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An update of the news, events and issues that are trending right now across South Carolina's business community. Mike Switzer interviews Jason Thomas, executive editor of SCBizNews, the company that publishes the Columbia Regional Business Report, Charleston Regional Business Journal, GSA Business and SCBizNews magazine.

This week Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. Kelli Williams about environmental and seasonal allergies in children. Dr. Williams is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and a pediatrician specializing in allergies, asthma and immunology conditions at MUSC Children’s Health.

Herrick Brown is the new curator of the A C Moore Herbarium at the University of South Carolina, taking over from our friend Dr. John – a k a Dr. John Nelson. Fasciation was the feature of some specimens Herrick brought to Making It Grow recently – a weird type of plant growth when the something goes awry in the apical meristem – the specialized group of cells at the tip of a plant –and instead of elongating they flatten out and divide.

Performers and performances come and go, but what lasts is the music.

“H” is for Hartsville (Darlington County; 2020 population 7,562). Hartsville owes its existence to Captain Thomas Hart of Society Hill, who purchased much of the original town site in 1812.

Cello students everywhere have struggled with Popper’s “High School of Cello Playing,” a book of études that’s a kind of Mount Everest of cello technique.

Many stock market analysts and economists continue to predict an economic slowdown later this year, maybe even a recession. So let’s check in with one of our resident economists to get his thoughts. Mike Switzer interviews Bruce Yandle, Dean Emeritus at the College of Business & Behavioral Science and Alumni Professor of Economics Emeritus, both at Clemson University. He is also the Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center which publishes his Economic Situation Report.

“J” is for Johnson, William Woodward (1931-2017). Banker. Johnson rose to chairman of the executive committee of Bank of America and was a director of the corporation.

This week Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. Mary Hart Bryan about the importance of strong social connections in the older adult years, and the impact on health and wellbeing. Dr. Bryan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and a geriatric psychiatrist at MUSC.

The forest tent caterpillar moth (Malacosoma disstria) is a moth found throughout North America, especially in the eastern regions. Unlike related tent caterpillar species, the larvae of forest tent caterpillars do not make tents, but rather, weave a silky sheet where they lie together during molting.