By FITSNews || The University of South Carolina's failed "Innovista" research campus - which has already blown through $150 million in tax dollars with nothing but empty buildings (and emptier political promises) to show for it - is set to receive another $154 million of your money when the Columbia
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There Are No Keys To Columbia, S.C.
Columbia, S.C. - a.k.a. the "Face of the Recession" - is so broke that it has run out of "keys to the city," you know, those big ceremonial keys that get handed out to bureaucrats and other politically-connected types as a way of honoring their years of boondoggling. "We are currently out of keys
Read story »SC: Rewarding Incompetence (Again)
Just when you thought South Carolina's state government had the market cornered when it comes to pouring money down the drain of incompetent government bureaucracies, along comes the City of Columbia with its own claim to taxpayer-funded infamy. According to a report published Sunday by The State
Read story »It Pays To Be The Only Game In Town
Over 8,000 people showed up for the grand opening of the University of South Carolina's new baseball stadium this weekend - an event that the sports writers at La Socialista fawned over to the point of making our cheeks turn garnet. Certainly, there can be no argument that South Carolina's baseball
Read story »Loftis: SC’s Capital City Needs “Turnaround Specialist”
By Curtis Loftis We all know the sad state of affairs concerning Columbia’s city government, so there is not much point of listing our shortfalls now. We also know that it is easier to moan and groan than to offer solutions. So let me swim against the current, and suggest a reasonable, swift
Read story »SC Capital Becomes Face Of Recession
Greenville, S.C. has its bustling new city center and Charleston its historic charm, but Columbia's Main Street has become the sad face of the American recession, at least according to a piece that ran in Sunday's edition of The New York Times. It used to be that Columbia was - in the words of one
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