Join Allen University for the 2025 Homecoming Activities! The homecoming celebration will take place on Saturday, November 8, 2025.
The homecoming parade will start downtown Columbia at 10 am. The parade will start at Sumter and Calhoun Streets and end at Sumter and Lady Streets.
After the parade, everyone will head to Fairfield Central High School (836 US Highway 321 By-Pass South, Winnsboro, SC) for the Homecoming Football Game. The Yellow Jackets will take on Edward Waters University at 2 p.m.
For more information, visit AUYellowJackets.com.
this kind of uncertainty,” he said. “This has got to stop, because it’s giving the insurance companies no other choice but to publish these super-inflated price projections that [put everyone’s] backs against a wall.”
That’s a concern shared by S.C. Small Business Chamber of Commerce President Frank Knapp, who noted that only 21 % of S.C. businesses with fewer than 50 employees can afford to provide health insurance for their employees.
“The Affordable Care Act is how these small business owners and their employees get their health insurance,” Knapp told Statehouse Report on Oct. 16. “And if those enhanced subsidies go away, we’ll have thousands of people who simply can’t afford their health insurance.”
Meanwhile, with the federal shutdown set to move into its17th day, University of South Carolina economist Joseph Von Nessen warned that the state
would begin to see widespread economic impacts if a deal isn’t reached soon.
“Once we get out past the 30-day mark, we start to see the potential for significant disruptions,” Von Nessen said in an Oct. 16 interview. “That’s when more businesses are likely to be affected due to suspended government contracts and where federal employees begin to miss paychecks, which affects spending in the local economy.”
But for his part, S.C. Gov. Henry McMaster said he doesn’t believe we’re going to get to that point.
“I think the shutdown’s not going to last much longer,” McMaster told reporterson Oct. 15.
At press time, there were no public indications that Republicans and Democrats were in active negotiations to resolve the impasse.
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