Dave Helms
Space Launch System: Welding Tool for Deep Space
The largest spacecraft-welding tool in the world, the Vertical Assembly Center, is open for business at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. The...
Is Military Equipment Necessary? Maximum Armor in Oxford
The question of deadly force by law enforcement took center stage in late summer and fall as Americans of all stripes digested the shooting...
Colonial’s Claim of Reckless Accounting Worth Hearing, Judge Rules
Accounting firms PricewaterhouseCoopers and Crowe Horwath must deal with a lawsuit accusing them of professional malpractice and breach of contract for not catching the...
Alabama Gulf Seafood Shirts: Billy Reid Prepares T-Shirts
Alabama-based fashion designer Billy Reid once again is partnering with Alabama Gulf Seafood to create a special, three-design T-shirt series.
The series features images and...
James Webb Space Telescope: Countdown to Extraterrestrial Hookup
Things are unfolding just fine for the James Webb Space Telescope — Alabama’s newest contribution to space exploration — which passed a major test...
John Walker Paintings: Lost ’30s Treasure Reclaimed
Mural painter John Augustus Walker painted in bold tempera strokes that gave his oversized paintings an aura of dense, dreamlike motion. Walker, a full-time...
Go Build E-Textbook: Downloading a Better Career Path
Go Build Alabama has unveiled a skilled trades e-textbook that uses interactive exercises for students and teachers to showcase technical careers in labor-hungry industries.
Inside...
Vaping and E-cigarettes Popularity: Vape ’em if you Got ’em
The vagaries of vaping in Alabama have brought quick profits to retailers, provided jobs in the state’s quietest backwaters and left everyone in the...
UAH CanSat Competition: This Race Comes with Rockets
Two student teams from the University of Alabama in Huntsville finished third and seventh in a global competition to create space systems.
Called CanSat, the...
Rural Studios at Twenty: Chronicles of the Company Through the Years
It came into being, according to one of the founders, because architects had become “lapdogs of the rich” who needed to learn how to...