Kathy Hagood
Art from Alabama Transforms Workplaces
Corporate art enhances the visual environment, providing businesses with a more sophisticated ambience and enhancing their brand. Most frequently considered a décor item, corporate...
Private Judging Emerges in Alabama
Mediation and arbitration continue to grow in popularity in Alabama and beyond as a means of avoiding expensive and time-consuming public court battles. Now,...
Give Us Your Earnest, Your Devout, Your High Achievers
Alabama may not have the draw of a Las Vegas or an Orlando, but conventions and other types of association meetings are big business...
Public Money for Banks Only?
Local governments, schools boards, utilities and other public agencies, working to stretch their budgets as the economy struggles, are looking beyond their banks to...
Building Back Better
Alabama is vulnerable to major storm damage from tornadoes and hurricanes, and lately it seems we have had more than our fair share....
Strategic Redirection Saves Retail Real Estate Venture
Partners Robert Jolly and Mead Silsbee couldn’t have picked a worse time to launch a business specializing in the retail segment of real...
Healthy Choices Equal Lower Health Care Costs
Far-sighted Alabama businesses and associations are instituting and expanding workplace wellness programs. Their leaders realize that well-run programs more than pay for themselves...
Alabama M*A*S*H
Within the past few years, dozens of new hospital trauma centers have sprung up in Alabama. The numbers are part of a...
A Master Chefs Sampler
The Year of Alabama Food may be coming to a close, but Alabama’s emergence as a significant food destination continues. Our nationally...
Hot Rising Southern Comfort
A visit to grandma’s house in yesteryear meant indulging in delights like piping-hot, made-from-scratch biscuits or rolls and homemade jelly. While the...