Legal protection for businesses, healthcare providers and other groups from lawsuits related to the pandemic became law in Alabama on Feb. 12. Act No. 2021-4 by Sen. Arthur Orr, R-Decatur, and Rep. David Faulkner, R-Mountain Brook, became effective the moment…
Businesses, individuals and nonprofits do not have to pay state income taxes on federal coronavirus relief benefits received in 2020 or 2021, plus Alabama businesses will see reduced taxes, under Act No. 2021-1, which the governor signed Friday, Feb. 12….
With the governor’s signature today on Act No. 2021-2, the Alabama Jobs Act and Growing Alabama tax credits are extended until July 31, 2023. Without dissent, the Alabama Senate voted Wednesday in favor of HB192 by Rep. Bill Poole, R-Tuscaloosa….
After 25 years in the waterworks industry, Jim Moeller began looking for a career change. He reached out to a longtime friend from his hometown of Greenville, S.C., who is also the chief executive officer of a specialty butcher shop…
As it has almost everything for nearly a year, the coronavirus shaped the first week of the Alabama Legislature’s 2021 regular session, from testing lawmakers for the disease to adopting legislation to shield businesses and others from lawsuits related to the pandemic….
B&W FOODS PARTNER JAY WELBORN WORKS DAILY TO KEEP HIS FATHER’S LEGACY ALIVE IN THE COMPANY’S 5 PIGGLY WIGGLY STORES Jimmy Welborn traveled five days a week in his job in the wholesale grocery business, often with his young son,…
Almost a month of 2021 is behind us and so much has already happened. The 46th president has been sworn in, and the 117th Congress is two weeks into its new term. Alabama has a new U.S. senator, Tommy Tuberville,…
Amanda Laurence had been thinking for some time about opening her own home décor business. A dinner out at a Church Street restaurant in her beloved downtown Fairhope cemented her plan. “I looked up and there was a “For Rent”…
By Whitney R. Brown, Esq. COVID-19’s arrival in March 2020 spurred Congress to enact paid leave programs on a scale previously unthinkable: Emergency Paid Sick Leave (EPSL), which provided 80 hours of paid leave, and Emergency FMLA (EFMLA), which provided…
Since 1938, Andrews Hardware & Seed Store Inc. has served the people of Chatom, the county seat of Alabama’s Washington County. It’s where everyone gets their plumbing supplies, Yeti coolers and drinkware, boots and even bridal gifts. Originally owned by…