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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.

“F” is for Forty-Acre Rock (Lancaster County). Forty-Acre Rock harbors one of the most diverse plant habitats in the Piedmont of South Carolina.

“C” is for Cash, Wilbur Joseph (1900-1941). Author. Cash’s masterpiece and only work, The Mind of the South sought to dispel myths of the “Old South” by tracing the pervasive influence of racism on southern history and culture. Joseph Wilbur Cash died six months later.

With the current rapid growth of our aging population, more and more adults are finding themselves caring for their parents. Our next guest says that can be a difficult world to navigate. Mike Switzer interviews Anna Gelbman Edmonds, founder of Reverse Magazine in Columbia, SC.

In case you missed it, our state was recently awarded more than $551 million from the federal government to deploy affordable and reliable high-speed internet to over 100,000 homes and small businesses across our rural communities who do not currently have that access. Mike Switzer interviews Jim Stritzinger, director of the SC Broadband Office, which is part of our state’s Office of Regulatory Staff. SCDigitalDrive.org

After founding, operating, and exiting several small businesses throughout his life, our next guest launched his current enterprise: elevated dog beds. Why? Let’s find out. Mike Switzer interviews David Prince, founder of Truman and Teddy in Greenville, SC.

“L” is for Lexington (Lexington County; 2020 population 23,554).

For two years in a row now, our next guest’s university has been named as the best in the country for veterans by the Military Times. And they weren’t even on the radar three years ago. Mike Switzer interviews Jared Evans, executive director for Veterans and Military Affairs at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC.

In this episode Ben Zeigler and Stephen Motte from the Florence County Museum in Florence, SC, talk with us about the legend of Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion. The current exhibition at the museum, Legend: Francis Marion in the Pee Dee, examines the early decades of American Independence, when poets and painters turned General Francis Marion into a mythical figure; part fact, part folk legend. Those efforts were so effective that the cultural impact of their words and images lingers today.

The Small Business Act, signed into law by President Eisenhower in 1953, created a new government agency whose mission was to promote the interests of small businesses in order to enhance competition in the marketplace. Seventy years later, the institution continues to be a valuable resource for our nation’s small business community. Mike Switzer interviews Gregg White, the SBA’s district director for South Carolina.