Counties Houston & Henry in Alabama Take the Spotlight
Houston and Henry counties are located in the southeast corner of the state, the heart of the Wiregrass region. Both border Georgia on the...
Country Entertainers Hit the Beach — Blue Collar Destinations
Plans for a major Blue Collar Destinations entertainment project that kicked off this summer in Foley have sparked hopes for a tourism boost in...
Branch Banks
Are branch banks becoming an endangered species? Soon to rest in peace with downtown movie theaters, record shops, video rental stores and gas stations...
Aircraft Company, Airbus, Opens Shop
It’s still two years before the first Airbus A320 will roll off the assembly line now under construction in Mobile, but the first supplier...
Refreshment Reformation
Located in Birmingham, Coca-Cola Bottling Company United is the third largest Coca-Cola bottler in North America and the largest privately held Coca-Cola bottler. United...
Ford’s Million Dollar Shine
Out of his teens, out of college and out of work, Russ Ford found employment polishing other people’s shoes. He offered great service —...
Agriculture Farm Financing
Yesterday’s dirt-under-his-fingernails yeoman farmer who tilled the soil with a horse-drawn plow would be astounded by today’s mechanized and diversified farm. Advances during the...
Give Us Your Earnest, Your Devout, Your High Achievers
Alabama may not have the draw of a Las Vegas or an Orlando, but conventions and other types of association meetings are big business...
Cotton Fields of the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology
That Old South anthem “Dixie, ” maundering for the “land of cotton, ” may well have been picturing Alabama, but certainly not the Alabama...
Insurance Agents about the Impact of Weather Events
Ask commercial insurance agents along Alabama’s Gulf Coast about the impact of catastrophic weather events, and you’ll hear repeated references to “before Katrina” and...