IT’S NOT AS SIMPLE AS SOME WOULD HAVE YOU BELIEVE
By Jimmy G. Wiles || A month ago Cindi Ross Scoppe, associate editor of The (Columbia, S.C.) State newspaper, devoted her Sunday column to an expose of South Carolina’s “Legislative State.” Every South Carolina voter should have read her column.
Unfortunately, because of U.S. Senator Jim DeMint’s [...]
Can South Carolina’s Legislative State Ever Be Fixed?
The Incredible Disappearing Nikki Haley Nepotism Story
A CASE STUDY IN THE FAILURE OF OUR GOVERNMENT, MAINSTREAM MEDIA
Last week, this website broke the news that S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley’s fourteen-year-old daughter had been hired to work in the gift shop at the S.C. State House. For those of you keeping tabs of the litany of non-core government functions performed each year with [...]
Ron Morris Addresses Spurrier Situation … Sort Of
University of South Carolina head coach Steve Spurrier’s recent hissy fit toward columnist Ron Morris of The (Columbia, S.C.) State was supposed to produce a series of “Cranky Old Ball Coach” v. “Jack Ass Reporter” standoffs.
It was also supposed to result in the mother of all response columns from Morris.
That’s not how the drama has [...]
Inappropriate Redaction?
According to several sources at the University of South Carolina, there’s a reason that The (Columbia, S.C.) State newspaper omitted any mention of former S.C. Gov. Jim Hodges in its big report on the school’s failed $20 million biomass plant.
They say that information was either redacted or deliberately excluded from the school’s response to a [...]
