Another day, another South Carolina state agency banning its employees from reading FITS ... According to our sources, the S.C. Department of Insurance (SCDOI) - part of Gov. Nikki Haley's cabinet - is the latest state agency to prohibit its employees from accessing this website. Other taxpayer-funded
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For those of you unfamiliar with how the game works at the South Carolina State House, there are politicians who go along to get along (padding their pockets in the process) and politicians who buck the status quo in an effort to protect the taxpayers. Invariably there are plenty of the former and
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Our little idea to more directly (and instantaneously) engage reader tips, questions and comments with a (pseudo) daily "wire" post is paying some dividends. In fact the idea is so popular that we really need to come up with a name for this new feature. We were originally going to call it the "tip
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S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley's effort to put down rumors of an imminent indictment on tax charges entered a new, more aggressive phase late Thursday when she sought to frame the furor as the byproduct of unaccountable, unethical new media. "Sorry fellas. I'm not going anywhere no matter how many lies you
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GOVERNOR PUSHES BACK AGAINST INDICTMENT RUMORS As reports of "imminent" indictments continue to swirl around the S.C. State House, Gov. Nikki Haley is denying any connection to an Internal Revenue Service probe of the Sikh Temple run by her father, Ajit S. Randhawa. Specifically, Haley is refuting allegations
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If S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley is being indicted next week, it's news to her office ... Haley spokesman Rob Godfrey told The (Charleston, S.C.) Post and Courier that she has received neither a target letter nor a subject letter from the U.S. Department of Justice or the Internal Revenue Service. That
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GOVERNOR'S "SIKH TEMPLE SCANDAL" COULD BE COMING TO A HEAD The South Carolina State House is swirling with rumors of a possible "imminent" indictment of Gov. Nikki Haley. In fact one left-leaning blog, Palmetto Public Record (PPR), is reporting that Haley could be indicted by the end of the week
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NIKKI HALEY'S FAMILY TEMPLE HAS BEEN UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR NEARLY A YEAR For the last year, FITS has been the only news outlet in the state reporting on an ongoing federal investigation into alleged financial irregularities at the Sikh Religious Society of South Carolina - a.k.a. the "Sikh Temple." In
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GOVERNOR'S OFFICE TRIES TO DISTANCE ITSELF FROM DEFEATED CANDIDATE Shortly after S.C. Senate "Majority" Leader Harvey Peeler was defeated in his bid to become President of the State Senate, Gov. Nikki Haley's administration attempted to quash reports that she sought to influence the Senatorial election
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As reported exclusively by FITS, S.C. Lt. Gov. Ken Ard resigned his office on Friday in the wake of a criminal investigation into multiple campaign finance violations - as well as the lies he told trying to conceal those violations from investigators. The "Republican in Name Only" from Pamplico, S.C.
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One of the most self-serving, fiscally-liberal, morally-bankrupt politicians ever to take the floor of the South Carolina Senate (and trust us ... that's saying something) wants to come back after a four-year hiatus. John Hawkins (RINO-Spartanburg) - a left-leaning personal injury lawyer who retired
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For those of you unfamiliar with S.C. Ways and Means committee chairman Brian White (RINO-Anderson), he's representative of a lot of folks who hail from "The Land That Time Forgot." What do we mean by that? Well, let's just say there's a reason White doesn't list his college education on his
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