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Tuesday, 18 December 2007 |
 As in 2002, nature devastated the crop. There was the combination of a hot, dry summer followed by three tropical systems. This year, it was the long period of dry, hot weather, he said. While nature is taking its toll on one of the state’s major crops, its dominion also has been challenged by globalization. And in many cases, farmers are growing higher-value commodity crops like wheat instead of cotton. Baxley, whose business includes farming, ginning and warehousing cotton for both his farms and for other farms, said farmers across the state are sustaining huge losses.
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Tuesday, 18 December 2007 |
 “Oh, to be 45 rather than 65 today,” said Dean, owner of Dean’s LTD, an Orangeburg haberdashery that specializes in men’s and big and tall fashions and does a brisk business in tuxedo rentals and choir robes. “I’d probably be investing in some local real estate right about now.” What Dean and many others are anticipating is the arrival of Jafza International’s planned investment of $600 million in the area to develop a logistics, distribution and light manufacturing complex on 1,300 acres at the crossroads of U.S. Highway 301 and Interstate 95. The development is expected to employ up to 10,000 when completed.
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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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