SC Labor Participation Rate Slips To 59 Percent
PALMETTO STATE WORKFORCE STILL SHRINKING … South Carolina’s unemployment rate dipped below five percent last month for the first time since 2001 – its fifth...
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Lawsuit Challenges SC “Roads Bill”
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WATCHDOG SAYS $2.2 BILLION BORROWING BILL IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL … A government watchdog based out of Greenville, S.C. is asking the Palmetto State’s Supreme Court to...
SC House GOP Caucus Retreat Canceled
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HURRICANE MATTHEW WASHES OUT EVENT … “Republican” members of the S.C. House of Representatives have canceled their annual retreat thanks to Hurricane Matthew. The event was supposed...
SC Labor Participation Still Falling
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PALMETTO WORKFORCE SHRINKS AGAIN … The percentage of working age South Carolinians who are part of the labor force dipped again during the month of August,...
Letter: Private Sector Employees Can’t Afford Nikki Haley’s Evacuation “Vacation”
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GOVERNMENT-MANDATED EVACUATION “NOT ECONOMICALLY FEASIBLE” Dear Editor, You do realize that Nikki Haley gave all state employees a three-day taxpayer-funded vacation, from Wednesday through Friday? How...
SCDOT Scandal: Death Under Investigation
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BIGGER ISSUE REMAINS “CULTURE OF CORRUPTION” The sudden death of a former S.C. Department of Transportation (SCDOT) official last week is reportedly being investigated in connection...
2018: Why Yancey McGill’s Gubernatorial Campaign Is For Real
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THE “GODFATHER OF PORK” HAS HIS BACK … As the 2018 South Carolina gubernatorial campaign begins to take shape, we know two things: First, that the...
SC Budget: Shrinking Surplus
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THE “NEW MONEY” GRAVY TRAIN IS LOSING STEAM … Last month we did a story on South Carolina’s slowing revenue growth – which dipped from 7.3 percent during...
SC Coast: Diversify Or Die
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PALMETTO STATE’S TOURISM ECONOMY MUST EVOLVE … OR CEASE TO EXIST One of the most disappointing things about South Carolina is that it is needlessly...
Watch Out, Joe Wilson!
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THE WASHINGTON ESTABLISHMENT IS COMING FOR YOU! Political fortune giveth, and political fortune taketh away … Look no further than the meteoric decline of S.C....