Sustain Your Network Startup
Roughly half of all Americans get their paycheck from a small business, and in Alabama the number is closer to two-thirds.
Bill Cummins, director of...
Spotlight on Baldwin County
Baldwin County, on the Alabama Gulf coast, is best known for tourism, an activity that is an economic driver for the entire state. Baldwin’s...
Huntsville Starting to Grow
Charlie Sealy III, who has led the charge to bring more residents to downtown Huntsville with recent loft developments, was raised in the real...
One Very Good Fish Dealer
Ralph Atkins Jr. counts his very existence on the esteem America once held for fishermen. The military decided his father should fight World War...
A Legacy for Access
According to civil rights activist Virginia Foster Durr, there were three paths a privileged Southern woman could follow. She could live the unexamined life...
Downtown Prime
Alabama is not the land of skyscrapers, but it does have a nice collection of downtown high-rise office buildings worth knowing. Perhaps they should...
Bo’s Business
In 1989, at the height of Bo Jackson’s success as a star in two professional sports, Nike unveiled an advertising campaign that greatly exaggerated...
Crime Watch Accounting
Inside the offices at Forensic Strategic Solutions Inc., in Birmingham, Ralph Summerford and his team of accountants gather in front of the large whiteboard...
Good to Know
From employee discrimination issues to the business of medicine, from legal ramifications of the ubiquitous email to regulations on one of the state’s newest...
Born to Build Guitars
When Roger Fritz recently relocated to Alabama — to Fairhope, on Mobile Bay — the state reclaimed the business of a master luthier —...
