COLUMBIA, S.C. – The South Carolina Board of Health and Environmental Control will meet via conference call on Wednesday, April 17, 2013, at 3:45 p.m. The Board Room, #3420, 2600 Bull St., Columbia, S.C. will be open for the public to listen to the proceedings.
Discussion will include the status of the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project. [...]
SCDHEC Public Conference Call Scheduled
SCDHEC Slammed For Security Costs
South Carolina’s Department of Health and Environmental Control (SCDHEC) is catching flak for requesting $1.5 million in the upcoming state budget for cyber security enhancements.
The money was requested by SCDHEC director Catherine Templeton – who as far as we can tell has done a pretty good job cutting costs at her agency (not that taxpayers are [...]
Catherine Templeton Makes GOP Watch List
S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control (SCDHEC) director Catherine Templeton was included on a national list of GOP officials to watch in 2013.
The list – published by Governing magazine – included thirteen other prominent GOP officials from across the country.
“She’s ruffled some feathers with personnel housecleaning at her new agency, but those moves have [...]
SC: More Taxpayer-Funded Boot Knockin’
MORE GOVERNMENT LOVE IN THE PALMETTO STATE
Somebody better call the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control (SCDHEC) … because there’s clearly something in the water in the Palmetto State.
Again …
On the heels of our exclusive report detailing yet another sex scandal at one of our government-run schools, Upstate television WYFF TV-4 (NBC – Greenville-Spartanburg, [...]
SCDHEC Saves $46 Million
MORE MONEY FOR TAXPAYER REBATES? DON’T HOLD YOUR BREATH, SOUTH CAROLINA
South Carolina’s Department of Health and Environmental Control (SCDHEC) will not seek a $50 million appropriation in the coming year’s budget for a host of unfunded mandates imposed by state and federal lawmakers, sources at the agency tell FITS.
Agency director Catherine Templeton will seek $4 [...]
Major Shakeup At SCDHEC
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. [...]
Catherine Templeton For Congress?
PROBABLY NOT … BUT A “MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT” IS COMING AT HER AGENCY
Is Catherine Templeton about to resign her post at the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control (SCDHEC) to run for the U.S. Congress?
That’s the hottest rumor in Palmetto political circles this week … one relentlessly stoked by reports of a “major announcement” coming [...]
SCDHEC Backlog No Longer Piling Up
BUT CAN THIS SPRAWLING BUREAUCRACY CLEAR ITS PERMITTING PLATE?
Officials at the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control (SCDHEC) have stopped the bleeding when it comes to a massive backlog of expired environmental permits. But how much progress are they making when it comes to reducing the pile of paperwork sitting on their desks?
Sources near [...]
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 [...]
It’s A Great Day … To Be Fat!
SOUTH CAROLINA’S OBESITY RATE PROJECTED TO SOAR OVER THE NEXT TWO DECADES
Already one of the fattest states in America, South Carolina’s obesity rate is set to soar even higher over the next two decades – to the point where nearly two out of every three Palmetto State residents will be classified as obese.
According to the [...]
