Governor Robert Bentley on Wednesday signed a proclamation formally declaring November 29 as Small Business Saturday in Alabama. Small Business Saturday is designed to celebrate and support small businesses and the…
Category: The Alabama Economy
Who’s Who of Entire U.S. Economy Urges Congress to Pass Tax Extenders
More than 500 organizations representing millions of individuals and the entire U.S. economy on Tuesday joined the Business Council of Alabama in urging Congress to pass needed tax extenders during the…
Ditch the Proposed WOTUS Rule
Business Council of Alabama President and CEO William J. Canary today wrote the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that the BCA opposes their goal of…
Maze-like EPA Carbon Rule Graphic Shows Complexity of Costly Change
New illustrations showing the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed carbon reduction rule making process are a bureaucratic delight but a consumer and electric producer’s nightmare. The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association’s before-and-after…
Alabama-Japan Partnership Grows with New Investment, Jobs
MONTGOMERY, Alabama – Alabama is attracting new investment and job-creating projects from Japanese manufacturers as the relationship between the Asian economic powerhouse and the state continues to grow. This week, Japan-based…
Knauf Insulation to Expand Alabama Plant, Create 100 Jobs
LANETT, Alabama – Knauf Insulation plans to double production at its Alabama plant, adding as many as 100 new workers in an expansion project that will make the Chambers County facility…
United Launch Alliance Alabama Factory Turns Rocket Science into Rockets
DECATUR, Alabama - Inside the United Launch Alliance Alabama factory, rocket science powers to life as workers assemble the giant Atlas and Delta launch vehicles that thrust critical satellites aloft and…
Reform the Tax Code, Carefully and Thoughtfully
The National Association of Manufacturers’ vice president of tax and domestic economic policy, Dorothy Coleman, writes that manufacturers advocate keeping important tax provisions known as extenders while Congress reforms the current…