Tag: December 2012
Yes to Incentives; Brighter Outlook for Schools
Alabama voters approved one of the largest bond issue programs in the nation on election day, second highest of all that were...
Three Hospitals Closing
Birmingham, Mobile and Clanton are all losing hospitals — all for different reasons. In Birmingham, Cooper Green Mercy is in...
ThyssenKrupp Wants More For Mills
German steelmaker ThyssenKrupp wants to sell its new mills in Alabama and Brazil, which are losing money, but — hoping to...
Mission Routinely Impossible
Patrick Scheuermann was named director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in September. He took over the reins of the Huntsville complex —...
Hot Socks vs. Cheap Threads
Gina Locklear grew up around socks. As a child in Fort Payne in the 1980s and ’90s, she couldn’t avoid them. Back...
Two Big Dockings at Port of Mobile
An enormous shiploader and the biggest ship ever have made headlines at the Port of Mobile this fall. The $7.35 million shiploader arrived...
Alabama M*A*S*H
Within the past few years, dozens of new hospital trauma centers have sprung up in Alabama. The numbers are part of a...
Speak for Yourself, Wall Street
Regional banks, including Birmingham-based Regions, are speaking out on their own behalf, distancing themselves from Wall Street and mega-banks and...
Bentley Pushes Early Retirement, Bronner Questions
Gov. Robert Bentley is proposing a plan to offer early retirement to state workers. If 500 workers opted for the plan, he...
Flights of Fancy
On its website, Airbus waxes poetic in describing the future of the airplane cabin — “Future-gazing by Airbus shows blueprints for radical...