A THREE-DECADE DEBACLE … Familiar with the debacle involving the S.C. Department of Social Services (SCDSS) child support enforcement database? If you are a Palmetto State...
STATE COLLECTIONS COMING UP SHORT … Annual revenues to the state of South Carolina grew by 4.3 percent during the fiscal year that ended on June...
SENATE LEADER BRISTLES AT “OLD GUARD” SLIGHT FROM NIKKI HALEY Powerful S.C. Senate president Hugh Leatherman stormed out of a contentious meeting of state fiscal leaders this...
TAXPAYERS WILL BE ON THE HOOK FOR THE FALLOUT, TOO … South Carolina’s State Fiscal Accountability Authority (SFAA) is a relatively new animal. It was created...
HUGH LEATHERMAN ENTRUSTS RICHARD QUINN WITH THE FIGHT OF HIS POLITICAL LIFE Unrivaled and unquestioned for years, South Carolina’s most powerful politician suddenly finds himself waging a two-front...
FITSNEWS.COM BLASTED FOR ITS ROLE … REFERRED TO AS AN “OVER THE TOP PUBLICATION” Attorneys for Brad Eckstrom – the son of S.C. comptroller general Richard Eckstrom...
UPDATE ON MARYLAND CASE WITH PALMETTO STATE CONNECTIONS Remember the rumor that our founding editor, Will Folks, had fathered a child out of wedlock? With a...
Brad Eckstrom – the son of S.C. Comptroller General Richard Eckstrom – is suing his ex-fiancee for full custody of their minor child. This, of course,...
MORE KINDLING … || By FITSNEWS || South Carolina’s big-spending “Republican” leadership has another $87 million to spend courtesy of better-than-expected tax returns. And yes, that’s...
SOMETHING’S GOT TO GIVE … || By FITSNEWS || One day, something has to give in the metronomic love affair between “family values” S.C. comptroller general Richard...
