Gail Allyn Short
GD Copper: Poster Company for Job Creation Goes Union
By a razor-thin margin, workers at Golden Dragon Copper USA in Pine Hill elected to unionize the plant last November.
The vote at the Wilcox County...
The Tower: Prestige Digs in Tuscaloosa
Real estate developer William Yandell was having lunch with his son in downtown Tuscaloosa in 2009 when he spotted one of the city’s iconic...
Custom Engineering Solutions for Manufacturers
Back when they were students at the University of Alabama’s School of Engineering, Arnar Thors says he and Matt Fitzgerald often collaborated on class...
Clean Power Plan: EPA Cracks Down on Coal
Representatives of coal-fired utilities and politicians in Alabama have been crying foul since the Environmental Protection Agency unveiled its first-ever proposal to reduce carbon...
Oakworth Capital Bank: De Nouveau in the Wealth Niche
In the fall of 2007, on the eve of the worst financial crisis in U.S. history since the Great Depression, a group of Birmingham...
Grandview Medical Center: Building Benchmarks for 50 Years
Work on the new Grandview Medical Center on U.S. 280 in Birmingham is moving forward more than a decade after the building’s former owner brought...
VIPAAR Biotechnology Company: Now You See It
The notion of having a technician materialize before your eyes to help you fix your computer might seem as farfetched as a scene from...
Billy Norrell’s Unique Career Path to Become CEO of AGC
Before becoming CEO of the Associated General Contractors (AGC) Alabama chapter, Billy Norrell says his career path took several unexpected turns and curves along...
Remembering Henry Hagood: CEO of the Alabama AGC
Alex Whaley Sr., CEO of Whaley Construction Co. in Troy, still remembers the day in 1998 when an electrician at his client’s job site...
Restaurants to Dine at
Be an impressionist, at Oscar’s at the Museum
When Jim Cobb and his wife, Krystal, took over operations at the Birmingham Museum of Art’s restaurant...