Kyle Stock
Kyle Stock, a gradaute of Northwestern University's Medill School of Jounalism, joined The Post and Courier staff in 2003 as a reporter on the tourism, technologies and utilities beats. He has worked in Washington, D.C., and Belgium. Stock is a native of Connecticut with a bachelor's degree in biology and science from Colorado College. After reearching Lou Gehrig's disease at the University of California San Francisco, he volunteered to teach AIDS education in rural Kenya.
Recent Stories
Mobile technology
Local venture first to transform Apple's iPhone into a walking-tour guide
Call it what you will: a wireless phone, music player, video player, camera, hard-drive, map or GPS. A trio of Charleston businessmen have developed their own term for the latest version of the iPhone that Apple Inc. launched over the summer: tour guide. Longtime wa...
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Selling Slavery
Area business people finding money in long-shrouded history
Charleston has long made its fortune by bringing people here. Centuries ago, it was slaves. Today, it's tourists.
Both have been thriving industries, though Charleston promoters have long dressed up or covered up the legacy of human bondage in the Lowcountry.
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Selling slavery
Charleston has long made its fortune by bringing people here. Today, it's tourists. Centuries ago, it was slaves.
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'I'll see ya'll later': Reporter heading to NYC
Tourism
"Y'all. Y'all ... y'all ... y'all ... y'all." They just kept coming. It was five years ago this week and I was listening to Gov. Mark Sanford address Charleston's tourism leaders for the first time. To a "swamp Yankee" from Connecticut who had only been to South Carolina for two days of job interviews, the folksy colloquialism seemed a strange choice for such a formal setting.
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Judge: Parish deserved long prison term
Convicted economist Al Parish deserved his 24-year prison sentence because he took advantage of people he'd known for years and didn't act out of financial necessity or after a life of neglect, "unlike many criminal defendants," the sentencing judge wrote Wednesday.
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Full speed ahead at Patrick
Randall Goldman is not familiar with the phrase "Leave well enough alone." Goldman, managing director of Patrick Properties LLC, is in the midst of quarterbacking three major redevelopments and is about to host a groundbreaking for a new Mount Pleasant office building.
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Nucor, SeverCorr settle lawsuit
For 18 years, John Bell developed metallurgical techniques that helped mold Nucor Corp. into one of the country's most powerful steel makers, cooking up many strategies at the company's Berkeley County mill. When he resigned in 2006, he took trade secrets to a competitor, according to Nucor, which has been fighting a legal battle with Bell and his present employer for almost two years.
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Nucor settles lawsuit against former manager
Nucor said it was precluded from discussing the financial terms of the settlement with John Bell, its former melt shop manager in Huger, and SeverCorr, a Mississippi steel mill operator started by a former chief executive officer at Nucor. Charlotte-based Nucor alleged Bell took proprietary information about its steelmaking processes when he left the company in March 2006 to join SeverCorr.
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Santee Cooper gets even greener
Utility OKs purchase of additional 1% of power from renewable source
In a bid to replace coal with something more "green," state-owned Santee Cooper approved a plan Monday to buy an additional 1 percent of its power from an outfit that generates electricity by burning wood or landfill fumes.
The Moncks Corner-based utility did not set a deadline for buying the so-called green energy but Mollie Gore, corporate communications, said it already is looking at potential suppliers.
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Santee Cooper to purchase more green power
In a bid to replace coal with something more "green," state-owned Santee Cooper approved a plan Monday to buy an additional 1 percent of its power from an outfit that generates electricity by burning wood or landfill fumes.
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