Financial Specialist Shares Ways to Help Your Child While Protecting Your Retirement June 14, 2013 – From $20,000 to $65,000 a year – that’s the tuition cost for one year…

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      Click here for the post of the week.       About Maria Fabrizio   Each weekday, Maria’s love for news and habit of predawn doodling converge…

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By Temple Ligon June 14, 2013  This Friday afternoon, June 14 at six inside the Capital City Club, the Wren Institute for Urban Research will discuss the architecture of Thomas…

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By Jan Pinnington June 14, 2013 Healthy Hands Cooking   Soooo simple to make!  We lined muffin tins with a slice of ham and then cracked an egg into each…

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By Kevin Hyde June 13, 2013  More patronizing of a large, highly influential corporation than a Chamber of Commerce … as predictable as an ’80s cover band … and about…

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By Ron Aiken June 14, 2013 The Best Coffeehouse in Columbia/The World If there’s anything I love more than Drip Coffee in Five Points (and, to a lesser degree, it’s…

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By Tracie Broom Partner, Flock and Rally: Events + Communications for a Brave New South June 14, 2013 Last week, my business partner and I left town for our PR…

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  Advice from Debby and Jerry on Dating in a New World  June 14, 2013   Q-Dear Debby and Jerry, I’m back to online dating after several years and a…

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By Brian Maynor June 14, 2013 It’s June and wedding season is in full swing.  If you have not already participated or attended an outdoor wedding, undoubtedly you will before…

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By Cathy Rigg Monetti TheDailyGrace June 14, 2013   I feel I owe you a good post, what with pulling that subscribe to my blog move on Sunday. (Thank you…

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June 13, 2013 Kristal Cheshire likes to say she did it backwards when it comes to diet and exercise. While many people change what they eat then integrate a workout,…

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By Tom Poland June 14, 2013     There’s something about being a writer that leads people to confide in me. Think about that. Why tell a writer, a person who…

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By Kristen Tice, MS, RD, CSSD, LD June 12, 2013 Nowadays it seems that almost everyplace you go to eat has some item being advertised with Avocado as the selling…

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By Temple Ligon June 7, 2013  When I ran for Mayor of Columbia in 1990, my #1 issue on the campaign trail was Columbia’s bus system. I had done my…

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By Cathy Rigg Monetti TheDailyGrace June 7, 2013   I’ve come to believe it is the most important thing of all, having a big open heart. It’s the only way…

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By Kaitlin Ohlinger, CSW General Manager, Cellar on Greene June 7, 2013 Known to Twitterati as @winesnobsc, Kaitlin Ohlinger runs the show at one of the best-kept dining secrets in…

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Getting My Kicks On Highway 76 By Tom Poland June 7, 2013  And the taillights dissolve, in the coming of night … Sensing too well when the journey is done.…

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Robert Sox June 7, 2013      Wine drinkers are passionate people, probably in life too, but certainly when selecting and drinking wine. Sometimes a glass of wine is just a glass…

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By Brian Maynor June 7, 2013  It’s 5:30 on Friday. You just met your last weekly deadline, and have 30 minutes to meet your date.  Do you panic and simply run…

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By Ron Aiken June 7, 2013 New App Brings S.C. Food, Chefs, Farms to Your Phone! I like to be a helpful sort. I especially like to be a helpful…

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Click here for the post of the week.       About Maria Fabrizio   Each weekday, Maria’s love for news and habit of predawn doodling converge for an editorial…

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By Jan Pinnington June 6, 2013 Healthy Hands Cooking These super easy, super tasty lasagna roll ups are packed with nutritious ingredients that kids love to make and eat. Spinach…

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Advice from Debby and Jerry on Dating in a New World  June 6, 2013   Q-Dear Debby and Jerry, I am a 62-year old man who has been on an…

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By Ron Aiken May 31, 2013 In which Chomp! decides which is the best commercially available pimento cheese in Columbia, if not the world, because dangit, why can’t we be…

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  By Cathy Rigg Monetti TheDailyGrace May 31, 2013   The sun rose and we headed out, eager to enjoy this glorious day in the yard. Tim launched the let’s…

