Wade on Birmingham

Wade on May 2008

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Then and now

Meet the new owners: Birmingham-based construction/engineering firm BE&K will have a new owner. KBR, a Houston-based construction/engineering contractor, will buy the homegrown company for $550 million. In fact, KBR has now completed the deal.

BE&K has a reputation as a family-friendly workplace, but what do we know about KBR? So glad you asked …

And we all paid for it.

Metro music mix: Ah, a busy month for music festivals and events, including …

Talk about your cultural diversity. No, seriously, talk about it.

Perpetual gridlock: Forbes said what we knew all along. Birmingham has the worst commute among small cities.

With gas prices at an all-time high, the Birmingham-Jefferson County Transit Authority has received more than 4,000 calls a month this year. But ridership remains flat. Why? For starters, the neglected system has routes that don’t match customer demand. Old buses break down, and those that do work run inadequate schedules.

Kids, you can always hitch.

Haiku flashback

coffeehouse, inc. [May 29]

Everything smells like
dark Colombian roast and
capitalist grind.

More haiku.

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