State Needs To Ramp Up Its Commitment To Small Businesses

With all of the big news in late June about $1 billion in new foreign investment in South Carolina, it’s time for the state to pay more attention to the little guy and small businesses. The new state budget includes $40 million as a “closing fund” to seal deals with...

Schools Need To Focus On Career Counseling

The administration of Governor Mark Sanford presented the Education and Economic Development Act (EEDA), which was adopted by the South Carolina General Assembly in 2005. The legislation required students to develop career plans starting in 8th grade and to do annual...

We All Scream For Gelato

Earlier this year, Kelly Chu, co-owner of one of West Ashley’s favorite and most-lauded restaurants, Red Orchids, shocked the gelato world by taking first place in a national competition for the best iced dessert in the country. Chu was competing against a raft of...

High Recommended

When the editors at USA Today wondered which attraction in each state could properly be called top-rated, they turned to TripAdvisor, the highly respected travel review website with more than 315 million members and more than 500 million reviews and opinions of...

Mug Shots

The following were taken from actual incident reports filed last week by the City of Charleston Police Department. These are not convictions and the names of businesses, complainants, and suspects have been left out to protect the innocent. All suspects are  innocent...

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