The S.C. Policy Council raised an estimated $1.4 million in 2009 - the year leading up to its launch of a new media venture that has spectacularly flopped. The on-again, off-again supporters of S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley spent $1.2 million that year - twice what they spent in 2008. That total included
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Taxpayers know that S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley's administration spent at least $127,000 on a ritzy "European Vacation" - her administration's preferred method of picking winners and losers in the marketplace. They also know that Haley made a bad situation worse when she responded to criticism of her extravagant
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The numbers are in for the month of April and once again FITS News is the undisputed "King of New Media" in the Palmetto state. According to data from Compete.com, FITS received 76,768 unique visits during the month of April. That's an increase of nearly 8 percent from the previous month's traffic.
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The numbers are in for March 2011 and FITSNews is ... surprise, surprise ... still the undisputed king of the S.C. political blogosphere. According to the latest data from Compete.com, FITS recorded nearly 71,500 unique visits during the month of March. That’s one of our best months ever – and
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Surprise, surprise ... FITS is still the undisputed king of the S.C. political blogosphere. Not only that, we're driving record traffic to other political web sites thanks to our new "post" column. According to the latest data from Compete.com, FITS recorded nearly 70,000 unique visits during the
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For the last four years, our competition in the South Carolina political blogosphere has been pretty much nonexistent ... One by one, GOP consultant-driven websites like The Shot, Palmetto Scoop and Wolfe Reports have all come and gone ... while even well-funded "independent" ventures like The Nerve
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We don't blame S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley's administration for refusing to take our phone calls or respond to our emails ... After all, our founding editor broke her heart. Bad. On top of that, we haven't been particularly accommodating of Haley's metamorphosis from Tea Party fiscal conservative to whatever
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S.C. Gov.-elect Nikki Haley is once again sparring with the leader of the Palmetto state's largest fiscally conservative think tank - the latest insider drama to befall what can only be described as a turbulent transition to power for the so-called darling of the Tea Party movement. Sources tell FITS
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Where are the people of South Carolina getting their news? Right here, of course. While FITS has always been a favorite of the state's powerful, political elite - business leaders, lawmakers, lobbyists, agency heads, etc. - our website continues to expand further into the "mainstream." Meanwhile
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In a feisty speech to reformers in Aiken, S.C. last week, State Senator Tom Davis (R-Beaufort) blasted Senate President Pro Tempore Glenn McConnell (RINO-Charleston) - accusing the thirty-year incumbent and his fellow "Republicans in Name Only" in the S.C. Senate of mocking supporters of transparency
Read story »By FITSNews || We may never know how much money the S.C. Policy Council received to launch The Nerve - its new "citizen reporter" website. We also may never know where all of that money came from. One thing we do know? The experiment has been an unmitigated failure. The new media website that
Read story »By FITSNews || Stop the presses! Somebody shut down SCHotline today, which we're guessing is probably a huge, huge deal to the five mentally imbalanced senior citizens who still receive their "news" from the once-proud website. A decade ago, when internet "journalism" was in its infancy, SCHotline
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