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We keep hearing about companies having a really hard time finding qualified employees. There simply are lots of job openings all across the country. Our next guest is trying to help with this situation by working with the business community to find careers for former prison inmates. Mike Switzer interviews Bryan Stirling, director of the South Carolina Department of Corrections in Columbia.

A listener reports on a Cub Scout field trip, during which some skeletal remains were found.

An update of the news, events and issues that are trending right now across South Carolina's business community. Mike Switzer interviews Alan Cooper, founder and editor of three online business news websites in South Carolina: MidlandsBiz, UpstateBizSC, and LowCountryBizSC. Disclaimer: Alan Cooper’s company has a business relationship with Voterheads.com, an affiliate of Magnolia Media, which is the producer of the South Carolina Business Review.

Walter Pater was an influential 19thcentury English author and critic, and in 1870 he wrote a fascinating essay about the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli.

March 21, 2023 — Comments from Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy on former President Donald Trump's pending indictment; a recap of Nikki Haley's recent presidential campaign stop in Myrtle Beach; the latest on investigations into South Carolina's Comptroller General Richard Eckstrom's $3.5 billion accounting error; and more.

When you listen to the news today, there’s no shortage of things to worry about. Both domestically and abroad investors have much to process right now and a lot of it is conflicting. Economic growth is up and down. Job growth has stayed strong though. But both consumer and business confidence are down—until recently. And, of course, the generationally-high inflation rates have been reversing —until recently, when they started higher again. What’s an investor to make of all this? Mike Switzer interviews Rob DeHollander, a certified financial planner in Greenville, SC.

Welcome to spring!

If I told you about a letter from a famous composer to his employers, a letter in which the composer complained that he needed a higher salary because he’d been making less money freelancing playing the organ at funerals, because there hadn’t been nearly enough disease going around – could you guess who the composer was?

This week Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. Millicent Peterseim about regular vision screening for children, starting in the newborn stage and throughout childhood. Dr. Peterseim is a Professor of Ophthalmology and the Chair for International Ophthalmology at Storm Eye Institute at MUSC.

Mike Switzer interviews John Warner, a serial entrepreneur and founder of Innoventure in Greenville, S.C. John talks about the recent announcement by the state of South Carolina that they will spend about $1.3 billion to assist Scout Motors, a subsidiary of Volkswagen, to locate their headquarters here.