It’s Monday, and that’s when we like to take a look at current business issues that are trending across our state and discuss them with one of our fellow news media friends. This week, Mike Switzer interviews Jessica Holdman, a reporter with the South Carolina Daily Gazette in Columbia, SC. Jessica tells us about a $260 million, 217 jobs announcement for a woodmilling company going into an old textile plant in the Upstate and a $400 million, 100+ jobs deal for an electric cable manufacturer coming to Orangeburg. She also shares information about Duke Energy receiving some federal grant money for power grid upgrades.
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Switzer: Hello and welcome to the South Carolina Business Review. This, is Mike Switzer. It’s Monday and that’s when we like to take a look at current business issues that are trending across our state and discuss them with one of our fellow news media friends. This week we have Jessica Holdman, a reporter with the South Carolina Daily Gazette, a non profit news agency. And she joins us by phone now from her office in Columbia. Jessica, welcome back to the program…