Studies show taxpayer incentives for sports franchises are a terrible deal ...
BUYOUTS, LAYOFFS … Just as South Carolinians were picking their jaws up off the floor following a shocking decision by government-run utility Santee Cooper to shutter a job-creating...
YET THE GIVEAWAYS ARE ESCALATING … Five years ago this website ran a story about the Palmetto State’s over-reliance on crony capitalist incentives – a.k.a. “corporate welfare” –...
MAKING FRIENDS IN UNEXPECTED PLACES … Earlier this week our website did a major exposé on a “dark money” shakedown effectuated under the auspices (actually inside...
THIS IS THE DEFINITION OF NON-ESSENTIAL GOVERNMENT … Taxpayers in Dorchester County, S.C. are on the hook for a $4 million speculative real estate investment –...
BASICALLY, EVERYTHING IS NEGOTIABLE … Crony capitalist aircraft manufacturer Boeing is responding to U.S. president-elect Donald Trump‘s criticism of its “out of control” Air Force One...
LAWSUITS THREATENED AGAINST CRONY CAPITALIST ORGANIZATION … A Lowcountry businessman is irate after being denied membership in the uber-liberal S.C. Chamber of Commerce. Skip Hoagland –...
NOT A “GREAT DAY IN SOUTH CAROLINA” FOR GDP EXPANSION Need further evidence of the failure of South Carolina’s government-driven, crony capitalist approach to economic development?...
GOP VOTERS REJECT GLOBAL TRADE AGENDA || By RICK MANNING || The Michigan primary results on Tuesday signal a quantum shift in GOP voter attitudes on...
GOVERNOR HONORED BY ORGANIZATION SHE ONCE (RIGHTFULLY) CONDEMNED When she was elected governor in 2010, then-S.C. Rep. Nikki Haley was a Tea Partier who decried crony...