Alabama Celebrates Airbus
With a light show like a rock concert and organization like a Republican political convention, Airbus announced, to a packed house...
Top Dollar Jury Awards
1. Mannsfeld v. Ineos Americas LLC, et al Most people—on a good day—might be lucky to get a penny for their...
Roy Moore's Second Coming
A look back at the “Business & Politics” column in the July 2000 issue of Business Alabama is an exercise in eternal recurrence....
Civil Judgment Against McGregor, VictoryLand
Milton McGregor, owner of VictoryLand gambling facility, came unscathed through back-to-back federal criminal trials but lost, to the tune of...
$2 Billion Chump Change
News in May that J.P. Morgan dropped more than $2 billion in a derivatives trade made headlines, stirred Congressional committee hearings—Harrumph! Harrumph!—and...
Alabama's Largest Private Companies
Ranked by 2011 Sales Sources: Dun & Bradstreet, Standard & Poor's, Reference USA and company surveys. Those companies submitting information are...
Vulcan Update
With a court-ordered reprieve from a hostile takeover bid, Birmingham’s Vulcan Materials Co.—the largest provider of construction aggregates in the nation—re-elected four...
The Value of a Company Plane
On July 9, 2007 then-Sen. Barack Obama stepped off a Gulfstream jet onto the runway tarmac to kick off the Alabama portion...
U.S. Supreme Court Turns Deaf Ear on Siegelman Case
Former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman, who was convicted in federal court of accepting a bribe to appoint HealthSouth Chairman Richard Scrushy to...
Jefferson County Financial Struggles Continue
With no relief from the state Legislature, Jefferson County has skipped payment on a $200 million general obligation bond payment for the...