BIG STORY: Session’s close drawing near with big items waiting for 2020
By Lindsay Street, Statehouse correspondent | Lawmakers have three legislative days left to figure out how to deal with $158.6 million in budget differences from a $1 billion surplus. Since January,...
View ArticleNEWS BRIEFS: Clock ticks at Statehouse, 4K enrollment, more
By Lindsay Street, Statehouse correspondent | The clock is ticking down: There are three legislative days left in the House before the start of budget deliberations and six legislative days left in...
View ArticleNEWS BRIEFS: House budgets $11 more per student for education
By Lindsay Street, Statehouse correspondent | A draft of the state budget shorts public K-12 students nearly $600 each in a year of a record surplus and revenues. The House will begin budget...
View ArticleBIG LIST: 359 file for 170 state legislative seats
By Lindsay Street, Statehouse correspondent | The June primary and General Election remain in question as the S.C. Election Commission pushes for changes from lawmakers on how the state executes...
View ArticleNEW for 10/23: On justice and race; Country moving to middle; Cancer
INSIDE ISSUE 19.43 | Oct. 23, 2020 BIG STORY: House justice panel seems to skirt race, critics say NEWS BRIEFS: 200,000 in S.C. could get coverage if Medicaid expands, report finds SPOTLIGHT: South...
View ArticleNEW for 4/23: Time running out; Political talk; Santee Cooper breathes
INSIDE STATEHOUSE REPORT | APRIL 23, 2021 BIG STORY: Clock winds down on legislature as budget debate to start NEWS BRIEFS: Senate vote gives Santee Cooper room to breathe LOWCOUNTRY, Ariail: Hung up...
View ArticleNEWS BRIEFS: House, Senate to return Dec. 1, 6 on redistricting
Staff reports | Both chambers of the S.C. General Assembly will return in early December to consider redistricting plans. New maps are required every 10 years by the U.S. Constitution to equalize...
View ArticleNEWS BRIEFS: Senate’s $12 billion state budget returns to House
Staff reports | State lawmakers have until May 12 to approve a $12 billion budget following Thursday's approval of the spending plan pushed by the state Senate. Because the Senate bill, which includes...
View ArticleBRACK: Smith has leadership opportunity to quell sideshows
By Andy Brack | Word that newly-elected House Speaker Murrell Smith, R-Sumter, is going to make House members write bills better sounds like a good idea at first blush. But is poor draftsmanship...
View ArticleNEW for 1/27: From abortion ban to executions to political playbook
INSIDE STATEHOUSE REPORT | ISSUE 22.04 | JAN. 27, 2023 NEWS: Abortion ban, prosperity at top of 2023 agenda NEWS BRIEFS: Court demands more info on executions LOWCOUNTRY, Ariail: GOP comity...
View ArticleBRACK: Hoping for tipping point on House craziness
By Andy Brack | Maybe the week that members of the S.C. House discussed the state’s $14 billion budget will be remembered as a tipping point for traditional Republicans. Maybe they now have become...
View ArticleBRACK: Establishment brushes off self-anointed Freedom Caucus
By Andy Brack | There are always theatrics during the state’s annual budget process, but most of the time they seem limited to a minority party desperately trying to be heard so that the majority...
View ArticleNEW for 9/13: Races to watch, vouchers whacked, debate impact
INSIDE ISSUE 23.37 | Sept. 13, 2024 BIG STORY: 10 Statehouse races to watch in 2024 MORE NEWS: S.C. Supreme Court strikes voucher law LOWCOUNTRY, Ariail: Enjoy it while you can COMMENTARY, Brack:...
View ArticleBIG STORY: S.C. GOP celebrates red wave; Dems seek answers
By Jack O’Toole, Capitol Bureau | South Carolina voters on Tuesday were just like everybody else across the nation – only more so, turning what was already a very good election day for Republicans...
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