In 1999, Bette Powell was on the tennis court when she learned the current owner wanted to close The Cook Store in Mountain Brook. She immediately thought of her daughter. At the time, Bette’s daughter, Wesley Powell Lassen, was working…
The Alabama Legislature began its 2020 regular session this week in the “best of times” economically, yet the “worst of times” as a federal takeover of Alabama’s prisons looms. Coming up with an “Alabama solution” to overcrowded prisons will consume…
MONTGOMERY – From Friday, Feb. 21, to Sunday, Feb. 23, Alabama will observe the state’s ninth annual Severe Weather Preparedness Sales Tax Holiday. The Alabama Retail Association encourages Alabamians to restock emergency supplies in homes, workplaces and vehicles during this three-day tax…
Alabama entered the new decade on a high note. More Alabamians are working than ever before, and revenue coming into the state last year broke records. By all accounts, holiday sales in Alabama exceeded everyone’s expectations. It is under that…
Legislation that had been scheduled for consideration in the second week of the 2020 regular session got moved to the third week after the House canceled all its Feb. 13 committee meetings so lawmakers could attend the funeral of a…
Legislation has been introduced to raise the minimum amount of theft that would result in a felony charge in Alabama from $500 to $1,500. That 200% increase would allow shoplifters to steal three times more before they face any punishment…
“We serve our customers in such a way that we will have the opportunity to do it again,” said Mike Vinson, president of Adams Drugs, a 12-store family owned regional pharmacy serving 60,000 patients in the River Region. “My parents…
James H. Dunklin IV grew up in Greenville, Alabama – just like his father, grandfather, great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather, all also named James H. Dunklin. That kind of intertwining of a family and a place has a powerful pull. “I could…
As of Jan. 1, 2020, Alabama employers will save an estimated $42.3 million annually under a law that reduces the duration of Alabama’s unemployment payouts while increasing benefits. Under Act No. 2019 – 204 by Sen. Arthur Orr, R-Decatur, and…
“My first job in retail, other than stocking shelves in high school, was with Sears, Roebuck and Co. in Chicago,” said Todd Noden, the Alabama Retail Association’s 2020-2021 board chairman. That planning and budget position with one of America’s oldest…