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Dialysis to Despair: From Richard Nixon to Graham-Cassidy

Sep 25, 2017 ● By Emily Stevenson

I’m just a number. Do those we elect to serve care about statistics? Does our Sen. Lindsay Graham care about at least one of his constituents? Richard Nixon did.

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S.C.’s Nuclear Meltdown and Crony Capitalism

Aug 31, 2017 ● By Emily Stevenson

Over the last ten years, SCE&G has hit its customers with nine rate increases. Today, 20 percent of their customers’ bills goes to pay for the failed nuclear facilities.

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Motivations a critical factor in growing a business

Aug 31, 2017 ● By Emily Stevenson

Whatever it is, the key to being successful and growing your business is to know why you are driven to succeed, own it, and plan to achieve it.

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Higher Education System Grapples with Complex, Three-Legged Monster

Aug 31, 2017 ● By Emily Stevenson

Schilz says the Commission’s overarching duty is to identify threats to the long-term stability of the state’s higher education system. The abatement situation threatens the integrity of the system’s collective funding model.

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Small Businesses Can Repel Malicious Attacks by Being Cyber-shrewd

Jul 03, 2017 ● By Emily Stevenson

The bad actors (criminals) on the other side of cyberspace are multiplying and increasing their efficiencies too.

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Critique by job, compliment by person

Apr 03, 2017 ● By Makayla Gay

Have you ever needed to deliver some correction to a team member, but been frustrated at their seeming inability to hear it? This can drain the momentum of any team. Our default wiring as humans is to attach more meaning to what we do than who we are. Consequentially, any negative comment about job performance is going to be met with resistance.

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Reflections on the Women’s March

Mar 01, 2017 ● By Emily Stevenson

We have been reminded that our voices do count and our actions, no matter how small, do influence and change the world.

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Customization + Ecommerce = Customers

Jan 01, 2017 ● By Makayla Gay

E-commerce is steadily taking more and more of the consumer’s wallet every year. For millennials and future generations, purchasing online is the norm, and traditional retail will simply have to adjust.

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