By Jane Page Thompson Citizen Reporter The Aiken County School Board has announced a $236 million…
Month: April 2010
Some weeks ago, we suggested that the relationship between the Mayor Joe Riley and Charleston…
Like a hungry tick on a fat hound, the S.C. Research Authority can’t stop growing. In…
By Jane Page Thompson Citizen Reporter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j-8lqeX6RU
Last year, S.C. Comptroller General Richard Eckstrom’s office reviewed the use of all state-issued credit…
Johnnie Bellamy Citizen Reporter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXaX_SpsczA
By Johnnie Bellamy Citizen Reporter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXaX_SpsczA
The S.C. Department of Social Services failed to meet all seven federal benchmarks measuring the…
Jane Page Thompson Citizen Reporter In Aiken, general government spending has increased by 43 percent…
Johnnie Bellamy Citizen Reporter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYd53RllR_s
Proposed court fee hikes would raise an estimated $24 million in new money for the…
Johnnie Bellamy Citizen Reporter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmGsmmNRsgQ
The state health department has notified more than 1,800 people that they could be at…
The South Carolina Retirement System is among the worst-funded pension plans for teachers in the…
Among topics broached at a recent Charleston County Council meeting was a discussion regarding planning…
When it comes to public-private economic development, North Carolina has the Research Triangle, Georgia has…
South Carolina taxpayers will cover nearly $362 million in bond costs over the next 15 years…
We thought we had heard it before, and we had, at a number of Charleston…
While South Carolina struggles to cope with one of the highest unemployment rates in the…
Don’t hate me because I’m powerful. Perhaps that is the message a handful of high-ranking…
By Kim Murphy Citizen Reporter Lexington-Richland 5 potentially put the safety of kindergarten students and…
South Carolina’s lawmakers so far this year are voting more anonymously compared to 2009, even…
By Kay Rikard Citizen Reporter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GpbA_o4d9M
Charleston County Council was not at its best at its April 1 meeting. The issue…
A 15-member committee controlled by the Legislature would dole out taxpayer money to promote economic…
Tracey Pinkerton Citizen Reporter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaVB0XUqyKg
In the wild, even the average bear plans for contingencies: Fatten up in the spring…
In the wild, even the average bear plans for contingencies: Fatten up in the spring…
In South Carolina, family court judges can throw indigent parents behind bars for non-payment of…
In South Carolina, family court judges can throw indigent parents behind bars for non-payment of…
While South Carolina suffers from its worst economic downturn arguably since the Great Depression, state…
The way state Rep. Gilda Cobb-Hunter sees it, South Carolina Republicans liken handing out tax…
A report by the State Law Enforcement Division answers some key questions about hundreds of…
As a follow-up to earlier meetings, Charleston Mayor Joe Riley sent City Council members a…