Drake State Community and Technical College is enhancing its 15-year partnership with NASA’s High Schools United with NASA to Create Hardware (HUNCH) program through significant upgrades to its advanced manufacturing lab. The ongoing collaboration provides students with hands-on experience working on actual aerospace components and opportunities to engage directly with NASA engineers and mentors. As […]
Bank Independent has announced the appointment of Jason Windham as President of the bank and CJ Ryan as President of Interstate Billing Service, its wholly owned subsidiary. Macke Mauldin, Bank Independent CEO, has been President of the bank since 1996. “It has been an honor to serve as President of the bank for the past […]
The Rocket City maintains its position as a leading national destination for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) professionals. The latest national report from CoworkingCafe ranks Huntsville as the fourth-best mid-sized U.S. metro area (with a population between 500,000 and 999,999), based on factors such as job availability, wage growth, affordability, and educational infrastructure. The […]
Businesses statewide are recalibrating payroll systems as Alabama’s tax exemption on overtime pay expires June 30. The nine-month pilot, once celebrated as a national model for worker relief, ends with little fanfare. Lawmakers declined to renew it after costs ballooned to ten times original estimates and critics argued it favored higher earners. Initial projections in […]
Redstone Federal Credit Union was recently recognized with a Stevie® Award at the 23rd Annual American Business Awards®. The credit union was praised for its commitment to serving members of modest means and for its unique community service efforts. Redstone won a Silver Stevie® Award in the Company of the Year – Banking (Large) category. […]
Huntsville is no stranger to federal twists and turns. From Saturn V to today’s Artemis missions, the city has long weathered Washington’s ups and downs while steadily expanding its aerospace, defense, and tech footprint. Now, as the Senate weighs amendments to the “Big Beautiful Bill” (H.R. 1), local business owners are rightly asking how Sen. Ted Cruz’s proposed spending […]
The age-old riddle about which came first, the chicken or the egg, was long ago solved. It was the egg. Eggs are prehistoric and predate the chicken, which is relatively new in the evolution of things. Sounds reasonable, but Dennis Madsen, manager of urban and long-range planning for the City of Huntsville, unveiled his own […]
Huntsville’s employers are feeling the same headwinds as companies nationwide: higher turnover, stubborn productivity gaps, and ballooning health‑care costs [1]. An overlooked culprit is mental illness, which affects one in five U.S. adults each year — nearly 58 million people [2]. A new macro‑economic study by economists at Yale and Columbia puts a sharper edge on that headline […]
Go Build Alabama is scheduled to host a free hiring event on Tuesday, June 17, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Calhoun Community College’s Advanced Technology Center. The event aims to connect job seekers with opportunities in commercial construction. Demand for skilled workers continues to rise as commercial construction projects expand across North Alabama, […]
As an ongoing political tug-of-war drags on between Alabama and Colorado to land the permanent Space Command headquarters, frustration grows among politicians from both states. The decision, with Dr. Troy E. Meink’s approval by the U.S. Senate three weeks ago as the new Secretary of the Air Force, is expected any day to either move […]
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