November 2011

In This Issue

	Huntsville Names New Economic QB By Nedra Bloom
	ThyssenKrupp Stainless Re-branded For Sale By Nedra Bloom
	Smashing Sendoff at Austal By Nedra Bloom
	Strategic, Savvy Nonprofits Innovative business strategies help nonprofits serve clients when they’re needed most. By Kathy Hagood
	Four-Star Provider Newly relocated to Huntsville, Gen. Ann Dunwoody—the first woman to be named a four-star general— heads the U.S. Army Materiel Command, the supply side of the U.S. Army around the world. By Tara Hulen
	Defense Economies Test Their Defenses Sharp cuts in government budgets may eventually put some nicks in defense funding, but each of Alabama’s military-centric cities seem sure its home base is well armored. By Tara Hulen
	A Life Affirming Partnership Alabama’s business community partnered with nonprofits to deliver tornado disaster relief. By Kathy Hagood
	Pine Trees v. Classrooms A federal court ruled to allow Alabama’s property tax law to stand in a case where plantiffs argued that the law was designed to underfund rural, majority black schools. By Kelli M. Dugan
	Scared to Death: Cyber Insecurity in Alabama's Technology Hub If you don’t “wake up at night scared to death of the threats to our national defense assets,” the military brass in Huntsville wants you to know you should. And the mayor of Huntsville has an economic development initiative that depends on it. By Mike Kelley
	Unwelcome Harvest It’s no mystery why 80 to 90 percent of Alabama’s migrant agriculture labor has disappeared, says Agriculture Commissioner John McMillan. “They don’t have to go any farther than Florida to get the same kind of work and be welcomed.” Interview by Chris McFadyen