Tag: Spotlight
Custom Engineering Solutions for Manufacturers
Back when they were students at the University of Alabama’s School of Engineering, Arnar Thors says he and Matt Fitzgerald often collaborated on class...
Biofuel: The Farmer’s Alchemist To Stop Waste of Biomass
There’s oil in them there … corn cobs?
A Tuscaloosa-based company certainly thinks so. Inventure Renewables has created a process to take basic waste biomass,...
Chambers of Commerce — Varied Focus, Allied Interests
Alabama has 120 chambers of commerce serving as business advocates within their communities. Yet the size, structure and focus among these chambers can vary...
Alabama State Port: Port as State Economic Plan
The $600 million Airbus final assembly line in Mobile will move its first fuselage units through the Alabama State Port in the spring of...
Spotlight on Pike, Barbour and Bullock Counties
Pike, Barbour and Bullock counties are a compatible contrast of traditional and futuristic. In this southeast corner of the state, agriculture thrives alongside technology-driven...
Opelika Power Services: Opelika Puts Itself on the Main Line
When the city of Opelika bought a privately owned electric plant more than 100 years ago, many Americans were still without electricity — cooking...
Spotlight on Bibb, Chilton and Dallas Counties
Bibb, Chilton and Dallas counties, in west central Alabama, are steeped in history and heritage but also moving ahead with jobs creation and ambitious...
Calhoun and Talladega Counties Take the Spotlight
Talladega and Calhoun counties, in northeast Alabama, are as bountiful in economic opportunity as they are in natural resources.
The landscapes of these Appalachian foothills...
National Flood Insurance Program
The National Flood Insurance Program, the primary source of flood insurance coverage for most coastal residents, condo developments and businesses, is busted. As in...
One Very Good Fish Dealer
Ralph Atkins Jr. counts his very existence on the esteem America once held for fishermen. The military decided his father should fight World War...