S.C. Senate President Pro Tempore Glenn McConnell is protecting a system that wraps a cloak…
Year: 2010
There were few items of substance on the May 25 Charleston City Council meeting agenda,…
Although S.C. Senate and House members apparently think nothing of giving their respective chambers a…
By Jan Williams Citizen Reporter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gs_DlnXmTE
Amid one of the worst economic downturns in South Carolina’s history, the board of state-owned…
Getting out of a $98 million hole isn’t easy. When the state started this fiscal…
Two members of the horse family unwittingly have become a distraction in the General Assembly…
There were no doubts where Darla Moore stood on the five-year fundraising effort put forth…
Mayor Joe Riley did it again. At the Charleston City Council meeting earlier this month,…
If South Carolina’s chief economist, William Gillespie, is looking for a job reference, he likely…
How bad is South Carolina’s budget crisis? Let’s let the state’s legislative…
If the state of South Carolina is late with your income tax refund next year,…
Jan Williams Citizen Reporter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L12CL0AaCWA
Call it the Act 388 perfect storm. When state lawmakers in 2006 passed Act 388…
Last week’s Charleston County Council Finance Committee meeting was largely taken up with a continuation…
City officials in Aiken apparently aren’t quite sure just how much taxpayer money it takes…
A largely under-the-radar, state-created agency would play a prominent role in a proposed state agency…
A longtime Dorchester County judge under fire for his handling of foreclosure cases could remain…
Janet Frazier Citizen Reporter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hav2-FwK8Zc
A lot of South Carolina lawmakers apparently like to go cliff diving. Funding cliff diving,…
Kay Rikard Citizen Reporter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-VgQQDQ2RQ
Although most of state government likely will experience another round of general fund cuts next…
Janet Frazier Citizen Reporter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=879cPSV7zhM
Heading up a state agency isn’t necessarily a ticket to riches in South Carolina. Of…
Janet Frazier Citizen Reporter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDsqIMyxXH4
Less than two years after Lexington-Richland School District 5 secured passage of a contentious $243.7…
Janet Frazier Citizen Reporter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzwheQa_zN8
Janet Frazier Citizen Reporter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlplCL2XVJo
The prospects for reform of the entrenched, embattled S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control…
Although opposed to an S.C. House bill requiring increased roll-call voting in the Legislature, two…
A bill that would create a new state agency to promote economic development in 17…