Mount Pleasant-based Sewee Entertainment can claim an Emmy connection now.

The owner of family-run Duncan’s Boats is eager to go to work every day. “I can say I’m as happy as I’ve ever been with my job,” Jim Duncan said.
That’s remarkable, considering the boat dealer described the current state of the business this way. “Last year was tough. This year is tougher,” he said, noting that sales are off 40-50 percent.
Still, this is the water-crazy Charleston area, and enthusiasts continue to enjoy boating even if there aren’t as many purchasing new vessels right now, he said.
And Duncan’s Boats, which has 12 employees, is ready to respond when economic conditions turn.
The venture opened a 15,000-square-foot retail outlet at 3571 W. Montague Ave. in 2007, lining up popular brands and offering service, accessories and boater safety education along with watercraft sales.

People who barter for health care say the practice allows them to stretch their resources or receive care they couldn’t afford. But the process can be tricky, and not every health care provider will consider it.

Who is the right person to preside over this new Fed? That’s easy. Hint: He's from South Carolina.

In the most unlikely neighborhoods, volunteer farmers are growing food that provides not only for those who work the gardens, but also for neighbors, food kitchens and school lunchrooms.

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The SMAF/Hooters Summer Scorcher Series car show will be 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Hooters of North Charleston next to Northwoods Mall. Sponsors are the Southern Mustang and Ford Club and Hooters restaurant. Registration is $10. Classes are Mustang 1964-78, 1979-93, 1994-2004 and 2005-10; Ford Motor Co., which includes other Ford, Lincoln and Mercury cars; General Motors, which includes GMC, Chevrolet, Pontiac, Saturn and Cadillac cars; Chrysler, which includes Chrysler, Dodge and Plymouth cars; Corvette 1953-82 C1, 2, and 3 and 1984-2009 C4, 5 and 6; trucks, which include pickup, SUV and Jeep; Hummer; Rods, which include rat rod, hot rod, street rod, A-Rod; imports, except Ford of Canada; and motorcycles.

Some of the dirtiest, smelliest, most dangerous jobs are suddenly looking a lot more appealing in this economy. People who have been out of work for months are lining up for jobs at places they once considered unthinkable: slaughterhouses, sewage plants, prisons.

WASHINGTON — Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair is pushing back against key pillars of the Obama administration's financial overhaul plan, saying they wouldn't survive in Congress and calling her own alternatives more viable.

Falling prices are good, right? Led by declining energy costs, that's what has been happening for the past year, leading to a 2.1 percent drop in consumer prices. That's the biggest decline for a 12-month period in nearly 60 years, the U.S. Labor Department reported Friday.

Boeing has discovered another problem with its long-delayed 787 jetliner, prompting the aircraft maker to halt production of mid-fuselage sections at a factory in Italy.

Boeing found microscopic wrinkles in the skin of the 787's fuselage and ordered Italian supplier Alenia Aeronautica to stop making sections on June 23, spokeswoman Lori Gunter said Friday.