While state agencies struggle with across-the-board budget cuts, salaries continue to jump at the S.C….
Month: January 2010
The fate of a controversial proposed state sales tax break for a shopping mall the…
A decision last year by Columbia City Council to shift the cost of a core…
An estimated 14,000-plus South Carolina college students each lost several hundred dollars in financial aid…
In what he termed an effort to “restore taxpayers’ confidence in our stewardship of their…
Kim Murphy Citizen Reporter Schools districts across the state are crying out for more money,…
A Legislative Audit Council report released this morning paints a damning picture of the S.C. Employment…
According to South Carolina law, counties in the state are required to reassess all personal…
If a yet-to-be-released state incentives agreement with the Boeing Co. looks anything like the one…
As of June 30, 2009, Oconee County in South Carolina had roughly $14.14 million in…
Written by Rick Brundrett and Eric K. Ward Two state economic analyses paint widely different…
Thousands of South Carolinians have invested in a state-run college tuition prepayment program in order…
Alberta Wasden Citizen Reporter The town of Swansea, S.C., has an unusual financial problem:…
Erich Chatham Citizen Reporter The S.C. State Ports Authority Board agreed Tuesday to nearly…
As Richland and Lexington counties have grown, so have the number of higher-paid county employees.The…
A train wreck has been rolling toward South Carolina’s unemployment insurance system for more than…
Jane Page Thompson Citizen Reporter A compromise has been reached and debate is upcoming on point…
Jane Page Thompson Citizen Reporter Wednesday’s debate in the Senate took point-of-sale bill 3272 from…
At Batesburg Leesville High School, assistant principal Ross Kerry makes do with textbooks of varying…
The state’s top judicial foxes won’t give up guarding their own hen house. In a…
Tom Hatfield Citizen Reporter Beaufort County Council Chairman Weston Newton called the current Educational…
If you’re trying to get elected, name recognition is Job One. South Carolina’s nine statewide…
Stimulus funding, budget vetoes and spending transparency are among an array of state business South…
Many of South Carolina’s highest-profile state entities do not have a policy in place regarding…
State and local government agencies spent at least several million in tax dollars last year…
Janet Frazier Citizen Reporter The need for transparency has never been greater than it is…
No. That’s often the favorite word of state and local government officials when asked to…
Never let it be said that the Boeing Co. isn’t politically savvy, or expert in…
NORTH CHARLESTON – It’s shortly after 3:30 on an unseasonably warm Dec. 3 afternoon and first-shift…
Jan Williams Citizen Reporter Greenville and at least four other S.C. cities belong to an…
The nickname of a bill that would provide tax breaks for a proposed retail development…
By Kim Murphy Citizen Reporter The Lexington-Richland School District 5 School Board voted unanimously Monday…
Many South Carolinians may not recognize the name of the man associated with the controversial Okatie…