March 17, 2006 RSS feed / Business

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McClatchy pays $6.5 billion for Knight Ridder

By John Temple Ligon
Sacramento-based newspaper publisher McClatchy offered to buy larger newspaper publisher Knight Ridder, parent of More...

Mortgage Survey

30-year fixed-rate US average Last week More...

Whittle wins ethics award and takes on challenger for USC board

By John Temple Ligon

At a luncheon on The Citadel campus last week the US undersecretary of transportation, Jeffery N. Shane, spoke to the Free Enterprise Foundation. More...

Greenview to host grand opening of a new gymnasium

Contributed by City of Columbia

On Saturday, March 18, 2006 at 10 am residents and neighbors of the Greenview community will open the doors to a new gymnasium at its most cherished community park and recreation center. More...

Folks About Town

Jack W. More...

Star Profile

Dr. Thomas J. Holbrook of Providence Orthopaedic & NeuroSpine Institute
By John Temple Ligon

If you%27re between ages 45 and 54, you fit into the range of the greatest lifetime opportunity for occurances of neurospine injuries. Beginning in your 30s, degenerative spine disease can start to set in. More...

Briefs

by John Temple Ligon

BMW milestone The BMW automobile manufacturing plant in Greer recently rolled out its one-millionth vehicle. The Z4 M roadster, BMW%27s millionth at the 4,500-employee facility, is being stored in the Zentrum, the plant%27s display room. More...

South Financial Group bypasses Columbia for Greenville campus

By John Temple Ligon

South Financial Group, parent of SC%27s largest independent bank Carolina First, is looking to Greenville for its new headquarters. South Financial is also parent of Mercantile Bank in FL. More...

Columbia's Wilbur Smith Associates finalist in engineering competition

By John Temple Ligon

Wilbur Smith Associates, headquartered at the corner of Gervais Street and Sumter Street, is a finalist in the American Council of Engineering Companies%27 40th annual Engineering Excellence Awards competition for designing the final segment of the N More...


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