We got our first inkling of how serious S.C. Rep. Leon Stavrinakis (D-Charleston) is about running for higher office when a top Democratic strategist recently implored us to stop making fun of the lawmaker's diminutive stature. "He's substantive," the strategist told us. "Those jokes do a disservice
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A pair of liberal South Carolina politicians - one "Republican" and one Democrat - recently united in a heavy-handed effort to block South Carolina's largest private utility from trimming trees in downtown Columbia, S.C. S.C. Sen. John Courson (RINO-Columbia) and S.C. Rep. James Smith (D-Columbia)
Read story »Fellow Democrats -- On Saturday, April 30, the delegates (many of you) to the 2011 South Carolina Democratic Convention will select the next chair of our party. I'm encouraged by the outpouring of support our campaign has received. If you haven't made up your mind yet about whom to support
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S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley gained effective control of the S.C. Budget and Control Board (B&CB) just days before her inauguration ... but a petition filed late Friday with the S.C. Supreme Court could render that authority meaningless. At the very least, the petition could force this quasi-legislative,
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When you cut through all the political handicapping, sports prognostication, not-so-clever jokes and pictures of scantily-clad babes, this website exists for the basic purpose of protecting your tax dollars. It's what we do. Why? Well, for starters nobody in government, the "business community"
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It's been awhile since we've done one of these random link recaps but we figured that today was as good a day as any to start bringing back the tradition. Why? Why not ... As we head into 2011 here at FITS (our fifth year of operation), we hope to add this recap as a daily feature - along with
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We're obviously not 100 percent thrilled with what's become of this country (nor are we 100 percent supportive of the way America wages war these days), but none of that changes the fact that the men and women of the United States Armed Forces are heroes - each and every last one of them. From the
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As we reported exclusively earlier this month, Columbia, S.C. Mayor Steve Benjamin and city economic development director Jim Gambrell recently traveled to California in the hopes of landing a "major manufacturing facility" for the recession-ravaged state capital. Good for them, right? Well ...
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Columbia, S.C. Mayor Steve Benjamin traveled to San Jose, California last month to meet with a company that is reportedly considering the city as a possible location for a "major manufacturing facility," multiple sources tell FITS. Joining Benjamin on the trip was the city's top economic development
Read story »By 9:00 a.m. Wednesday morning - after we had received our eleventy kabillionth "Senator So-and-So Issues Statement On Veterans Day" email - our founding editor finally snapped. "So help me God the next time one of these yellow-bellied, douche bag politicians sends us a friggin' press release talking
Read story »By far and away, one of the most ridiculous expenditures of taxpayer money we've ever heard of is the $9.2 million "loan" granted two weeks ago to Patriots Point to upgrade a Korean War-era destroyer that is apparently on the verge of sinking into Charleston (S.C.) Harbor. You can read all about this
Read story »We've never cared much for Rep. James Smith's politics and have said so on multiple occasions. In fact, the last time he got ideologically crossways with us, we used terms like "ignorant subservience" and "enabler of failure" to describe his allegiance to our state's antiquated, monopolistic and hopelessly
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