Mark McCarter

Capital idea: Spirit of cooperation with legislative delegation benefits Huntsville

As most of the state was idling in a deep freeze in mid-January, Alabama’s lawmakers were meeting in Montgomery for...

District 2 outlook: Assuring connection and recreation for residents

In the coming days, City Blog will take a look at what’s in store in 2018 in each of the...

HUBZone companies finding The Catalyst to write more success stories

She was a single mom who landed a job as a part-time receptionist. Now, she’s working full-time as the HR...

District 4 2018 outlook: Turning the old into new again

In the coming days, City Blog will take a look at what’s in store in 2018 in each of the...

District 3 2018 outlook: Roadwork milestones, new-look for Ditto Landing

In the coming days, City Blog will take a look at what’s in store in 2018 in each of the...

Toyota-Mazda announcement greeted enthusiastically by community leaders

It was 190 miles away from the epicenter, but the celebration was no less enthusiastic. One hundred or so community...

Lessons learned in loss pay dividends as Huntsville lands Toyota-Mazda

Out of loss came victory. Out of loss came lessons and patience and perseverance. Out of loss came the right...

BIG Picture impact: Toyota-Mazda project meets master plan vision

As Dennis Madsen, Huntsville’s Manager of Long-Range Planning put it, “A decade ago we had already started doing master-planning for...

Raising the bar: How Huntsville fosters an exceptional and growing workforce

Six years ago, Mayor Tommy Battle watched with amazement a robotics demonstration at a Huntsville middle school, with the students...

Huntsville police officer makes life-saving effort through stem cell donation

With no fanfare and little effort, Karl Kissich went through a simple registration process and “totally forgot about it for...