By Curtis Loftis || More than 15,000 low-income students attend private schools in South Carolina. Their parents scrimp and save. They make sacrifices. They’ve put their children’s education at the top of the family’s financial priority list. Those parents also pay taxes. More than $8.5 million
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"IT'S A GREAT DAY IN SOUTH CAROLINA," PEOPLES While S.C. Senators bicker and argue over who should run the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control (SCDHEC), a much larger story involving this agency has gone completely unreported by the state's mainstream media. Last week, Brazil announced
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While S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley and the "Republican-controlled" General Assembly in South Carolina continue to grow government at recklessly exorbitant levels, the ability of Palmetto State taxpayers to pick up this soaring tab continues to shrink. According to data published by the U.S. Census, South
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NEWS FLASH: THIS MAN'S STATE IS MORE COMPETITIVE THAN SOUTH CAROLINA While researching an especially inflammatory post previewing this week's Inbred ... err, Orange Bowl match-up between the Clemson University Tigers and the West Virginia Mountaineers, we stumbled upon this press release from the
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For once, we agree with S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley ... In attempting to sell the conservative virtues of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney to South Carolina voters this weekend, Haley declared that there is "no such thing" as a Tea Party candidate. She's right ... There is no such thing as a
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We haven't paid much attention to The Greenville News since it went to a subscription-based format for web content last summer ... and judging by the paper's steadily-declining internet traffic, neither have you. Anyway, thank the Gannett Gods for the paper's print subscriptions, right? Although we
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U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota) will do her best to generate a little momentum for her flagging presidential campaign during a six-stop t tour of early-voting South Carolina this weekend. Except that's not really the purpose of her visit ... First, take a look at Bachmann's itinerary: Friday,
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Clemson University's nightmarish 37-13 loss to N.C. State on Saturday sent head coach Dabo Swinney's football team tumbling in the national polls. The Tigers (9-2, 6-2 ACC) fell ten spots from No. 7 to No. 17 in this week's Bowl Championship Series (BCS) standings - killing their long shot national
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Despite being accused of sexually harassing multiple women, Herman Cain remains the frontrunner in the Palmetto State's "First in the South" presidential primary. In fact, a new poll shows him with a narrow lead among older, conservative voters - who turn out in droves in South Carolina. According
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South Carolina has the fourth-highest rate of premature births in the entire nation, according to a recent report released by the March of Dimes. Based on preliminary 2009 data obtained from the National Center for Health Statistics, 14.5 percent of all live births in South Carolina were classified
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We've made it clear on this website that South Carolina's latest so-called "immigration reform" legislation is a joke ... just like the legislation our "Republican-controlled" General Assembly passed in 2008. While the latest bill creates a new government bureaucracy tasked with collecting immigration
Read story »FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 19, 2011 BAF Educational Fund Announces South Carolina Chapter Columbia, S.C. - Building America’s Future Educational Fund – a bipartisan and national infrastructure coalition – announced today the launch of their South Carolina chapter, including a slate of
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