Economy

Old Fashioned Market

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Sock Capital of the World

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Food Safety

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If Money Grew on Trees

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Philanthropy: Venture Philanthropy

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Philanthropy: Transfer of Wealth

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The Road Less Traveled

  The 94-mile highway known as Corridor X has been on the drawing board for three decades, but now, transportation officials say it is only a few years from being complete. For the small businesses ‘ the tiny mom and pop restaurants, hotels and service stations sprinkled along the old highway the interstate will parallel […]

For the Birds

On a quiet Sunday morning, the parking lot of the National Guard Armory is already filled with cars and vans and RVs, bearing tags as far away as Louisiana and Texas. A family reunion, maybe? Well, not exactly. The visitors who are flocking to this sprawling space are members of a unique subculture: bird enthusiasts. […]

Health South: A Non-Profit Reality

Gary Edwards is happy to forget the old building his organization -‘ United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Birmingham -‘ used to inhabit. “We’d probably been in that particular one for 30 years -‘ we held it together with duct tape. That was a part of town that was kinda changing.” That’s a polite way of […]