For years, South Carolina's big-spending public school bureaucrats (a.k.a. "educrats") were on the offensive in their battle to preserve our state's failed monopolistic status quo. The funding and academic numbers weren't on their side (far from it, in fact), but these well-heeled purveyors of failure
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By Bill Herbkersman || ‘NEA and its affiliates have been singled out because they are the most effective unions in the United States … they must never lose sight of the fact that they are unions, and what unions do first and foremost is represent their members.” That statement from Bob Chanin,
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"Run away! Run away!" No, this isn't a scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, it's the scene that's unfolding at the S.C. State House after several "Republican" lawmakers got their hands caught in Barack Obama's cookie jar. Several SCGOP lawmakers are now fleeing a bill they previously sponsored
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Every time we think it couldn't possibly get any more corrupt, the "Coastal Kickback" - a brazen pay-to-play scam involving numerous South Carolina politicians - finds a way to prove us wrong. In case you're new to FITS, this scam began last May when the city of Myrtle Beach, S.C. passed a one cent
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S.C. Senator Vincent Sheheen may have lost the Palmetto state's governor's race last month - but he's still pushing ideas that he believes will make South Carolina's state government more efficient and accountable to the taxpayers it's supposed to serve. Some of them actually will ... On Thursday,
Read story »A little over a week after serving as a very expensive taxpayer-funded taxi to a legislative boozefest in Winston-Salem, N.C. (just five hours away by car), South Carolina's state-owned Beechcraft King Air is once again flying your friendly skies. According to public flight data obtained by FITS,
Read story »S.C. lawmakers who used the state plane to travel to a "legislative conference" in Winston-Salem, N.C. last weekend - with a registered lobbyist in tow - are now facing heat from their colleagues over the flight. Specifically, one of their fellow legislators is publicly chastising them while another
Read story »The Speaker of the S.C. House of Representatives and Majority Leader of the State Senate have joined fiscal conservative reformers in supporting a key transparency initiative - the creation of an online checkbook that would track all taxpayer expenditures over $100. House Speaker Bobby Harrell and
Read story »NOR IS SIC HOOKING UP WITH ANY OF THEIR ANCHORS AGAIN, EITHER FITSNews - August 25, 2008 - Perhaps because our founding editor has slept with so many TV reporters (particularly in the Charleston, S.C. market), he tends to take everything they say as gospel ... like this morning's story about a State
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