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SC Public Radio News
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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.
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With multiple ports in South Carolina, state officials anticipate an increase in container ships coming to the state following the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore, MD.
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15-year-old lion Saied died due to multiple health issues.
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Rumors that Spartanburg Soup Kitchen would be closing got so bad, some staff couldn't always keep up with their work.
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A man who claims he lost his livelihood after being accused of kidnapping and murdering a New York teenager in South Carolina is suing the federal government.
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While gambling in South Carolina is illegal – sort of – the reality is that betting on sports isn’t difficult in the Palmetto State.
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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Two bodies were recovered from the Baltimore bridge collapse and investigators released a timeline of events. The Walt Disney Company and Gov. Ron DeSantis have settled their lawsuits.
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The Grand Alliance between Black and Jewish leaders, known largely for shared work on Civil Rights in the 1960s, has a complicated legacy--and an uncertain future between these communities.
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After a fall near the first anniversary of her beloved aunt's death, a writer explored why grief can make us less sure-footed. She found answers, climbing a precarious staircase in Italy.
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Experts say the Insurrection Act gives a president too much sweeping power to deploy troops on American soil without guard rails or proper oversight from Congress.
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Chevron operates a major refinery in Richmond, Calif. It also owns the city's dominant news site, putting its own spin on events, and runs similar sites in Texas and Ecuador.
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Prosecutors are asking for 40 to 50 years, citing the severity of Bankman-Fried's crimes. Lawyers of the disgraced former head of FTX are asking for far less.
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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.
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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