Economic Development
Developer to invest $5 million in Orangeburg Print E-mail
Wednesday, 30 January 2008
ORANGEBURG -- The Miller-Valentine Group of Dayton, Ohio, will invest $5 million to develop and build a 150,000-square-foot speculative building in Orangeburg’s fast-growing Global Logistics Triangle, company and county officials announced Tuesday. The building, which will be expandable to 300,000 square feet, will be located in the Orangeburg County/City Industrial Park.
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Insurance plans abound Print E-mail
Tuesday, 29 January 2008
COLUMBIA -- State leaders, corporate executives and medical officials are working to make health care more affordable for South Carolinians who have little or no insurance. One group, the Covering Carolina Collaborative, which consists of the state's hospital and medical associations, the S.C. Chamber of Commerce and the Carolina Alliance of Health Plans, has created a plan that addresses the uninsured and underinsured people along the Grand Strand and throughout the state. Organizers cite possible cigarette tax increases as a way to fund the plan.

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S.C. no longer shielded from economic storms Print E-mail
Monday, 28 January 2008

COLUMBIA -- Whether South Carolina suffers recession or merely slower growth this year, the state’s economy looks much different than in 2000, the last year the state was on the edge of economic decline. “Nowadays, the South Carolina economy is looking a lot more like the rest of the United States. Therefore, I would expect it to behave more like the U.S. average,” said economist Paulo Guimaraes.

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Greer air a selling point Print E-mail
Thursday, 24 January 2008

GREER -- A potential economic development crisis for Greer and the rest of the Upstate may have been averted in the short term with the success of initiatives to reduce ground-level ozone. The state health department asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to designate the Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson area as having complied with the Clean Air Act.

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Groups submit report Print E-mail
Thursday, 24 January 2008
FLORENCE -- Opponents of Santee Cooper’s proposed Pee Dee Energy Campus banded together to send their message to S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control officials: a coal plant is not needed in the Pee Dee. They submitted a letter and an analysis to DHEC detailing the damage the plant could cause to the environment, the day after Pee Dee Supporters for Progress announced its formation.

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