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Advice from Debby and Jerry on Dating in a New World May 31, 2013   Q-Dear Debby and Jerry, I am not interested in on-line dating, as I am happily…

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Ricky Mollohan Chef/Owner, Mr. Friendly’s, Cellar on Greene & Solstice Kitchen May 31, 2013 Ricky Mollohan is one of Columbia’s most outspoken, sustainability-minded chefs. His 3 kitchens put revenue in…

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By Kristen Meetze Capital Kitchen & Bath May 31, 2013 Tired of your kitchen? But not quite ready for a major overhaul?  There are tons of great ideas out there!…

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By Jan Pinnington May 31, 2013 Healthy Hands Cooking These fruit kebabs are as much fun to make as they are to eat!  Fruit can be cut using sturdy disposable…

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  Maria Fabrizio May 31, 2013 One headline per day, vowel and consonant free.       Click here for the post of the week.       About Maria…

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By Tom Poland May 31, 2013    It Was Good Enough For Folks Like Annie I left the Empire State of the South the day after Mother’s Day and headed…

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By Temple Ligon May 31, 2013  South Carolina has competent and accomplished marketing representatives in Europe and Asia to hustle industrialists interested in cheap land and right-to-work labor. And back…

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By Brian Maynor May 30, 2013 Living in the world of constant communication means we never seem to get away from work, even on the weekends.  We see clients and…

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By Kevin Hyde May 31, 2013 It was 1991 and the rock band R.E.M. had just completed its seventh and, what would become, its most commercially successful album. Throughout the…

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[Part four of a series, TOMAHAWKS TO TALIBAN-HUNTERS, about S.C.’s unique military heritage and tradition] By W. Thomas Smith Jr. BURIED BENEATH A STRETCH OF GROUND ON A RIDGE ABOVE…

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Advice from Debby and Jerry on Dating in a New World May 24, 2013 Q-Dear Debby and Jerry, I’ve met a man through one of the dating sites and we seem…

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By Ron Aiken May 24, 2013 Farm Fresh Vegetables + History + Irmo = Get In Your Car For a Southerner, there is nothing in the world so wonderful as…

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By Reba Hull Campbell May 23, 2013 Yesterday marked the 30th anniversary of my first day in the work world. On May 23, 1983, I walked into 128 Cannon House…

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Maria Fabrizio May 24, 2013 One headline per day, vowel and consonant free.     Click here for the post of the week.   Click here for the Wordless News.…

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By Jan Pinnington May 9, 2013 Healthy Hands Cooking If your family loves the flavor of Buffalo hot wings but want to avoid the fat and calories, try these super…

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By Cathy Rigg Monetti TheDailyGrace May 24, 2013   Here is my process for choosing a grocery store checkout lane. 1.    Consider the length of the lines, of course. 2.   …

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By Kevin Hyde May 24, 2013 It has been debated with the kind of partisan rancor that would make those inside the Beltway blush, but one of the defining differences…

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By Temple Ligon May 24, 2013 A few years ago in the Charlotte Observer an article appeared on the Rhode Island School of Design, aka RISD (pronounced RIZDEE). RISD officials…

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Shawn Ghent, M.D., FCCP has been practicing pulmonary medicine—the study of lung and breathing disorders—for over 20 years. Recently, though, he became a patient himself. Last September, the College of…

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By Ghost Gardener Columbia, SC May 24, 2013 I planned for this article to be about container gardening, and I will work this in, but recent personal experiences have converged…

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Andrew White Executive Chef, Tombo Grille May 24, 2013 Forest Acres’ Tombo Grille takes the neighborhood bistro concept to the next level by using sustainably produced, SC foods and hosting…

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By Mike DuBose with Blake DuBose May 24, 2013 No one wants to talk about depression, yet at some point in life, most of us either experience it ourselves or…

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By Tom Poland May 23, 2013 For me a moody summer day parched for rain resurrects memories of dirt roads. One old dirt road from yesteryear comes alive as if…

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By Temple Ligon May 16, 2013 In the past two weeks there have been two articles on the feasibility of a passenger rail system in South Carolina. First was the…

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By Kristen Meetze Capital Kitchen & Bath May 17, 2013 So you are finally ready to remodel? Whether your kitchen or bath project takes 2 weeks or 2 months, you…

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