Dave Helms
Wal-Mart Deal Invigorates Wadley Furniture Plant
The town of Wadley, Alabama, population 700, doesn’t have a Wal-Mart, but it recently saw 50 jobs added from what...
St. Vincent’s Starts Suburban Surgery
The first surgery completed at St. Vincent’s One Nineteen outpatient center — a bone anchored hearing aid implant — was one of the first...
Couple Throws Shades on Workaday Life
It sounds like a reality show on the Travel Channel: Two Birmingham denizens, a Baker Donelson lawyer and a Pepper Place interior designer,...
Little Tractor From Alabama Gets Its Shot
If all goes to plan, an Alabama company will have the first U.S. factory in Cuba in more than half a century. ...
All You Need is Nodes: Supercomputing at Auburn
Auburn University’s new $1 million supercomputer, turned on for the first time last month, is winning accolades not only for its lightning-fast...
Rosie’s Garage Rides for the Tribe
Like a lot of retired university professors with a Ph.D. in business logistics, Janice Bowers decided to open a motorcycle ministry and support...
Obesity Initiative Hits Scale for 10th Year
Every January brings an opportunity to start anew, and that’s just what 157 Alabamians did last month to kick off the start of...
Rough Sailing for International Shipholding
Mobile-based International Shipholding Corp. began trading under the symbol ISHC on the OTCQX market in December after falling off the New York Stock Exchange...
Guns are Up, But Not Remington’s
“Mr. Obama is the best gun salesman on the planet, ” according to Louis Navellier, chairman of the Reno, Nevada investment firm...
Redstone Arsenal Fire Sale
Though the war on ISIS may seem far away, at least two notable developments regarding that conflict have involved work being done by...