Author: Bryan Crabtree

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How safe is your home from a break-in?

With a rash of recent break-ins, it’s the perfect time to talk home security with Security Expert Brandon Cox of Threatalarms.com. Brandon shares some ideas that cost less than $100 that can amplify your home’s security ten-fold. What simple steps can you take to protect your family?

Business

He gave up a $37 million contract to start a potato farm & then gives them away! What!?

He was one of the best centers in the NFL. He had a 5-year, $37 million contract and he found it all meaningless. His agent was floored. CBS News reported that St. Louis Rams center Jason Brown quit football to be a farmer in Louisburg, N.C. He bought 1,000 acres and farms crops including cucumbers and sweet potatoes. He says […]

Business

Are you leaving thousands of dollars with your employer without knowing it?

Why are Americans leaving billions of dollars on the table allowing their employers to keep a slice of their future? In one example, a familiar company’s employees let the stockholders keep $98 million instead of taking the free money for their individual retirement accounts. How likely is it that YOU are doing the SAME? An average American can give themselves […]

Education

Do we have the guts to fix our schools?

                Our nation has 7,000 students per day dropping out of school, and we’re now 23rd in the world. When is the bureaucracy of education going to wake up and change the course? Author Don Nielsen (book: “Every School”) joins us to offer the challenges, the reasons and some potential solutions.

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Study: Nearly 40 percent of South Carolinians struggle with banking

In June 2013, the FDIC sponsored the third National Survey of Unbanked and Underbanked Households to collect data on the number of U.S. households that are unbanked and underbanked, their demographic characteristics, and their reasons for being unbanked and underbanked. This survey was conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau as a special supplement to the Current Population Survey (CPS). In […]

Government

S.C. Gubernatorial candidate: jobs are like sex

Steve French, the Libertarian for Governor of South Carolina recently stated that Nikki Haley’s jobs numbers is like sex: “If you have to pay for it don’t brag about it.” That’s probably the best line of the Governor’s debate for South Carolina. French owns a small company company that removes the waste from cooking oil for restaurants and then recycles […]

Government

Lindsey Graham: “All I’ve ever done is try to solve problems.”

“All I’ve ever done is try to solve problems,” says Lindsey Graham at the Business Owners luncheon at Hall’s Chophouse. A packed house, including some of Charleston most successful business owners, listened to Lindsey Graham discuss the challenges facing our country. “I believe in America.” “[We may be messed up], but we’re less messed up than the rest of the […]