Several weeks ago the Upstate had a visit from an unassuming man, tirelessly journeying across 45 cities in 50 days, to build partnerships for a vision of opportunity in Nepal. Mahabir Pun has spent the past 26 years, since graduating from the University of Nebraska, on building community projects around the idea that innovation is…
Tires, passenger vehicles, and kazoos. What do these items have in common? South Carolina leads the nation for exports of these products, with customers overseas creating livelihood opportunities for our state, which exported more than $32 billion of South Carolina-made products in 2017 and has seen export increases in each of the last eight years.…
I crisscrossed this country for 40 years, reporting “The American Story with Bob Dotson” on the NBC TODAY Show. That quest was almost non-stop. More than four million miles searching for people who are practically invisible, the ones who change our lives, but don’t take time to tweet and tell us about it. Wisdom…