Back when our founding editor was in graduate school, all the tweed-wearing fuddy-duddies used to gather in the professor's lounge to nibble on danishes, sip expensive coffees and thumb through the pages of the Columbia Journalism Review, a magazine published bi-monthly by the Columbia University Graduate
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You can do it ... take a sip from your vodka tonic, smooth out that white skirt (with the black boy shorts underneath it, of course) and crank up John Mayer on the CD changer of your Cadillac SUV as you ease back in the seat. Go ahead ... climb inside the mind of S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley for a moment
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In anticipation of a bloody 2012 election cycle for RINO incumbents in South Carolina, FITS founding editor Will Folks (a.k.a. Sic Willie) announced this week that he was forming a new political action committee aimed at ousting fiscally liberal lawmakers and replacing them with strong fiscal conservatives. "I
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The battle over the location of South Carolina's new seventh congressional district is heating up - with "Republicans" in the S.C. House and "Republicans" in the State Senate proposing drastically different redistricting maps. The Palmetto state picked up a seventh district thanks to population gains
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S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley is reportedly considering a major ideological shift to the right in an effort to reclaim her Tea Party base and prop up her disappointing poll numbers. Sources familiar with Haley's contemplated "political reorientation" say that the first-term governor may also be on the verge
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The Palmetto state is once again home to double digit unemployment ... South Carolina's unemployment rate climbed to 10 percent in May - its first increase under the watch of new governor Nikki Haley. Meanwhile the state's "underemployment" rate - a broader, more accurate measure of joblessness -
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RE: "A New Inspector" Dear Editor, I'm pleased that Governor Nikki Haley has found a replacement for former S.C. Inspector General George Schroeder, and I wish the new guy all the best. How big is this challenge? How much fraud is out there in state government? One "metric" to consider is the
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S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley named a new Inspector General on Tuesday - although the fiasco involving her first choice for this toothless office has left a bad taste in the mouths of many reformers. Also, rather than addressing the controversy directly Haley chose to throw her recently-departed appointee under
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A decision earlier this month to place S.C. Comptroller General Richard Eckstrom in command of the South Carolina State Guard is being questioned given his widely-publicized affair and high-profile divorce. Eckstrom was named interim commander of the State Guard earlier this month. Since then, numerous
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During his 2002 campaign for governor, Mark Sanford laid out perhaps the most ambitious reform agenda that the state of South Carolina has ever seen. On taxes, spending, education and government restructuring, Sanford offered specific, substantive plans to improve our state's competitive position. Nearly
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South Carolina supporters of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie are launching a movement aimed at drafting the rotund Republican into presidential service this week. Led by Florence Rep. Kris Crawford, a group of state lawmakers will roll out their "Draft Christie" movement at the S.C. State House on
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Assuming S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley agrees to give Palmetto Democrats what they want (i.e. two weeks before each election to mount a massive early voting effort), she could get a two-thirds vote on her watered down government restructuring proposals during the S.C. General Assembly's extended session. But
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