 Gather up your spare change. Cash-strapped states across the nation are turning to pay-as-you-go toll roads to fund the upgrade and expansion of aging and overtaxed interstates and highways.
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 The situation facing many South Carolina hospitals has all the signs of an unhealthy diagnosis: 6.6% of state residents are unemployed; more than 19% are uninsured; costs keep rising; nurses and physicians are in short supply; and state and federal dollars barely, if at all, cover the actual cost of care for Medicare and Medicaid patients.
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 A gleaming hurricane-proof tower rises in Charleston. A children’s hospital focused on one-stop family care emerges in Columbia. These aren’t the hospitals of tomorrow, but a slice of what’s happening in South Carolina right now.
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 “Sixteen, please.” Giving an order laced with a Southern drawl, Bill McCall Jr. directed the elevator operator seated atop a five-gallon bucket to take him to the top of the boiler tower, a critical piece of the fourth power unit under construction at Santee Cooper’s coal-fired facility in rural Cross. Donning hard hats and safety goggles, McCall, who is Santee Cooper’s chief operating officer, and two of his senior-level colleagues stepped out onto the open-planked structure.
From this vantage point, some 238 feet up in the air, heaps of coal below look like dark rolling hills.
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 Campbell Cox began farming rice as a lark. He began 10 years ago with 10 acres just to see if he and his partners could produce the crop. They harvested enough to give away as Christmas gifts to family and friends. “The thing is, they wanted more, so it started taking off,” said Cox
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 Hunting and fishing have always been a part of life in South Carolina, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that revenue generated from the sports ranks the Palmetto State as one of the top 10 in the nation. “Hunting and Fishing: Bright Stars of the American Economy — A Force as Big as All Outdoors” was produced by the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation with support from the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, National Marine Manufacturers Association, National Shooting Sports Foundation and SCI-First For Hunters. The report highlights the impact those groups have on the economy at the national and state levels.
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 Wading through a six-foot-high field of switchgrass at Clemson University’s Pee Dee Research and Education Center, Jim Frederick smiles as he points out the ease of growing the thick stand of thin brown reeds rustling in the winter afternoon. “It doesn’t require a lot of input. You plant it once. It’s very competitive,” Frederick said from the grassfield at the Florence-Darlington county line.
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Henry Elliott Sr. started farming tobacco when he was 14 years old, the same age at which he quit smoking it. His father farmed. His grandfather farmed. His father died when Elliott was 6. His grandfather died four years later.
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