As Richland and Lexington counties have grown, so have the number of higher-paid county employees.The…
Year: 2010
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…
A legislative panel this morning gave another $100 million taxpayer-funded gift to the Boeing Co.,…
Among Mark Twain’s many quotable quotes is the sage advice to always tell the truth…
For the next 15 years, South Carolina taxpayers will be paying back nearly $400 million…
Kim Murphy Citizen Reporter Monday, Lexington-Richland School District 5 Superintendent Herb Berg will ask…
South Carolina counties collectively have earned the state a top-10 ranking in a new nationwide…
Written by Rick Brundrett and Eric K. Ward On a sunny December afternoon along Aviation…
When Canada-based Western Star Trucks Inc. announced in December 1998 that it would build a…
South Carolina taxpayers are in for severe sticker shock with the deal to bring a…
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By: Tony Coffaro Citizen Reporter Last summer, S.C. Comptroller General Richard Eckstrom visited Aiken to…
As Richland and Lexington counties have grown, so have the number of higher-paid county employees….
Jan Williams Citizen Reporter Harry Kibler of RINO Hunt, speaking in Greenville on Dec. 7,…
Kelly Payne Citizen Reporter If government investment in economic development isn’t tied to job creation…