Join host SC Lede host Gavin Jackson and special guests for an in-depth discussion of the issues our state legislature will face in the new year.
South Carolina News
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2024 had a series of weather extremes and once in a lifetime events. Here is a look back at the top weather events of 2024.
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The top corners of the U.S. will experience the most active weather at the end of 2024 and start the New Year. But the frigid air will sink southward and arrive in South Carolina. When and how cold?
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A potent storm system with a history of producing severe weather is headed across South Carolina starting early Sunday
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In recent years, college professors have been sounding the alarm about a decline in students’ reading abilities. Many educators report that even highly motivated students are struggling to comprehend and analyze complex texts.
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A third endangered whale has been spotted entangled in fishing gear off the East Coast, marking an alarming end to the year for a species threatened with extinction.
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Santa is brining a bevy of weather as his sleigh slides across the US next week.
Latest Episodes of the SC Business Review
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Today, hear part nine of an excerpt from the most recent University of South Carolina Darla Moore School of Business Economic Outlook Conference, featuring Cheryl Richards, CEO, Catapult Employers Association.
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Listen to part eight of an excerpt from the most recent University of South Carolina Darla Moore School of Business Economic Outlook Conference, featuring Cheryl Richards, CEO, Catapult Employers Association.
Latest episodes of Walter Edgar's Journal
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This time out we’ll be talking with Tracey Todd, the Director of Museums for the Historic Charleston Foundation, and Andrew Agha, an archaeologist working on the site of the Nathaniel Russell house, a National Historic Landmark on Meeting Street. We’ll be talking about the Foundation’s most recent preservation initiative which involves the kitchen house, an ancillary structure that included a kitchen, laundry, and living quarters for the enslaved.
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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.
Latest Episodes of the SC Lede
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On this special holiday episode of the South Carolina Lede for December 24, 2024: our “Hot or Not” 2025 list episode, a cultivated list of the hottest trends you need to be ready for in 2025, and the ones you can leave behind!
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On this episode of the South Carolina Lede for December 21, 2024: our full interview with USC Research Economist Dr. Joey Von Nessen, recapping the economic year of 2024 and previewing 2025.
More Local and National News
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The pair led the congressional committee that investigated the Jan. 6 , 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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The attack in New Orleans left at least 15 people dead and dozens more injured. Here's what we know so far about the driver who plowed through the crowd. And, Amazon workers return to the office.
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Many restaurants -- even the high-end ones -- are ditching dress codes for diners.
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NPR's Leila Fadel asks the president of the local chapter of the Service Employees International Union about why the team is dropping an effort to unionize.
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Researchers have probed the genetics of one of Australia's most elusory animals, the marsupial mole.
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A gunman who fatally shot at least 12 people, including two children, in Montenegro has killed himself while surrounded by police, officials said Thursday.
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Lights returned to households as well as to Puerto Rico's hospitals, water plants and sewage facilities after the massive outage that exposed the persistent electricity problems plaguing the island.
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In the early hours of New Year's Day, a truck rammed into crowds on the French Quarter's heavily foot-trafficked street. Police are looking into whether the suspect had ties to any terror groups.
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The items were found in the Cybertruck that exploded outside President-elect Donald Trump's hotel on Wednesday, killing a suspect in the vehicle and sparking an investigation into possible terrorism.
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The new kickoff time for the game between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the Georgia Bulldogs is 3:00 p.m. CT on Thursday, according to the Sugar Bowl as of Wednesday evening.
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