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Local college leader awarded CEO of the Year

Aiken Technical College President, Forest E. Mahan, Ph.D., has been named the Chief Executive Officer of the Year for the Southern Region by the Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT). “I am elated to be nominated and selected for the ACCT CEO Award for the state of South Carolina and the Southern Region! Our team at Aiken Tech exemplifies what it means to be committed, innovative, and collaborative, consistently making excellence the standard,” said Dr. Mahan. “It is an honor to lead this team and guide our college as we

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Staff Report October 25, 2023 No Comments
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Big exposure available for small businesses in South Carolina

Small businesses across South Carolina, from the smallest communities to the largest metropolitan cities, have an online option to market their business. The North Augusta Chamber of Commerce’s monthly Business Roundtable hosted a Zoom meeting at their October 25 session to explain We Shop SC. The initiative is a partnership with the Municipal Association of South Carolina, Main Street South Carolina, and Beyond Main. “One of the biggest things that we pursued this past year and a half ago was developing We Shop SC,” said Jenny Boulware of Main Street

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Dana Lynn McIntyre October 25, 2023 No Comments
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Preparing for the 2024 Georgia Legislative Session

Lawmakers head back to Atlanta in January and local Chambers of Commerce are holding the traditional pre-legislative session breakfasts. The Augusta Metro Chamber held its event on Oct. 24 at First Baptist Church of Augusta. Cosby Johnson, mayor of Brunswick, was the keynote speaker. Legislators attending were Representatives, Gloria Frazier (D-District 126), Dr. Mark Newton (R-District 127), Karlton Howard (D-District 129), Lynn Gladney (D-District 130) and Brian Prince (D-District 132, chairman of local delegation) and Senators Harold Jones (D-District 22) and Max Burns (R-District 23). Johnson, who is also vice

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Dana Lynn McIntyre October 24, 2023 No Comments
B2B Podcasting

No restrictions!

See what an AU professor has to say concerning restrictions on tattoo studios in Columbia County. Mike Petchenik explains the professor’s business perspective in today’s BizBits.

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Mike Petchenik October 24, 2023 No Comments
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Investors are just normal people

Johnathan Murphy, commercial real estate specialist at Auben Realty, sits down with Augusta Business Daily publisher, Neil Gordon to discuss the benefits of investing in real estate. He was one of the presenters at the ABD Conference and Expo. You might remember Murphy from the session he and Janie Peel led about investing during our expo this past Thursday. Murphy says that the typical investor is no different from the average person. Get in touch with Murphy and the rest of the Auben Realty team on their website at https://www.aubenrealty.com/.

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Neil Gordon October 24, 2023 No Comments
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Want to win? Hire glue guys and gals!

As a sports fan, this is one of my two favorite times of the year. One of those times is in early spring when the NCAA’s March Madness coincides with the start of the Major League Baseball (MLB) season, the Masters, and the end of professional basketball and hockey’s regular seasons. However, the middle of fall rivals that time with MLB’s post-season, the intensity of the middle of the college and professional football seasons, and the start of the college and professional basketball seasons. I often think about what goes

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Dr. Rick Franza October 24, 2023 No Comments
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Columbia County Delegation to highlight Legislative Breakfast

The Columbia County Chamber of Commerce will host its bi-annual Legislative Breakfast presented by AT&T on Thursday, Nov. 2, from 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m., at Savannah Rapids Pavilion. The Legislative Breakfast will feature a panel discussion with Columbia County State Senate and House Representatives moderated by WJBF News Channel 6 Anchor Brad Means. The state leaders scheduled to attend include Senator Max Burns, Senator Lee Anderson, Representative Barry Fleming, Representative Jodi Lott, Representative Mark Newton, and Representative Rob Leverett. The delegation will highlight key issues they plan to work

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Rakiyah Lenon October 24, 2023 No Comments
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Simon Says: Job openings up, savings rate way down

In my continued effort to bring good news to the Augusta metro area, I can report that after several months of declining job openings, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced last week that job openings in August were up 27,000 (8%) in Georgia and 7,000 (4%) in South Carolina. However, the only other variable in the Augusta Leading Economic Index (LEI) that improved was residential housing permits, up six percent. Initial claims for unemployment insurance increased by ten percent, while the Dow Jones Industrial Index fell 2 percent on the

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Dr. Simon Medcalfe October 23, 2023 No Comments
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Creative arts are music to the CSRA economy

The Georgia Council for the Arts (GCA) and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) show that the arts are having an economic impact at the state and national levels. The latest report from GCA shows that 200,000 jobs with an economic impact of $48 billion are directly connected to the creative industries in the Peach State. That presence is also a selling tool to attract new businesses to Georgia. “Georgia communities are successfully using the arts as a part of their local economic development efforts. Georgia’s creative economy not

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Dana Lynn McIntyre October 23, 2023 No Comments
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Club Car expands in a big way

Tooling around on a golf cart, a farm, or a neighborhood takes on a new meaning with Club Car. It’s also big business when it involves an expansion. Mike Petchenik has more in today’s Biz Bits.

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Mike Petchenik October 22, 2023 No Comments
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