That’s according to the folks at MarketWatch.com as Birmingham was ranked as the 9th best city to do business in the country. Accroding to their site, they:
… measured the concentration of Fortune 1000, S&P 500, Russell 2000 and Forbes 400 private companies in the nation’s top 50 metro areas, as well as concentration of small [...]

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Terminal publisher/editor André Natta at launch party/Happy Hour for a Cause 2 on August 29 at The Bottletree. Photo credit: Bob Farley/f8photo
Yeah, we just found out ourselves. The piece in the Birmingham Business Journal includes photos taken from the website’s launch party and Happy Hour for a Cause event on August 29th at The Bottletree. [...]

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Judge Robert Vance sided with the office of the mayor and council of Birmingham when he ruled that the store at the center of a case involving allegations of physically attacking a female customer in East Lake must close its doors according to mainstream media news accounts reported just moments ago.
The store owner’s attorney has [...]

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The state’s tourism office has decided to finally make the 1974 Lynyrd Skynyrd hit the official 2008 slogan and campaign. This after everyone else seems to have already adopted it unofficially. To your left is the logo for the new campaign, launched last week at a press conference hosted by Governor Riley. Click here to [...]

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Just down the road from downtown Birmingham in downtown Irondale, will be the annual Whistle Stop Festival, named for  “Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café” by Fannie Flagg. The festival will have arts and crafts, memorabilia from the city’s past and  of course, fried green tomatoes along with other Southern foods, free music, [...]

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Photo credit: Christina Tutor
Whether you do or you don’t, today’s the last day that you can register to vote in the upcoming Birmingham mayoral election! It’s also the last day that you can take part in our online mayoral poll.
Click over to Election ‘07 to cast your vote in our poll (UPDATED, 9.28.2007, 4:34 p.m., [...]

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September 28:
1938

Former Dora High School star Ivy Paul Andrews played his last major league game.
September 29:
1929

Denny Stadium (now Bryant-Denny Stadium) opened on the campus of the University of Alabama.
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