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 —...
Spotlight on Covington, Butler, Crenshaw & Lowndes Counties
Covington, Butler, Crenshaw and Lowndes counties, located in southeast Alabama, have worked hard to recruit and attract diverse industries, scoring strong in aerospace and...
Giant Roars to Full Blast
Christian Dohr was CEO of ThyssenKrupp Steel USA — the massive steel mill in north Mobile County — when we did this interview on...
Country Store Revival
Betsy Compton was the last person qualified to run a general store, or so she thought.
Marketing skills, financial training and inventory management savvy are...