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On Thursday, October 16, over 250 Edens & Avant employees weren't working real estate deals. Instead, in what was themed "Operation: Footprint," these employees made an impression in their communities by picking up trash, painting pumpkins with hospitalized children, pulling weeds, roofing Habitat houses, stocking food, painting children's cottages, More ... Too many newspapers and too few shareholders The McClatchy Company, owner of The State and The Charlotte Observer and 28 other dailies in the U.S., reached an agreement recently with its lenders to prevent a technical default. The new agreement to pay higher interest rates and to put up more collateral reflects sustained reductions in revenue. More ... A career as a stockbroker was Frank Ellington's original intent as a finance major in college. But if architecture graduates can become journalists, finance majors can become hoteliers for pet dogs. Ellington owns and operates Camp Bow Wow on Taylor Street, a downtown hotel for dogs. More ... Mayor of the City of Columbia, Mr. Rober t Coble, and Distinguished President Emeritus of the University of South Carolina, Dr. Andrew Sorensen, have been named as the Columbia World Affairs Council's 2008 Global Vision Award recipients. More ... S.C. State Senator Yancey McGill (Democrat - District 32 - Florence, Georgetown, Horry, and Williamsburg Counties), chair of the Senate Film Subcommittee, had to delay debate over the Film Incentive Bill (#4815) scheduled for last Friday, Oct. 17. The state's revenue stream was found trickling at a reduced flow, and $488 million had to be taken out of the current budget. More ... |
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