S.C. Sen. Greg Ryberg has been a vocal (and occasionally effective) critic of South Carolina's underperforming state pension fund. Just last September, in fact, he published a piece that ran in numerous papers decrying the fund's soaring liabilities. "The retirement system, nearly solvent and fully
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South Carolina's eighty-five public school districts held onto a record $900 million in reserve funds in 2011 - an increase of $150 million from the previous year. This growing pile of unspent, un-obligated reserve money comes as lawmakers must decide - once again - whether to continue pouring record
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S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley "eats, breathes and sleeps" jobs ... (well, government-funded ones at least) except of course when she's taking time out of her busy day to tweet nonsense in an effort to make herself seem "hip." Um, "Dancing With Myself" isn't "by The Donnas," governor. It was written and recorded
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S.C. Treasurer Curtis Loftis apparently wasn't the only one trying to get to the bottom of the mess over at the S.C. Retirement System Investment Commission (SCRSIC) - the government bureaucracy responsible for (mis)managing the Palmetto State's underperforming pension fund. Mallory Factor - the Charleston,
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Catherine Templeton - who was recently tapped by S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley's administration to serve as the next commissioner of the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control (SCDHEC) - will not answer questions about the governor's "Savannah River Sellout" at her confirmation hearing this week. "We've
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TOP SOUTH CAROLINA REFORMER SHOWS SOME MISPLACED LOVE S.C. Senator Tom Davis (R-Beaufort) is easily the Palmetto State's most fiscally conservative state lawmaker - as well as its most aggressive advocate for meaningful reform. That's why this website has consistently served as his most vocal cheerleader. Of
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GOVERNOR REALLY, REALLY, REALLY DOESN'T WANT THIS CASE HEARD Having been rebuked by the S.C. Supreme Court, attorneys for Nikki Haley are now attempting to have a circuit court judge dismiss a potentially explosive lawsuit filed against the first-term Republican governor. Last week, the S.C. Supreme
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Even though the average South Carolinian doesn't know an iPad from a block of wood (seriously), local school districts continue to purchase these devices for our public school students anyway. Why? Because South Carolina public schools have more money than God ... that's why. Or as one local educrat
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For the second time in five years, South Carolina's "Republican-controlled" state government is proposing to "reform" the S.C. Department of Transportation (SCDOT). But is that really what's going to happen? Not if things stay as they are ... While we credit GOP lawmakers - and S.C. Gov. Nikki
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As last week's political hatchet job against S.C. Treasurer Curtis Loftis continues to unravel, the Columbia insiders who orchestrated the plot are beginning to turn on one another - revealing specific details of their botched intrigue. One of those details? A spoil of "victory" that one of the conspirators
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The Charleston Place - a luxury hotel in downtown Charleston, S.C. which is currently embroiled in a quarter-million dollar dispute with a group of South Carolina GOP heavyweights - owes U.S. taxpayers more than a hundred times that amount. This outstanding balance stems from a $10 million government
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Sources close to S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson and S.C. State Law Enforcement Division (SLED) chief Mark Keel tell FITS that State Treasurer Curtis Loftis is in the clear regarding "pay-to-play" allegations leveled against him by his political enemies. "There may be evidence of the other guy talking
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