Free Market Ports: Even Canada Gets It

PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS ARE BUILDING INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE GREAT NORTH
South Carolina’s refusal to leverage private capital for the purpose of expanding its port infrastructure isn’t just keeping our state from competing with American ports (like Baltimore or Long Beach), it’s holding us back in the continental battle for jobs and investment.
Take Canada, which is in the [...]

Nikki Haley’s “Casino Calculus”

WHAT THE GOVERNOR COULD WIN (AND LOSE) IN LOWCOUNTRY CASINO DEBATE
Another week, another disturbing display of amateurism and double talk from the administration of S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley …
As numerous media outlets have reported (and as we picked up on belatedly here), Haley is the sole “deciderer” when it comes to the approval of a [...]

Nikki Haley’s Port Veto: Why The Delay?

S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley promised more than two weeks ago to veto the General Assembly’s unanimous rejection of her “Savannah River Sellout.”
A rebuke of a rebuke, if you will …
Without a single dissenting vote, both the S.C. House and the State Senate have passed legislation aimed at undoing Haley’s controversial appeasement of the State of [...]

Koch Brothers To Benefit From “Savannah River Sellout”

In addition to the financial and political favors she’s already alleged to have already received for betraying South Carolina’s economic and environmental interests, S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley may reap yet another major reward from her “Savannah River Sellout.”
Specifically, her decision to accommodate the state of Georgia’s government-funded Savannah port expansion project – which will effectively [...]

Jasper Port: The Fix Is In

So here’s what Byron Miller – the S.C. State Ports Authority (SCSPA)’s spokesperson – recently said about the Jasper County port project that S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley so decisively sold down the river via her “Savannah River Sellout.”
“So building a $4 billion Jasper Ocean Terminal with significant new public infrastructure on a constrained river that’s [...]

Picking A Fight

S.C. Gov.-elect Nikki Haley is picking a fight with the state of Georgia over South Carolina’s anti-competitive port facilities – although her basis for doing so (as well as what she hopes to accomplish with her rhetoric) is unclear.
“You now have a governor who does not like to lose,” Haley told a crowd of S.C. [...]

Tom Davis: Port Project Is “Every Crab For Itself”

By Tom Davis
My law partner, former Lt. Gov. Brantley Harvey, once told me that politics in South Carolina was like a bucket of crabs. Each crab struggles mightily, without help, to climb out and if one finally reaches the top, the rest will collectively pull it back down.
That’s the curse of South Carolina being a [...]

Finally

SOUTH CAROLINA’S PORTS SYSTEM GETS SOMETHING RIGHT
FITSNews – July 27, 2008 – It’s been a decade of missed opportunities for the feeble-minded, status quo Stalinites who run South Carolina’s State Ports Authority.
While other states have opened gleaming new terminals using innovative public-private partnerships, South Carolina has repeatedly said “no thanks” to billions of dollars worth [...]