Choosing your retirement savings type: Roth or traditional?
March 30, 2015
By Corinne S. Hanna Are you currently earning money? If the answer is yes, are you saving for retirement? An important part of saving for retirement is deciding…
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Remember the 1937-38 recession!
March 30, 2015By Robert Samuelson How fast should the Federal Reserve tighten monetary policy? Should it tighten at all? I recently wrote about these issues but didn’t have the space to…
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Wacko birds nesting in U.S. Senate
March 30, 2015By Kathleen Parker President Obama got it two-thirds right when he said that the delayed confirmation of his attorney general nominee, Loretta Lynch, is owing to Senate dysfunction and…
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Wordless News
March 27, 2015By Maria Fabrizio . The story here: NASA To Study A Twin In Space And His Brother On Earth . Wordless News is a project by illustrator + designer Maria Fabrizio.…
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37 Ways to Reduce Stress for a Longer, Happier Life
March 25, 2015
By Mike DuBose with Blake DuBose and Dr. Surb Guram, MD As many studies have shown, stress can lead to a wide array of physical and mental problems that…
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The State House Report – Top Three Things You Need to Know
March 23, 2015
By Ashley Hunter The Uber Bill; Addressing Road Funding and Income Tax Cuts; Internet Sales Tax Reform 1. The SC Transportation Companies Act (“the Uber Bill”), S.…
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Hollywood Box Office – Top Grossing Movies
March 23, 2015From Rentrak Week of 03/20/2015 to 03/26/2015
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Shareholder capitalism on trial
March 22, 2015
By Robert J. Samuelson The latest rap against big corporations is that they’re returning too much money to shareholders through dividends and stock repurchases. What they should be doing,…
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Hillary & the Media: Act 2016
March 22, 2015By Kathleen Parker Amid all the verbiage about Hillary Clinton’s email, one irrefutable fact emerges: Polls will drive us crazy before the Clintons do. The latest CNN/ORC poll shows…
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Is Your Job Killing You?
March 19, 2015
By Mike DuBose with Blake DuBose and Surb Guram, MD “I hate my job!” We’ve all heard it before; many of us have even said it ourselves. Most of…
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Is Your Job Killing You?
March 18, 2015By Mike DuBose with Blake DuBose and Surb Guram, MD “I hate my job!” We’ve all heard it before; many of us have even said it ourselves. Most of…
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The Friend Zone – The Dangers of Treating Employees Like Pals
March 18, 2015
By Brian Fielkow “Keep your work life and business life separate.” “Don’t get involved in your employees’ personal matters.” “There is no place for friendships in the office.” This is…
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Hollywood Box Office – Top Grossing Movies
March 16, 2015Who’s afraid of robots?
March 15, 2015By Robert Samuelson For some time, I’ve been collecting news stories about robots and jobs. By robots, I mean almost any automated process that substitutes machines for people. Here…
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Dunking the president
March 15, 2015By Kathleen Parker With a few tweaks to Scripture, herewith today’s relevant verse: What therefore President Obama hath joined together, let Republicans put asunder. The letter from 47 Republican…
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Water and Sewer
March 11, 2015By Temple Ligon Columbia City Council met Tuesday, March 10, at 10:00 a.m. for its work session, which flowed almost seamlessly into a regular council meeting. Typically council meets…
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Curiosity—The Power of Asking Questions
March 11, 2015
Dr. Leslie Pitner If you ever get the chance to stand in front of a room of seven-year-olds, you should take it! I spoke to a class of second…
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The folly of Fed bashing
March 9, 2015
By Robert Samuelson Fed bashing — strident criticism of the Federal Reserve — is back in style, and it’s taken a new turn. Traditionally, it’s been a liberal sport. When…
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The GOP: A tragedy in 52 acts
March 9, 2015By Kathleen Parker I’m getting that deja vu feeling as House Republicans these past several days have failed to alter the public’s perception that they’re incapable of governing. This…
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Hollywood Box Office – Top Grossing Movies
March 9, 2015Top Three Things You Need to Know
March 9, 2015
By Ashley Hunter Compromise Reached on Local Government Fund Bill, State Budget Includes $497 Million State Capital Improvements Bond Bill and Debate Continues Over SC State 1. After…
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HSA: The Silver Lining to High-deductible Health Plans?
