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Colorado baseball team, students and the feds team up to save an endangered fish
2+ hour, 40+ min ago (117+ words) South Carolina Public Radio - On Air Now Playing South Carolina Public Radio " News & Talk - On Air Now Playing South Carolina Public Radio - News & Music Colorado baseball team, students and the feds team up to save an endangered fish The razorback…...
P" is for Promised Land
3+ hour, 50+ min ago (157+ words) South Carolina Public Radio P" is for Promised Land P" is for Promised Land (Greenwood and Abbeville counties; 2020 population 555). Located just off of S. C. Highway 10 south of Greenwood, this rural African American community was created by freed slaves in the early…...
Why does replacing Chicago's lead pipes cost so much?
2+ hour, 41+ min ago (141+ words) South Carolina Public Radio - On Air Now Playing South Carolina Public Radio " News & Talk - On Air Now Playing South Carolina Public Radio - News & Music Why does replacing Chicago's lead pipes cost so much? Chicago has more than 400, 000 lead water lines,…...
Grand Strand renourishment project enters final phase
5+ hour, 39+ min ago (116+ words) The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers in South Carolina says work on the Grand Strand is almost complete. Earlier this year, crews began to replenish sand at beaches along the coast. The last site to tackle is Surfside Beach in Horry…...
Kids and stress
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (307+ words) This week, Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. Kathleen Head about recognizing stress in children and teens and helping them learn healthy ways to manage stress. Dr. Head is an Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics and the Associate Medical…...
Growing the affordable housing market in SC
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (51+ words) South Carolina Public Radio Growing the affordable housing market in SC Mike Switzer interviews Alan Cooper, founder and editor of three online business news websites in South Carolina: Midlands Biz, Upstate Biz SC, and Low Country Biz SC. Alan tells…...
Reducing risk of melanoma and other skin cancers
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (261+ words) This week, Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. Graciela De Jesus about reducing risk of melanoma and other skin cancers. Dr. De Jesus is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Dermatology and a dermatologist at the Hereditary Cancer Clinic at MUSC Hollings…...
Ted Landsmark was attacked with an American flag 50 years ago. What does the flag mean to him now?
5+ day, 3+ hour ago (247+ words) In April 1976, a "29-year-old Black lawyer named Ted Landsmark was rushing through Boston's City Hall on the way to a meeting. Landsmark was pushed to the ground, stomped on, had his nose broken, and a white man brandishing a flagpole…...
New 'Amerigo' documentary asks more than 1, 000 Americans if the American dream is still alive
5+ day, 3+ hour ago (186+ words) When filmmaker David Mc Court's grandfather came to the U. S. from Ireland in the late 1800s, he had little more than the clothes on his back and a dream of a better life. He managed to find work as a streetcar driver,…...
How heartland rock became one of America's most misunderstood genres
6+ day, 2+ hour ago (829+ words) In the 1980s, the American landscape was reshaped by recession, globalization and Reaganomics. As manufacturing jobs dried up across the Rust Belt and family farms struggled, a new sound began to dominate radio airwaves. From John Mellencamp's nostalgia for a bygone…...