A clear message was delivered by the results of the 2022 primary and runoff elections. Alabama voters want political leaders who support a pro-jobs agenda for the Yellowhammer State. The Business Council of Alabama (BCA), working through its political affiliate ProgressPAC, endorsed more than 120 candidates leading up to the 2022 primary elections. All three […]

Entrepreneur and Vestavia Hills native Ted Alling has been elected to the Coca-Cola Bottling Company United, Inc. board of directors. Claude B. Nielsen, chairman of Coca-Cola UNITED, said of Alling, “Ted has acquired a wealth of entrepreneurial expertise and extensive knowledge of the logistics industry, which will be very beneficial as Coca-Cola UNITED continues to […]

Major League Baseball’s moving the 2021 All-Star Game from Atlanta over Georgia’s new voting law symbolizes businesses’ new willingness to take sides on political issues, typically the progressive side. Businesses previously avoided offending potential customers or employees. Selling to both Republicans and Democrats maximizes profit! Vivek Ramaswamy explores the causes and consequences of “woke” business […]

Neil Lamb’s story reads like the tagline from his Shareable Science blog: “the building blocks of life, one story at a time.” Lamb graduated from Auburn University’s College of Sciences and Mathematics (COSAM) in 1992 with a bachelor’s degree in molecular biology and he completed a doctorate in genetics and molecular biology from Emory University in 1997. On July 1, he […]

MONTGOMERY, Alabama — Commerce Secretary Greg Canfield is leading a team of economic development specialists from across Alabama at next week’s 2022 Farnborough International Airshow as part of a strategic push to facilitate growth in the state’s economically important aerospace and defense sector. Beginning Monday, the trade show is the industry’s premier 2022 business event, […]

Spaceplane landings. New generation launch systems. A “digital first” factory to advance hypersonic technologies. Rocket engines roaring to life. Research accelerating 3-D printed parts in commercial aircraft. In case you missed a headline or two, these dynamic developments are taking shape right now in Alabama’s aerospace industry. And that’s only part of the picture as […]

The Bailey Cove Farmers Market in Huntsville leads Alabama at the quarter-way mark in balloting for the America’s Farmers Market Celebration, a summer-long promotion that allows local-food fans to vote for their favorite direct-from-grower outlets. The competition, sponsored by the American Farmland Trust and the Farmers Market Coalition, carries a $10,000 prize package for the top five […]

A collaborative effort among state leadership and workforce development entities has placed Alabama’s workforce on track to surpass the state’s ambitious postsecondary attainment goal, according to Gov. Kay Ivey. The governor’s “Success Plus” plan aims to add 500,000 individuals with postsecondary credentials to the state’s workforce by 2025. According to the Center for Regional Economic […]

A clear message was delivered by the results of the 2022 primary and runoff elections. Alabama voters want political leaders who support a pro-jobs agenda for the Yellowhammer State. The Business Council of Alabama (BCA), working through its political affiliate ProgressPAC, endorsed more than 120 candidates leading up to the 2022 primary elections. All three […]

Huntsville-headquartered Redstone Federal Credit Union (RFCU) is the best credit union in the state of Alabama, according to Forbes. This marks the fourth consecutive year that Forbes has recognized RFCU as one of the top credit unions in the state. The national business magazine issues annual rankings based on a review of member surveys and […]

Tuesday, the Alabama Innovation Corporation announced the opening of applications for a small business grant program designed to jumpstart entrepreneurship and innovation. According to the governor’s office, funds awarded from the Innovate Alabama Supplemental Grant Program aim to grow the state’s economy by stimulating research and commercialization. Alabama-based recipients of Phase I and Phase II […]

A clear message was delivered by the results of the 2022 primary and runoff elections: Alabama voters want political leaders who support a pro-jobs agenda for the Yellowhammer State. The Business Council of Alabama (BCA), working through its political affiliate ProgressPAC, endorsed more than 120 candidates leading up to the 2022 primary elections. All three […]

For the first time in almost a decade, a payload created by a student-led group at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) has rocketed to space. Students are now analyzing the data sent back by the flight monitoring equipment they built as part of the Terminus Spaceflight Research Group (TSRG) operating under the auspices […]

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo this week announced the department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) had awarded a grant to the city of Fairhope to create a business resource hub for technology entrepreneurs. The grant will help renovation efforts at the Fairhope K-1 Center, located in Downtown Fairhope, according to a release. The Baldwin Community […]

Local and state officials recently joined Farpoint Development to announce the launch of a project to build the Regional East Alabama Logistics (REAL) Park. The project is geared toward supercharging economic growth in the Tuskegee region, according to area stakeholders. Farpoint has begun construction on the project’s first structure, which is an expandable, 169,000-square-foot spec […]

Six Alabama small business owners were recently hosted by Meta, Facebook’s parent company, in Washington, D.C. to meet with U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) to discuss how social media helps their companies’ operations. The women entrepreneurs discussed their experiences as small business owners and spoke about challenges that women and minorities face in their fields. […]

Everbloom Health has opened its new manufacturing facility on HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology’s campus in Huntsville, which will expand the food manufacturer’s portfolio of barley-based food products. According to a release, Everbloom Health’s barley-based offerings are catered to health-conscious consumers and individuals following kidney or renal diets. In a statement announcing the new manufacturing facility, […]

A phrase often heard these days is “date the rate, marry the house.” As homebuyers have watched interest rates rise over last year, this has been the advice to cautious purchasers. Today, buyers are reacting in one of two ways: they’re either making the decision to buy now before rates climb higher, or they’re waiting […]

At the recent Fusion 2022 conference, the truck driver shortage was a major topic of discussion. The fifth annual supply chain symposium hosted by Auburn University Harbert College of Business had multiple speakers echo the issues facing this crucial cog of the supply chain in America. Auburn alum and AAA Cooper Transportation CEO Reid Dove […]

John Craft, clinical associate professor of law at Faulkner Law, was awarded the 2022 Public Interest Attorney Award at the Alabama State Bar’s 145th annual meeting. The award, presented by the Alabama State Bar Volunteer Lawyers Program, was given in recognition of Craft’s pro bono efforts in the area of elder law. Craft, a graduate […]

University of Alabama at Birmingham President Dr. Ray Watts and University of Alabama System Chancellor Finis St. John, in consultation with the UA System Board of Trustees, have announced plans to maintain continuity and positive momentum in UAB Medicine by leveraging the expertise of veteran leaders with the upcoming departure of Dr. Selwyn Vickers who will become president and CEO of Memorial Sloan Kettering […]

D’Road Café is a kind of crossroads of international flavor in downtown Montgomery. It’s billed as a Latin (and mainly Venezuelan) restaurant, but owner Janett Malpartida pays no mind to borders. South American cuisine is just the beginning of what she can do. “I believe that food is happiness, and I want to share that with […]

United Launch Alliance (ULA) has delivered on yet another launch that will prove vital to U.S. national security in the realm of missile defense. At 6:15 p.m. CST on Friday, a ULA Atlas V rocket carrying experimental military payloads for the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command lifted off from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape […]

Revitalization of Trussville, Alabama’s downtown is well under way with the addition of its new entertainment district. The development caters to the community that lives locally and offers a variety of options for “play” like a family-friendly green space, a brewery carrying artisan ales, trendy restaurants and even an outdoor amphitheater. As the development got […]