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750 everyday people gather to change the state for the better
Dec 7 2010A number of Beaufort County residents traveled to Columbia last week to talk about changing the state for the better. The gathering didn't get the attention of a rally by great change agents Barack Obama or Sarah Palin, but it will be more effective in the long run.
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Empowering leaders for future
Dec 5 2010The organizers hoped 400 or 500 would come. Instead, the meeting hall at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center filled to capacity Tuesday with nearly 750 people eager to transform South Carolina.
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Liberty kicks off effort to seek solution to state's problems
Dec 1 2010Tuesday, about 750 of South Carolina’s lawmakers, educators, judges, business owners and others from around the state and of varying political stripes gathered in Columbia to discuss these and the state’s other daunting challenges.
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Liberty Fellowship Summit seeks solutions to South Carolina's pressing needs
Nov 21 2010South Carolina has carved more than $2 billion from its budget over the past three years, slashing about 3,000 state jobs in the process, and more cuts are expected this fiscal year. Teachers and librarians have been laid off. Services have been delayed or cut.
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Hospital taps Singerling
Oct 15 2010Palmetto Health promotes chief operating officer, sets up chief executive succession.
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Endurance swimmer completes 16 mile trek around Charleston
Oct 3 2010Endurance swimmer Kathleen Wilson has traveled around the United States and the world to test herself on open waters for more than 13 years.
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Life and the Liberty Fellowship
Sep 9 2010Sometimes help can be found in the most unlikely of places.
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When passion meets purpose
Aug 17 2010District 7 Superintendent Russell Booker’s passion and devotion got him selected for the next Liberty Fellowship class; those are some of the same traits that saw him tapped for the top schools slot in the city of Spartanburg.
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Columbians Gergel, Childs confirmed as federal judges
Aug 6 2010Longtime Columbia lawyer Richard Gergel and state Circuit Judge Michelle Childs have been confirmed as federal judges by the U.S. Senate.
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22 South Carolinians Chosen to Begin Intense Leadership Program
Jul 27 2010GREENVILLE, South Carolina (July 27, 2010) – Significant community involvement, success in their chosen field and a commitment to improving South Carolina characterize the newest class of Liberty Fellows. Chosen from a pool of 400 candidates spread across the state, these class members represent business, government and nonprofit sectors of South Carolina.
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Commission honors state artists
Jul 18 2010Poet Barbara G.S. Hagerty and Pure Theatre co-founders Sharon Graci and Rodney Lee Rogers represent a near-sweep by Charleston County in capturing three of the four 2011 Individual Artist Fellowship Awards announced by the S.C. Arts Commission.
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Lab21 to upfit Next Innovation Center
Jul 16 2010Lab21 Inc. has signed a lease and obtained financing to locate a high-tech, advanced diagnostics lab at the Next Innovation Center in downtown Greenville.
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Promise program taking shape
Jul 5 2010The group hoping to break the cycle of poverty in an area straddling the peninsula and North Charleston is coalescing and gaining momentum.
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SCMBEC Client Wins Regional Media Award
Jun 15 2010Darrin Thomas, president of the Thomas Media Group, LLC, has recently been awarded with the Atlanta Regional Media Award from the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA), for his contributions to the African-American business community through his work with the Black Pages USA publication.
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New York House Magazine's Innovative Green Design Awards Announced
Jun 14 2010ScheinMedia proudly announces the winners of New York House magazine's second annual Innovative Green Design AwardsSM (IGDA) competition.
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Woodland Heights whoops it up as Palmetto's Finest
Mar 25 2010Faculty and students at Woodland Heights Elementary would have used those words to describe their school even before winning two prestigious state awards earlier this week. Now they have the plaques to prove it.
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A Conversation with Hayne Hipp, Founder of the Liberty Fellowship
Mar 18 2010Alan Cooper, publisher of MidlandsBiz and UpstatebizSC, interviews Hayne Hipp about the Liberty Fellowship. Video included.
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John Few Elected Chief Judge of the South Carolina Court of Appeals
Feb 3 2010The South Carolina Judicial Department welcomes Judge John Cannon Few to the Court of Appeals.
