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The homebuilding boom continues across the nation and in our state, with existing home inventory levels remaining very low and demand very high. When will it end? Hopefully never, says our next guest. Mike Switzer interviews Allen Hutto, CEO of the Building Industry Association of Central SC in Columbia, SC. Disclaimer: The Building Industry Association of Central SC has a business relationship with Voterheads.com, a wholly-owned company of Magnolia Media, Inc., the producer of this program.

Ever since the pandemic’s darkest days bottomed out, our state has been one of those leading the country in improving economic statistics. How is the rest of 2022 looking now that the first quarter is in the books? Mike Switzer interviews Joey Von Nessen, chief economist at the Darla Moore School of Business at USC in Columbia, SC.

Mike Switzer interviews John Warner, a serial entrepreneur and founder of Innoventure in Greenville, S.C. John relates recent feedback from listeners on the topic of creating an oversight type of commission for our state’s university endowed chair program that might become Smart State II.

“C” is for Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge. Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1932 as a wintering ground for migrating waterfowl.

Yesterday I spoke about picturesque titles of musical compositions, and I quoted Robert Schumann on what he called the “clumsiness” of taking those titles too literally. Schumann’s friend Franz Liszt, on the other hand, coined the term “program music,” and said that when a piece has a program, or story, the musical ideas should clearly reflect the unfolding of the story.

It was Beethoven who liberated the timpani from the trumpets, expanding their role and the range of notes they played, and even writing solo passages for them.

More today about the timpani, or kettledrums. The “kettle” of a kettledrum is called the “bowl,” and is made of copper or brass. The “head” of the drum,…

Imantodes cenchoa (common names: blunthead tree snake, fiddle-string snake, mapepire corde violon) is a species of rear-fanged mildly venomous snake in the Family Colubridae. The species is native to in Mexico, Central America, and South America.

A number of spring's early harbingers are now in bloom in South Carolina.

A listener finds a pile of bones in the woods. One in particular catches his attention.