Rolling Stone: Jefferson County was a Mafia Hit
Rolling Stone calls it “The Scam Wall Street Learned from the Mafia” and one of the victims, they say, is Jefferson...
Health Care Stands; Alabama Leaders Divided
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the majority of federal health care reform legislation, dubbed “Obamacare, ” winning praise from some quarters, ...
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...