SCANA leaves town and a good deal
By John Temple Ligon Temple@TheColumbiaStar.com
     Columbia Mayor Coble's 1990 Corporate Citizen of the Year, SCANA, almost saw a statue of its CEO Lawrence Gressette go up in bronze on the town square between Carolina First and the Columbia Museum of Art. SCANA had such a strong downtown presence the town leaders were pushing to memorialize SCANA's
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Star Profile
Doug Quackenbush, architect
By John Temple Ligon Temple@TheColumbiaStar.com
     Born in Charlotte, Doug Quackenbush spent his toddler years moving around urban North Carolina as his pharmacist father moved up in the Eckerd Drugs organization. After attending middle school in Charleston, Quackenbush came to Irmo High School, graduating in 1978.
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Briefs
by John Temple Ligon
     Taking an idea from the Brits North Carolina is the only state in the country to look into possible wrongful convictions, as they do in the United Kingdom. The Innocence Inquiry Commission is a state-authorized eight-member panel empowered to review the innocence claims of felons if new evid
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BBB Alert:
Storm clean-up schemes cause additional heartache
     The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts a very active 2006 storm season. With eight to 10 Atlantic hurricanes looming on the horizon, the Better Business Bureau reminds those who experience storm damage to take care when cleaning up.
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Folks About Town
     The newest members of the Historic Columbia Foundation's board of trustees are
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Shop Talk
     Uniroyal Tire and Discount Tire of West Columbia
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