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SC Entrepreneurial Update from "The Swampfox"

An update of the news and issues facing the entrepreneurial community in South Carolina.Mike Switzer interviews John Warner is co-founder of Accessible…

SC Entrepreneurial Insights from John Warner

Mike Switzer interviews John Warner, a serial entrepreneur whose insights are published online at Medium under the title “Control Your Destiny”. He is…

A Raccoon Can Help Persimmon Seeds Germinate

A listener finds some scat containing Persimmon seeds and asks Rudy for the animal's ID. It turns out that a trip through a Raccoon's disgestive tract can…

Long-Tail Skipper

The long-tailed skipper (Urbanus proteus) is a spread-winged skipper butterfly found throughout tropical and subtropical South America, south to Argentina…

Cicada Killer Wasps

Adult eastern cicada-killer wasps are large, 1.5 to 5.0 centimetres (0.6 to 2.0 in) long, robust wasps with hairy, reddish and black areas on the thorax…

Hickory Horned Devil

The caterpillars for the regal moth are called hickory horned devils. Citheronia regalis, the regal moth or royal walnut moth, is a North American moth in…

Derrick Slaughter attends a July 14, 2017, march through the streets of Norwalk, Ohio, against the epidemic of heroin, with his grandmother (not shown). Both of Derrick's parents are heroin addicts and he is now being raised by his grandparents.

Poll: Rural Americans Rattled By Opioid Epidemic; Many Want Government Help

A poll by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health finds opioid abuse a top issue for rural Americans.

Eminem on stage during the 2024 NFL Draft on April 25, 2024 in Detroit, Mich.

Eminem breaks Taylor Swift’s 12-week run atop the album chart

Every album the rapper has released since 2000 has hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) extends his streak. Also: Shaboozey returns to the top of the singles chart.

Charleston Republican Sen. Sandy Senn speaks against the near-total abortion ban bill on April 26, 2023 in the S.C. Senate. Despite Republicans having a 30-seat majority in the chamber, the group was again unable to reach the 26 votes necessary to end a filibuster and pass the bill H. 3774. A six-week abortion ban bill, S. 374, previously passed the Senate in February, but has not been taken up by the House which insists on its bill that would ban abortion from the moment of conception onward with limited exceptions.

SC Lede: Abortion Debate Deja Vu

April 29, 2023 — The state Senate's failed attempt to pass a near-total abortion ban bill; updates from the 2024 presidential campaign trail; a school voucher bill is headed to Gov. Henry McMaster's desk; and more.

Security barriers surround the Capitol as snow falls ahead of a joint session of Congress to certify the votes from the Electoral College in the presidential election in Washington, Monday, Jan. 6, 2025.

New Year, Get Ready!

On this episode of the South Carolina Lede for January 7, 2025: we catch you up on some of the Congressional drama kicking off the 119th congress; there’s early voting for a special election primary in one Lowcountry House district; reporter Scott Morgan speaks with Faith Fuller, whose parents created Habitat for Humanity, which became inextricably linked to the late 39th President Jimmy Carter; and more!

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