April 18, 2008 RSS feed / Business

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S.C. Chamber sponsors Global Business Forum

By John Temple Ligon temple@thecolumbiastar.com
The S.C. Global Business Forum was held Tuesday, April 15, in the convention center on Lincoln Street. Well attended, the affair's morning program included addresses by Joe Taylor, secretary of commerce, and Columbia Mayor Bob Coble. More...

Folks about town

Janie Williamson and Karen Williford have been welcomed by The AD Company as new team members. Barbara Ayers, Edward McDowell, Steve Robinson, and Doris Tucker have been honored with leadership awards from Verizon Wireless. More...

Briefs

by John Temple Ligon

Black admissions down at USC According to the USC Gamecock, in 2000, 18.7 percent of undergraduates were black students. In 2007, black students were 12.5 percent of the total undergraduate population, down by 32 percent. More...

Jeff Helsley of Goatfeathers and Art Bar

Star Profile
Story and Photo by John Temple Ligon

When Goatfeathers in Five Points was conceived in 1980, there was not much like it in Columbia. There was something similar in Washington, New York, and New Orleans, where Goatfeathers' owner Jeff Helsley found his favorite bars. More...

Asking questions never hurts when someone asks for medical and financial information

Contributed by the Lt. Governor's Office on Aging

Question: My mother called me the other day wanting to know what I thought about a great program that an insurance agent called her about. More...


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