RESTRUCTURING PLAN KNOCKS OUT NUMEROUS UPPER LEVEL BUREAUCRATS
Catherine Templeton isn’t running for Congress … but she has unsheathed her ax.
The director of South Carolina’s largest government agency announced a major administrative overhaul this week – one which will place pink slips in the boxes of forty-five upper level bureaucrats, according to multiple sources at the S.C. [...]
Major Shakeup At SCDHEC
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 [...]
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 [...]
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FITS Banned AT SCDHEC
That didn’t take long …
Days after the S.C. Senate confirmed Catherine Templeton as the new commissioner of the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control (SCDHEC), the agency has blocked employees from reading FITSNews.
Multiple sources confirmed that the ban took place at around noon on Monday – although it’s unclear whether it was authorized by [...]
Karen Floyd To LLR?
S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley is considering naming Karen Floyd to her cabinet, multiple sources at the S.C. State House tell FITS.
Specifically, the former SCGOP chairwoman is being considered as the next head of the S.C. Department of Labor Licensing and Regulation (SCLLR).
Why is that interesting? Well, Floyd has been leading the charge to get current [...]
SCDHEC Board Selects Catherine Templeton
The S.C. Board of Health and Environmental Control is pleased to announce that it has completed its search for our new Commissioner. Over the last four months, the Board and its search committee have reviewed several hundred applications, conducted numerous interviews and brought three very qualified candidates before the full Board. We are thankful to [...]
Haley Warned Regarding Templeton Appointment
S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley has been warned by State Senators to expect a “difficult fight” if she nominates a controversial cabinet member as the next commissioner of the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control (SCDHEC).
Haley is widely-expected to choose Catherine Templeton – the embattled director of the S.C. Department of Labor Licensing and Regulation [...]
SCDHEC Port Decision A “Rash Reversal”
The reviews are trickling in regarding S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley’s shockingly short-sighted approach to managing our state’s port assets – and as you might expect, they’re not good.
For those of you who haven’t been following Haley’s seismic sellout of South Carolina’s best interests, ten days ago her appointees to the S.C. Department of Health and [...]
Haley Chief Of Staff Accused Of Pressuring Attorney General
S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley’s chief of staff has been accused of improperly attempting to pressure S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson regarding his involvement in an inter-agency legal dispute over a controversial port project benefiting the state of Georgia.
Sources close to Wilson dispute the allegation against Tim Pearson – but multiple Attorney General staffers confirm that [...]
Tom Davis Praises Decision By Savannah River Maritime Commission
STATEMENT BY TOM DAVIS ON ACTION TAKEN TODAY BY THE SAVANNAH RIVER MARITIME COMMISSION RE: THE SHEP WATER QUALITY PERMIT
November 14, 2011
Today’s decision by the Savannah River Maritime Commission (the “Maritime Commission”) to challenge last week’s decision by the board of directors of the Department of Health and Environmental Control (the “DHEC Board”) to green-light [...]
