Closing the Skills Gap
Even with an unemployment rate hovering at around 7.9 percent, many U.S. industry leaders say that one of their toughest challenges is...
Oil Spill Testimony Begins Flowing
The economic future of British oil giant BP hung in the balance during opening testimony in a long-anticipated federal court action over BP’s...
Rail Car Plant Runs Full Circle, Back to Rail Cars
From rail cars to real crisis to truck line and back to rail cars. It’s taken several years, but the massive plant...
Critical Thinking Command
Gen. Charles Krulak took the job of president of Birmingham-Southern College in March 2011, following a career in the Marine Corps and...
Class Action Claimed in No-Class Cruise
More than 100 passengers from the crippled Carnival cruise ship Triumph, that limped into the port of Mobile at the end of...
Seafood Sales Summit
People who make their living selling seafood got together in Mobile on March 6 for what was billed as the first annual Alabama...
Gambling Raiders Ride Again
Swinging a bingo-circling legal lasso, Attorney General Luther Strange targeted both Indian and non-Indian electronic gambling late this winter. State forces —...
Build It and They Will Come Build
When Rob Adams spent a year working at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 2010, he stumbled onto a trend that...
Building Tools Redesigned
A magnetic drill attachment to avert neck pain for overhead work. An ergonomic mud pan for drywall finishers. A hard hat that monitors...
US Postal Service Tribute to Rosa Parks
The U.S. Postal Service in February unveiled a new, historic Forever Stamp honoring civil rights leader Rosa Parks, at the site...