GUEST COLUMNIST PROFILE

The Conference Board’s index of leading indicators (LEI) has been falling steadily since December 2021. The index anticipates turning points in the business cycle by around 10 months.  Based on this steep slide the Conference ... Read More

As we closed out 2022, many of us were reflecting on the year behind us and anticipating the next. With market indicators ever present in the news cycle — yield curve, GDP, the omnipresent “R” word — one would thi... Read More

I have spent much of my career in the search for great talent, both in boutique recruiting firms and in-house with a large public accounting firm. I consider it a privilege to spend my working hours helping the right candidates and right... Read More

Experts say we have yet to reach the peak of the coronavirus pandemic that has most of society sheltering in place and so much of our industries and businesses idle. The effects of this economic turmoil is headlined by the record num... Read More

Last month, we discussed ideas on how to manage a business and a workplace amid a pandemic.  This month, we discuss opening up your business and returning employees to the workplace, from remote locations, furlough (unpaid leave of ... Read More

Kids grow up hearing, “If you can dream it, you can do it!” So long as they go to elementary, middle and high school, then graduate from college, of course. Once they do that, they should be unstoppable, right? Wrong. O... Read More

Labor Day, to many of us, is the reason for a long weekend at the end of the summer. But the day has greater importance than hamburgers on the grill and family gathered to enjoy them. Labor Day celebrates the contributions of American wo... Read More

Entrepreneurs built America.  In commerce, and in politics, they embraced new, innovative ideas and looked beyond the status quo to new opportunities and possibilities.  Charleston prospered as a seaport because it offere... Read More

As we kick off Infrastructure Week 2018, this year’s key message, “The future won’t wait, neither can we,” is aligned with the Trump administration’s recent messages and plan for the dire need for infrastruc... Read More

For the past two years, Summerville has engaged consultants and staff in a project to overhaul our zoning ordinances. The intent is to clarify, simplify and rationalize the town’s expectations for homeowners, builders and developer... Read More

Please go on a quick journey with me: Just imagine that for every second it takes to read the first paragraph of this column, a cherry-red Tesla Roadster is moving seven miles closer to the asteroid belt in a thousand-year voyage to a ne... Read More

The failure to complete the multibillion-dollar V.C. Summer nuclear power plant is a major setback for South Carolina. But it is also a rare opportunity to prepare the state’s electricity sector for major changes sweeping the indus... Read More

In a manufacturing powerhouse like South Carolina, you hear a lot about foreign direct investment (FDI), economic development and job growth, but what exactly does this all mean for the United States and particularly South Carolina? F... Read More

In an extraordinary will written in 1886 and put into effect three years later with state approval of the university that would bear his name, Thomas Green Clemson set out to transform his beloved South Carolina through education.  ... Read More