April 24, 2009 RSS feed / Business

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George Little, residential contractor

Star Profile
By John Temple Ligon temple@thecolumbiastar.com
Once residential construction can be mastered, and once skills and the building business meet in a successful venture, the contractor can either develop properties for rent and resale or the contractor can competitively bid and win work from other More...

Folks about town

Polly Howser, Katie Rama, and Wi l liam F. "Bi l ly" Cave have been elected to the Board of Directors of the South Carolina State Museum Foundation. More...

Midlands Tech offers nuclear training

Contributed by Midlands Technical College

In a new economy that stresses the importance of new technologies and job creation to lead the country toward energy independence, Midlands Technical College developed a new program to train students to become nuclear operator technicians. More...

Illinois, at least, pursues ethics violations

Story and Photo by John Temple Ligon temple@thecolumbiastar.com

In the first week of December 2008, federal prosecutors said Illinois Governor Rod R. Blagojevich "brazenly put up for sale his appointment of Barack Obama's successor in the U.S. Senate," according to reports in The New York Times. More...

Briefs

by John Temple Ligon

Georgia: 13; North Carolina: 13; South Carolina: 1 Fortune magazine compiles its list of the country's largest businesses based on financial performance, focusing on revenue. More...

Rotary helps immunize 118,000

Columbia Rotary Club Polio Plus Campaign Chairman Jerry D. Pate, MPA (center) announces at the April 13 meeting that the club has raised $74,001.21 for Rotary International's Polio Eradication campaign. More...

Youths named semi- finalists in Community Service Recognition Program

Contributed by Wendy Bain

Alesha Hudson, nine- years- old of Lugoff and Margaret Deans Fawcett, 17- years- old of Columbia, S.C., have been named semi- finalists in the 2009 search for Huggable Heroes®. More...


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