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Briefs Boomers Surveys suggest about 90% of people 60 or older don't move from longtime homes. Those who do tend to relocate within the same metropolitan area. Consequently, age-restricted communities are growing outside such retirement destination states as Arizona and Florida. Watch for age-restricted real estate developments in the Columbia market. The first baby boomers - 78 million in the country - turn 60 this year. In North Carolina, the 65-plus population is expected to grow by 124% from 2000 to 2030, while in South Carolina, the same demographic will rise by 134%, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Extremely good profits Duke Energy's Crescent Resources, its real estate arm, in 2005 earned $314 million before interest and taxes on $495 million in revenue, as reported in The Charlotte Observer and never corrected. Duke sold 51% of Crescent last week.
Foie gras follies Chicago's city council voted last April to ban the sale of foie gras, the enlarged livers of ducks and geese. The council objects to cruelty occurrences in the forced feeding and fattening. Veal, presumably, is next. Please, Columbia City Council, stay out of the kitchen.
The fare hike nobody noticed United Airlines, one of Columbia's connectors, introduced a fare hike in August, but no other airline responded with a similar increase, so United dropped the fare hike. Thank you, Delta. Thank you, US Airways. Thank you, Continental. Thank...
West Columbia's Dr. John Black makes the Wall Street Journal Dr. Black wrote the Journal to explain the shortage of primary-care physicians, particularly those who serve Medicare and Medicaid patients. His solution, essentially: Pay the primary-care physicians more money.
Men come to Randolph Macon. Columbia College holds out. Columbia's Ginger Hill, who grew up on Spring Lake Rd., is the interim president of Virginia's Randolph Macon Women's College, her alma mater, where she is managing the introductory enrollment of men next year. In 1960, the United States had almost 300 women's colleges, and today there are 60.
The cost of fixed-rail transit Charlotte's 9.6-mile line along South Boulevard is scheduled to open in November 2007 at a cost close to $450 million. The price estimated in 1998 was $227 million.
Spreading the good culinary word, to include Devine Street In 1990, according to ShawGuides, the United States had 170 recreational cooking schools; in 2005, 510.
Workforce readiness, or lack thereof According to the Palmetto Institute, chaired by South Carolina's Darla Moore, roughly $400 million is spent annually on workforce development in the state. Still, about one-third of South Carolina's workforce, 600,000 people, cannot be expected to demonstrate the skills to acquire or hold a well-paying job. In 2006, South Carolina should get about $63 million in federal Workforce Investment Act funds.
A woman of substance Charleston's Sallie Krawcheck moved up in Forbes Magazine 's rankings of the world's 100 most powerful women. Krawcheck, Citigroup's chief financial officer, rose to No. 6 from last year's No. 7, when she made $10.1 million working at the banking giant. No. 1 this year is German Chancellor Angela Merkel. No. 2 is America's Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
A good idea for Columbia City Manager Charles Austin Centennial, Colorado, has about 104,000 people, and Columbia counts about 117,000 citizens. Centennial has 30 city employees. Just about every city service and chore is outsourced, contracted out. The City of Columbia outsources, too, but not as much. Columbia has 1,700 city employees.
Clemson comes to Camden New Yorker Margaret Lloyd donated 870 acres along the Wateree River to Clemson University for an environmental education center. She also gave $2 million for the center. The location is near the Revolutionary War's Battle of Camden site. Last week, Lloyd was recognized by receiving the Ruby C. McSwain Award from the National Agriculture Alumni and Development Association.
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