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Latest Episodes of the SC Business Review
  • Mary Roe, executive director of Palmetto Conservation, caretakers of the Palmetto Trail, a hiking and biking trail connecting the coast to the mountains.
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    Over the past few decades, Palmetto Conservation has been busy building and maintaining the Palmetto Trail. What’s the latest on its progress, and how has it fared after two recent hurricanes?
  • Ray Wrenn, founder of The Wrenn Group in Charleston, S.C.
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    As the need for affordable housing grows, so does the classic conflict of NIMBY vs YIMBY, a.k.a. “Not in my backyard” or “Yes, in my backyard”. And all of this affects developers and their business plans.
Latest episodes of Walter Edgar's Journal
  • Bridging divides? The Arthur Ravenel Jr., Bridge in Charleston connects the peninsula with Mt. Pleasant. While the Charleston area Republican electorate varies ideologically, in general, from other parts of the state, it nevertheless is part of what makes the state party so representative of the national party.
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    This week we’ll be talking with former poet laureate of South Carolina, Marjory Wentworth about her new collection of poems entitled One River, One Boat (Evening Post Books, 2024). This collection of occasional poems and essays includes those written about heartbreaking and joyous times in South Carolina’s history and Wentworth’s own life including the deaths of relatives, gubernatorial inaugurations, the Mother Emmanuel AME massacre, Hurricane Hugo, and more.Marjory no longer lives in South Carolina, but it will be obvious in our conversation, as it is in her poetry, that she has deep roots here. And her love of the Lowcountry, as well as her deep understanding of humanity, shines through in One River, One Boat.
  • Todd Duncan (Porgy) and Anne Brown (Bess), 1935.
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    Dr. Kendra Hamilton’s book, Romancing the Gullah in the Age of Porgy and Bess, is a literary and cultural history of a place: the Gullah Geechee Coast, a four-state area that’s one of only a handful of places that can truly be said to be the “cradle of Black culture” in the United States.While there is a veritable industry of books on literary Charleston and on “the lowcountry,” there has never been a comprehensive study of the region’s literary influence, particularly in the years of the Great Migration and the Harlem (and Charleston) Renaissance. With Romancing the Gullah, Kendra Hamilton sheds new light on an only partially told tale.By giving voice to artists and culture makers on both sides of the color line, uncovering buried histories, and revealing secret connections between races amid official practices of Jim Crow, Kendra Hamilton sheds new light on an only partially told tale. Romancing the Gullah in the Age of Porgy and Bess will satisfy the book lover and the scholar.
Latest Episodes of the SC Lede
  • Senate Education Committee Chairman Greg Hembree, R-Myrtle Beach, discusses a new school voucher bill during the Dec. 10, 2024, Senate Education K-12 subcommittee hearing. A new bill, set to replace a similar law overturned by the state Supreme Court, is set to move through the Senate early next year.
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    On this episode of the South Carolina Lede for December 14, 2024: we look at why the federal government is suing South Carolina; reporter Maayan Schechter tells us of two South Carolinians among the 39 folks Biden pardoned along with nearly 1,500 people prison sentence commutations; Senate Republicans are going all-gas-no-brakes on a third attempt at a school voucher bill; and more!
  • Potential tariffs could have major impacts on South Carolina's globally connected economy. Economists this week in South Carolina are set to discuss those ramifications should President-elect Donald Trump's proposed tariffs on foreign goods come to fruition.
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    On this episode of the South Carolina Lede for December 10, 2024: we hear more from Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey on the upcoming session; two prominent South Carolinians weigh in on transgender issues in Washington; we hear about how President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs may affect South Carolina; and more!
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