Winners, Losers from This Year’s Legislative Session
As we began 2020, lawmakers had high hopes for the regular session. The economy was booming, state revenue was up and there was even...
Top Headlines: Alabama’s unemployment fund, Mobile aerospace facility won’t reopen
Florida man pleads guilty in $200M prescription fraud case in Haleyville
Officials say a Florida man has pleaded guilty in Alabama to a prescription drug-billing...
The Abnormal, the Social House and the All So Human
Just as the virus crisis "new normal" is Orwellian new speak for "abnormal," social distancing has been a 180-degree tongue swallowing for modern urban...
Access to the Internet Essential for Alabama’s Future
We all have had our lives disrupted during this period of health and economic crisis. Students, faculty and staff at Alabama's colleges and universities...
Benchmark Developments at the Port
Steel is rising at one edge of the Port of Mobile, while it’s coming down in just as orderly a manner at another edge.
On...
Rapid Response to the PPP in Alabama: ServisFirst
A major stopgap federal relief program during the virus crisis, the Paycheck Protection Program, is winding down its second round, with no third round...
Top Headlines: Magic City plans for vacant mall, Alabama tops 10,000 Covid cases
Magic City wants to turn vacant mall into shipping facility
Birmingham city officials are planning to renovate a shuttered mall into a shipping and logistics...
Favorable Business Provisions of the CARES Act
While the headlines were focused on the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), the CARES Act contains several provisions beneficial to businesses.
Who to Bring Back? Managing Employees After COVID-19
I am planning the re-opening of my business. I don’t anticipate that I will need all of the employees I had before the...
350-Fold Telemedicine Boom “Nothing Short of a Miracle”
The swift adaptation of the Alabama health care system to telemedicine during the virus crisis has been "nothing short of a miracle," says Dr....