March 9, 2015
By Susan A. McCants Utilizing a health savings account can be a smart way to pay for current or future healthcare expenses, or even another way to save for retirement.…
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Rogers Home a bit of contemporary history
March 6, 2015COLUMBIA, SC – All homes are unique. All homes within a city’s historic district are almost certainly so. And then there are those homes that – because of their unique…
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Mercedes-Benz Vans to Invest $500 Million in New Manufacturing Plant in Charleston County
March 6, 2015
New Plant Represents Company’s First Full Van Manufacturing Plant in North America, to Create 1,300 Jobs CHARLESTON, SC – Mercedes-Benz Vans, a division of Daimler, announced today plans to invest around…
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2015 State of the Town Address – Lexington, SC
March 3, 2015Good evening, I’m Mayor Steve MacDougall. Welcome to the State of the Town Address, an overview of our Town’s accomplishments in 2014. I want to take time to recap…
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Hollywood Box Office – Top Grossing Movies
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Family-friendly politics
March 2, 2015
By Robert Samuelson If you’re wondering what the 2016 presidential election will be about, here’s one dark-horse possibility: the family-friendly workplace. As millions of Americans struggle to balance family…
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The love litmus test
March 2, 2015By Kathleen Parker Republicans seem ceaselessly enamored of litmus tests, but the newest one — Do you believe President Obama loves America? — makes birthers seem witty. The…
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Success = Tech + Creativity
February 25, 2015
By Alan Cooper You will never guess where I took my thirteen year old teenage son and his friend the other night. The Monster Truck Rally? The home opener…
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Are You Addicted to Your Smartphone?
February 25, 2015
The Growing Threat of Technology Addiction By Mike DuBose with Blake DuBose and Surb Guram, MD Technology is booming, and advancements increase exponentially every year. Today’s smartphones, for…
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Hollywood Box Office – Top Grossing Movies
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Creating advertising that is compelling
February 23, 2015
By Ken Gasque You have heard that “truth is stranger than fiction.” But did you know that fiction is more readily believed than truth? We read Harry Potter and…
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Wow, ‘negative’ interest rates!
February 23, 2015
By Robert Samuelson To the long list of economic mysteries can now be added interest rates. They’ve been at rock bottom, as everyone knows. But now we’ve encountered something…
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The riddle of war
February 23, 2015By Kathleen Parker There’s a very 2001 feel to President Obama’s request for authorization to use military force and the nauseating sense that we’ll be at war indefinitely. Although…
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We Need to Show Our Support for the Fort
February 19, 2015By Carl Blackstone There’s been a lot of talk in the news lately about a potential 3,100 headcount reduction at Fort Jackson. You may be wondering why this important…
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City Council February 19, 2015
February 18, 2015By Temple Ligon On Tuesday afternoon, February 17, city council held its work session to hear Mike Briggs, president and CEO of the Central S. C. Alliance. Briggs was giving…
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Hollywood Box Office – Top Grossing Movies
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February 17, 2015Top Three Things You Need to Know: State Budget Bill, Business License Taxes and the Death of Ethics Reform
February 16, 2015
By Ashley Hunter 1. On Tuesday, February 17th, the members of the House Ways and Means Committee will begin their work on the State Appropriations Bill. After the Governor…
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Wireless Consumers Don’t Deserve Double Dipping Landline Tax
February 16, 2015
By Douglas Kellogg, National Taxpayers Union Policy Manager In the Palmetto State, there’s a battle brewing that could force millions of residents to pay higher taxes. Traditional landline phone…
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The great debt debate
February 16, 2015
By Robert Samuelson One of the legacies of the 2008-09 financial crisis is a world awash in debt — and this explains much of the confusion and acrimony of…
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Brian Williams’ six-mile stare
February 16, 2015By Kathleen Parker These are tough times for NBC’s Brian Williams — and tougher times for journalism. The NBC newsman was suspended Tuesday night for six months amid charges…
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National Defense Briefs – February 12, 2015
February 12, 2015
W. Thomas Smith Jr. National Defense Briefs is a series aimed at informing readers with timely military and homeland security news updates, trends, definitions, and short commentaries. Defense issues…
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Columbia City Council – February 10, 2015
February 11, 2015By Temple Ligon Council met Tuesday night at City Hall. The major contention of the night was the feasibility study on the concept of privately run water and sewer systems. The…
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Hollywood Box Office – Top Grossing Movies
February 9, 2015Fifteen Biggest Innovations in Health Tech
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Obama’s community-college gamble
February 9, 2015
By Robert Samuelson A presidential budget is more than an expression of policy. It’s also an exercise in political brand management. It aims to project the president and his administration…
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Seeking a vaccine for ignorance
February 9, 2015By Kathleen Parker Flashback: Galileo is under house arrest pondering the unyielding ignorance of The Church for refusing to consider his heliocentric proposition that the Earth circled the sun. We…
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Is your brain playing tricks on you?
February 5, 2015
By Edward W. Kramer Let’s start with a simple question: “A bat and ball cost $1.10 together. The bat costs $1 more than the ball. How much does…
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High Occupancy and Rent Growth Supports New Construction
February 4, 2015
KEY TAKEAWAYS Charleston, SC’s growing economy, thriving with low unemployment rates, a high quality of life, and a growing young population with bachelor’s degrees or higher, is contributing to…
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