With Boeing coming to North Charleston, and now Proterra coming to the Upstate, call it “trimming the fat” or just realizing what Wal-Mart has proclaimed for years, unions are not the way to go. Either way, these high-tech companies are leading the charge for others to relocate here to South Carolina.

Proterra Inc., which develops and assembles fuel cell hybrid-powered transit vehicles, has announced that it will locate a facility for R&D and assembly of its products at CU-ICAR here in Greenville.

This Thursday, the SBDC is putting on an event, “JumpStart Your Business, Tips for Start-up Success” to help interested individuals explore the basics of what it takes to get into business.

The Small Business Development Center (SBDC) of South Carolina is a consortium of 4 universities which operate a state office and 15 regional / area centers around the state. These centers offer a variety of services and management training courses tailored to meet the needs of SMBs. SBDC consultants at each site provide management and technical assistance to those wishing to start or expand an enterprise.

Sticking to his conservative values of keeping the SC budget down to a bare minimum, Sanford lost the battle over Mother Nature’s power of the wind.

With a G.E. plant here in the Upstate going full-throttle manufacturing wind turbines and now a wind research site at the Clemson Restoration Institute in North Charleston, we may see wind-powered turbines off SC sooner than you think.

Clemson landed a $45 million grant back in November from the DOE to test wind turbines, and this Wednesday’s 4-1 vote from our Budget and Control Board sets the state’s portion of that money into motion.