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SC Public Radio News
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How to prepare for the 2024 solar eclipse in the Palmetto State.
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While meant to ensure South Carolina avoids future energy crises, critics claim the bill gives electric utility companies a “blank check” to build mega-projects financed by rate-payers.
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The hope is that an improved experience may attract more young donors by relieving anxiety some feel about giving blood.
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Possible relief is on the way for drivers who sit through bottlenecks from South Carolina into Savannah.
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Charleston Mayor William Cogswell begins to confront flooding, sea level rise and affordable housing during his first three months in office.
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South Carolina lawmakers want to make the state's top financial accountant, called the comptroller general, an appointed position rather than elected. But first they need approval from voters.
Latest Episodes of the SC Business Review
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The labor market has been tight for some time now and our next guest says it has become very challenging for nonprofit organizations.
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The transportation industry continues to be the target for reducing the effects of climate change. Our next guest says that if the railroads want to eliminate their carbon footprint, they must decarbonize line haul locomotives.
Latest episodes of Walter Edgar's Journal
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On the Journal this week we will be talking with Robert James Fichter about his book, Tea: Consumption, Politics, and Revolution, 1773–1776.Fitcher says that despite the so-called Boston Tea Party in 1773, two large shipments of tea from the East India Company survived and were ultimately drunk in North America. Their survival shaped the politics of the years ahead, impeded efforts to reimburse the company for the tea lost in Boston Harbor, and hinted at the enduring potency of consumerism in revolutionary politics.
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This week we talk with Claudia Smith Brinson about her new book, Injustice in Focus: The Civil Rights Photography of Cecil Williams (2023, USC Press). Claudia's rich research, interviews, and prose, offer a firsthand account of South Carolina's fight for civil rights and tells the story of Cecil Williams's life behind the camera. The book also features eighty of William’s photographs.Cecil Williams is one of the few Southern Black photojournalists of the civil rights movement. Born and raised in Orangeburg, South Carolina, Williams worked at the center of emerging twentieth-century civil rights activism in the state, and his assignments often exposed him to violence perpetrated by White law officials and ordinary citizens. Williams's story is the story of the civil rights era.
Latest Episodes of the SC Lede
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On this episode of the South Carolina Lede for March 26, 2024: we catch up with House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Bruce Bannister; we check out what earmarks Sen. Lindsey Graham secured in the recently approved federal budget; we have a report from Victoria Hansen on North Charleston's new mayor, Reggie Burgess; and more!
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On this episode of the South Carolina Lede for March 23, 2024: we catch up with Jeffrey Collins with the Associated Press and Joe Bustos with The State newspaper to discuss news from the Statehouse; we look at the latest Fed decision to hold interest rates steady; we get a report from Scott Morgan on evictions in the state; and more!
More Local and National News
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The sentence marks a stunning fall for the 32-year-old former crypto executive who was once seen as the future of finance.
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Kemmerer, Wyo., is on the front line of America's energy transition, with its coal plant slated to close and a nuclear plant in the works. But some think the rush to quit fossil fuels is impractical.
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Women who are pregnant or who have recently given birth in Gaza face serious challenges amid daily airstrikes, continued ground fighting, high rates of disease and a growing lack of food and water.
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The Key Bridge collapse is upending life for countless people in the Chesapeake region. Residents say it's not just infrastructure — it's their identity as people who live close to the water.
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Alexandra Tanner's debut novel, Worry, centers two sisters in their 20s struggling with the love, anxieties and truths that they hold about each other.
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The deadly Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse blocked off much of Baltimore's harbor, which handles more cars and trucks than any other U.S. port. Companies have some options to keep imports coming.
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Disney and a board appointed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis have settled lawsuits over who controls development in the 40-square-mile district that's home to its Orlando theme parks.
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A California judge found that attorney John Eastman committed "exceptionally serious ethical violations" in his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election and recommended disbarment.
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A federal appeals panel says mailed ballots arriving on time but in envelopes without dates handwritten by Pennsylvania voters shouldn't be counted. This case is expected to reach the Supreme Court.
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As Al Gore's running mate in 2000, Lieberman became the first Jewish candidate on a presidential ticket of one of the two major parties. He later became an independent and was a leader of No Labels.
South Carolina Public Radio will deepen its engagement with communities across the Palmetto State this year in an initiative called America Amplified Election 2024.
New programs are coming to SC Public Radio's schedules.
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