DEAL? OR NO DEAL? Six South Carolina lawmakers have been tasked with reconciling major differences between S.C. House and State Senate versions of a proposed gasoline...
MINORITY PARTY’S GUBERNATORIAL PRIMARY IN FLUX … Does it matter who the Democratic nominee for governor of South Carolina is in 2018? No … not at...
BACKROOM DEAL NETS $1 MILLION IN ADDITIONAL SCHOLARSHIP MONEY … South Carolina’s fledgling school choice program might be expanding this year after all … but not...
CONTROVERSIAL MEASURE NOW ONE STEP AWAY FROM GOVERNOR’S DESK … By a 14-7 margin, a South Carolina Senate panel has voted to advance a five-year, $1.8...
THE MORE THINGS CHANGE … This week “leaders” of the S.C. General Assembly invited members of the mainstream media to Columbia, S.C. for a preview of the...
NIKKI HALEY’S OUTGOING REVENUE DIRECTOR FOCUS OF INTENSE SPECULATION … Soon-to-be former S.C. Department of Revenue (SCDOR) director Rick Reames dropped a pre-Thanksgiving bombshell on the Palmetto...
POST-MORTEM ON ONE OF SOUTH CAROLINA DEMOCRATS’ BIGGEST FAILURES … For the past six years, South Carolina Democrats have been telling anyone who would listen that...
STATE SENATE BID LOOMING? Rick Reames hasn’t been the prototypical cabinet official … For starters, he’s run a competent agency – which obviously makes him quite...
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...
INSIDE THE DEBATE TO TAKE DOWN THE CONFEDERATE FLAG IN SOUTH CAROLINA || By FITSNEWS || Barring any unforeseen surprises, the Confederate flag will be removed from...