Tag: September 2013
SEC Football as Business Model: Forbes
“What happens when you take a group of rival institutions, each with their own staffs of hundreds of employees and operating on budgets in...
Repton Wins Landfill Suit
The tiny community of Repton in rural Conecuh County — backed by its neighbors in Atmore and Brewton, the Escambia County Commission and the...
Hack This!
Jim Simon was a U.S. Army intelligence officer, career CIA analyst and partner in Microsoft before starting his own cyber security consulting firm named...
Thoughtful Communities
AUBURN
When the city of Auburn began developing its comprehensive plan, CompPlan 2030, it did not hire outside consultants, as is common. Instead, the plan...
Naval Hospital for the Pacific Rim Needs a Modern Replacement
For more than half a century, the U.S. Navy in the Pacific Rim has relied on the U.S. Naval Hospital at Guam for healthcare....
Freight Cars Back on Track in the Shoals
Freight car production has finally begun in earnest at a sprawling Shoals plant where production was sidetracked for nearly five years, as FreightCar America...
Verizon Wireless: Communications Switch
A spotless labyrinth of cables and rows of housed circuitry, Verizon Wireless’ new Alabama switching center supports the company’s new 4G LTE network, which...
Cities North and South Ride Retail Rodeo
More than 1, 000 people turned out in late July to celebrate the groundbreaking for a new shopping center in Gardendale, while the Mobile...
Lawsuit Against Drummond Co. Dismissed in Federal Court
A long-running lawsuit against Birmingham-based Drummond Co. and its president over labor-related killings near its Colombian mining operations has been dismissed in federal court...
Medical Students Begin Classes at New Med School
More than 150 medical students began classes Aug. 5 at the new Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine in Dothan.
Built in conjunction with Dothan’s Southeast...