Tag: Spotlight
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...
Gulf Oil Feeding Frenzy
Remember when the Exxon Valdez supertanker struck a reef in 1989 and spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil into Alaska’s Prince William Sound?...
Downtown Prime
Alabama is not the land of skyscrapers, but it does have a nice collection of downtown high-rise office buildings worth knowing. Perhaps they should...
How to Sell a (Pricey) College Degree
Has it become trite to say that Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and the late Steve Jobs at Apple never finished college?
And...