics as a Dirty Shame
The Big Steal of 1892 As nasty as politics gets, at its worst you can always count on somebody saying it...