A news analysis by Andy Brack | The 2015 session of the General Assembly will go down as the Year of the Turtle. Far more didn’t happen than could have. Missed opportunities trumped progress on everything from more road funding to improving education to passing long-sought ethics reform, according to many observers this week.
Most voters and leaders generally agree that something major needs to be done on roads, which have $40 billion in funding needs, as well as ethics reform, long in the spotlight following last year’s scandal that brought down a House speaker. But the devil has been in the details and lack of common ground among lawmakers, notes College of Charleston political science professor Gibbs Knotts.
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