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Tuesday, 18 December 2007 |
 A scan of the shelves in Charleston’s Home Grown Grocer won’t yield Hormel Bacon or Quaker Instant Grits. Instead, owner Tamlyn Willard stocks grits and flour from Columbia’s Anson Mills, ham and bacon from Caw Caw Creek Fine Pastured Pork in St. Matthews and fresh eggs and vegetables from Green Grocer Farms on Johns Island. In fact, everything in the store is grown, raised or produced in South Carolina.
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Tuesday, 18 December 2007 |
 For years, Lavone Holbert drowned in debt. Struggling to raise her children by herself and pay for her own education, she lost control of her finances, plummeting in a downward spiral. She was $35,000 in debt and even though she worked full-time as a nurse, she watched her paychecks disappear before they ever settled into her bank account. She racked up credit card debt, but a significant portion of what Holbert owed was to payday lenders.
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Monday, 08 October 2007 |
 The latest efforts to bring some measure of wind power to the Palmetto State are under way with the construction of two wind monitoring stations, one in the Grand Strand area and one in North Charleston. Both stations are part of a project that will determine the feasibility of using wind power to generate commercially viable electricity.
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Monday, 08 October 2007 |
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The extra 10 million gallons of water needed daily to support two booming North Carolina bedroom communities outside Charlotte, N.C., isn’t likely to leave South Carolina high and dry, at least not anytime soon, even though the two states share access to the Catawba River basin. But you might call South Carolina’s lawsuit against North Carolina a “matter of principle,” said Jeff Allen, director ...
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Monday, 08 October 2007 |
 Haddrell Street in Mount Pleasant, where the smell of fresh seafood fills the nostrils, Wayne Magwood is staring down reality. He can make a decent living shrimping, and selling the day’s catch from the shop he runs, C.A. Magwood & Sons Inc. Fresh Seafood.
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