TIPS, COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS FROM FITS READERS
Welcome to “The Wire,” our pseudo-daily effort to respond to the barrage of info we receive on a daily basis here at FITSNews …
What’s in the news today? The ongoing suspense regarding S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley’s appointment of an interim replacement for the Senate seat being vacated by Jim [...]
The Wire: 12/13/2012
Assessing Nikki Haley’s “Short List”
GOVERNOR NARROWS U.S. SENATE FIELD TO FIVE NAMES
Sources close to S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley have provided CNN with her “short list” of possible appointments to the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Jim DeMint.
The list – comprised of U.S. Rep. Tim Scott, U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy, former S.C. First Lady Jenny Sanford, former S.C. Attorney [...]
Who Will Nikki Haley Pick?
“TRIKKI NIKKI” GETS A TRUMP CARD
S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley may be unpopular … but all of a sudden she’s holding a major political trump card.
U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint’s surprise decision to resign his seat as South Carolina’s junior U.S. Senator gives Haley the power to name his interim replacement – and you better believe that [...]
SCDHEC Backlog No Longer Piling Up
BUT CAN THIS SPRAWLING BUREAUCRACY CLEAR ITS PERMITTING PLATE?
Officials at the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control (SCDHEC) have stopped the bleeding when it comes to a massive backlog of expired environmental permits. But how much progress are they making when it comes to reducing the pile of paperwork sitting on their desks?
Sources near [...]
SCDHEC Continues Data Security Efforts
AGENCY LAUNCHED INITIATIVE TO PROTECT VITAL RECORDS PRIOR TO BREACH AT NIKKI HALEY’S REVENUE DEPARTMENT
The S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control (SCDHEC) has been stepping up its data security efforts for several months now, but an unprecedented security breach at Nikki Haley’s Department of Revenue (SCDOR) has prompted director Catherine Templeton to ramp up [...]
About Catherine Templeton’s Furlough …
DID SHE HAVE TO TAKE IT?
Our moles at the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control (SCDHEC) were buzzing this week with news that the agency’s director, Catherine Templeton, was taking a five-day “vacation.”
Is that newsworthy? Not really … but we followed up on the tip anyway because Templeton is hot, and because we’ve learned [...]
It’s A Great Day … To Be Fat!
SOUTH CAROLINA’S OBESITY RATE PROJECTED TO SOAR OVER THE NEXT TWO DECADES
Already one of the fattest states in America, South Carolina’s obesity rate is set to soar even higher over the next two decades – to the point where nearly two out of every three Palmetto State residents will be classified as obese.
According to the [...]
SCDHEC: Red Or Black?
WHICH IS IT, MADAME DIRECTOR?
The S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control (SCDHEC) is running a $5 million deficit – or so says its new director, Catherine Templeton.
Wait … what? Is she sure? According to data compiled by the S.C. Comptroller General’s office, SCDHEC was running a surplus of $5.5 million as of July 1 – [...]
SCDHEC: Permits Not Required
GO AHEAD, POLLUTE!
South Carolina’s Department of Health and Environmental Control (SCDHEC) has more than five hundred expired environmental permits on its books, sources at the agency tell FITS. As a result of this backlog numerous large environmental projects – including several controversial ones – are being allowed to proceed long after their authorization has expired.
Ready [...]
Catherine Templeton’s War On Fat
STATE GOVERNMENT IS GOING TO MAKE YOU SKINNY
Just when we were beginning to warm up to Catherine Templeton – the new director of the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control (SCDHEC) – off she goes and announces a government-funded jihad against obesity.
That’s right, people … state government is going to make you skinny (whether [...]
Catherine Templeton’s New Mouthpiece
S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control (SCDHEC) chief Catherine Templeton has named a new spokesman, according to the Associated Press.
So who did our state’s most “beautiful mind” pick? Mark Plowden, who has spent the last nine years working for the S.C. Attorney General’s office under Henry McMaster and Alan Wilson.
“DHEC has gotten so beaten [...]
Catherine Templeton’s $101K Spin Cycle
NICE WORK, IF YOU CAN GET IT
When she’s not dropping the ax of doom on employees at the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control (SCDHEC), new director Catherine Templeton reportedly stays holed up in a glorified shed at her agency’s Charleston office with a bunch of Venn diagrams and flow charts.
Presumably plotting where the [...]
