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REPORT CARDS ISSUED FOR STATE LEADERS … Last week the pollsters at Morning Consult released their data on the home-state popularity of all 100 United...
South Carolina
Hermine Hits South Carolina
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TROPICAL SYSTEM MOVING THROUGH PALMETTO STATE … Tropical Storm Hermine crossed into South Carolina at around 2:00 p.m. EDT on Friday – bringing maximum sustained...
SC Human Trafficking Allegations Under Investigation
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FEDS DIGGING … State law enforcement sources are confirming the existence of a multi-jurisdictional federal investigation into allegations of human trafficking in South Carolina. This website...
Palmetto Labor Participation Rate Slips Further
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SOUTH CAROLINA WORKFORCE IS SHRINKING AGAIN … The percentage of South Carolina’s working age population that’s participating in the labor force dipped again in July...
Dem Poll: SC Tidbits
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MORE NUMBERS … We’re taking this week’s S.C. Democratic Party-commissioned poll – the one that shows GOP nominee Donald Trump in a dogfight with Democrat Hillary...
Dem Poll: Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump In SC Dogfight
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DEMOCRATIC SURVEY SHOWS PRESIDENTIAL RACE WITHIN MARGIN OF ERROR … A new survey produced by a Democratic polling firm in North Carolina has tongues wagging...
Heed GOP Platform On Education
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“REPUBLICANS” GET RHETORIC RIGHT ON SCHOOL CHOICE There’s a lot not to like about the 2016 “Republican” party platform (.pdf). Just ask South Carolina’s libertarian-leaning State...
Allison Howard: Ware Shoals’ Shame
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RAPE ALLEGATION EXPOSES LAW ENFORCEMENT’S INSENSITIVITY TO SEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIMS || By ALLISON HOWARD || Ware Shoals, S.C. has a problem. The town’s crime rate is 157...
South Carolina: Where Reform Goes To Die
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LOOKING BACK AT A BOTCHED BID TO FIX STATE GOVERNMENT A little more than eight years ago, our founding editor Will Folks drafted a comprehensive reform blueprint for...
North Carolina Marches Forward On Tax Relief
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TAR HEEL STATE ADDS $200 MILLION TO ITS ONGOING TAX CUTS While South Carolina borrows billions of dollars to prop up its crumbling infrastructure and...