Auburn Research Park: High Tech Seeks High Yield
Just off South College Street — Auburn’s main drag — past the chain restaurants, retail outlets and hotels is Auburn Research Park, a cluster...
Equities: Five Wealth Managers Weigh the Market
Top wealth managers at Alabama banks recommend stocks for client portfolios because of stocks’ long-term growth potential. While equities are just one investment option...
Alabama Incubators Greatly Aid Economic Development
Business incubation is often described as an economic development best value. For every dollar of estimated annual public operating subsidy provided the incubator, according...
Save the Family Farm: How Small Farms Can Succeed
Booker T. Whatley, who died in 2005 at age 89 at his home off Court Street in Montgomery, kept a flourishing midtown garden until...
Second Career Farmers Sell Natural Crops Locally
A 1996 civil engineering graduate from the University of Alabama, Trent Boyd was working for a building and excavation contractor in Birmingham when it...
Durant Accomplishes Many Things Despite Tough Times
When Mike Durant’s Black Hawk helicopter was shot down during combat in Mogadishu, Somalia, in 1993, he was attacked by a street mob, sustaining...
Maritime Security Industry Tackles Piracy on the Seas
Any new venture requires risk and gumption — but consider one that seeks to tackle piracy on the high seas. Now that’s taking “risky...
Organic Farming from Randall Hastings: Head of Hastings Farm
Randall Hastings, age 60, heads Hastings Farm, one of the largest organic farms in Alabama, located in Bay Minette, the county seat of Baldwin...
National Flood Insurance Program
The National Flood Insurance Program, the primary source of flood insurance coverage for most coastal residents, condo developments and businesses, is busted. As in...
The Delicious Dietitian
Jen Neese’s company motto is “Real nutrition for real people.” Her business, The Delicious Dietitian, provides a network of food experts serving patients throughout...