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Maryam Ghaznavi and Raheel Gauba are husband-and-wife entrepreneurs who have grown their business from scratch during the pandemic. They spoke with food and dining editor Parker Milner about satisfying a craving for different cuisine in Charleston.

The theme of the year? Money, lots of it. State legislators need to decide what to do with a $6 billion windfall that's the product of federal aid and a stronger-than-expected economic rebound. Our resident Statehouse expert, assistant Columbia bureau chief Seanna Adcox breaks down what to expect from this session.

It’s been one year since supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. We're taking a closer look at South Carolina's role that day and the cases against the South Carolina residents charged with taking part in the riot that prompted the biggest criminal investigation in U.S. history.

The South Carolina flag design that everyone hated, an Olympian from Charleston who inspired and the NFT sale that sparked a digital art craze: listen back to these moments and more from Palmetto State news in 2021.

It's been nearly a decade since South Carolina was presented with a decision: expand Medicaid or opt out. The state is now one of 12 that hasn't expanded Medicaid since then. Health editor Lauren Sausser explains the significance of that decision, and Christian Soura, a former Medicaid director for South Carolina who’s now the executive vice president at the S.C. Hospital Association, explains some of the implications of that decision, for people who fall in the coverage gap and for care providers.

This week, Andy Shain, who manages The Post and Courier’s Columbia bureau, breaks down the search process happening at the University of South Carolina and shares some insight on what could be next now that the school's preferred candidate has taken himself out of the running.

Michael Sweat, director of the Medical University of South Carolina’s Center for Global Health, breaks down what is and isn’t known about the omicron variant right now.

After repeatedly finding themselves being the only Black people on their visits to Charleston's breweries, brewer April Dove and David White Jr. of "The Dropping Pin" teamed up to create beer that they hope will brew some change for the region's craft beer community.

In South Carolina, there's a small town unofficially known as the hometown of living war heroes. This week, military and politics reporter Thomas Novelly shares what he learned about their stories, the rural town of Batesburg-Leesville and the pride that it takes in having been part of their lives.

This week, we’re revisiting a topic that we discussed about a year ago on this podcast: the plan to potentially build a sea wall around Charleston’s peninsula. In the last year, there have been some significant updates to the plans, and reporter Chloe Johnson, who covers the coastal environment and climate change for The Post and Courier, is back today to recap those plans for us and explain all the important changes. For one, the estimated price of building the wall dropped significantly — by several hundred million dollars. We'll explain why and what's next for the plans.