Week in Review: Suicide, DeMint, Alcoa, Google, Storms

Sunday of Upstate internet guru Trey Pennington left the state's an inspirational player. It also had a lot of us .

Sen. Jim DeMint's Labor Day GOP primary forum Monday wasn't that heavy on drama or debate, but each of the major candidates got some face time in front of Palmetto voters. I wouldn't be surprised to see power brokers in other states take inspiration from DeMint's model.

Wednesday in its effort to cut its power bill with Santee Cooper. The company has said it will walk away and take 600 jobs with it unless it Santee Cooper can cut its rate increase.

While we're on the topic of power bills, Thursday on the amount of power that it takes to run the search engine empire, including the juice needed to run data centers like the one in Goose Creek. It is a lot, but the company notes the facilities are very efficient and a Google search saves you the gas to go to the library.

In hurricane season news: Katia. Maria.