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NEWS BRIEFS: General Assembly adjourns after passing budget, bond reform

This year's S.C. General Assembly officially ended this week following enactment of a number of GOP-favored priorities, including a new six-week abortion ban, reform of the state’s bail bond system, a...

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BRACK: Establishment brushes off self-anointed Freedom Caucus

By Andy Brack  |  There are always theatrics during the state’s annual budget process, but most of the time they seem limited to a minority party desperately trying to be heard so that the majority...

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BIG STORY: Teacher pay, tax cuts highlight ‘lean’ $13.2 billion House budget

By Jack O'Toole | Pay raises for teachers and state workers along with tax cuts on homes and incomes are at the heart of a new $13.2 billion state budget that passed Wednesday in the S.C. House of...

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NEW for 4/19: Senate budget, $1.8B scandal; the weird turn pro

INSIDE ISSUE 23.16  |  April 19, 2024 BIG STORY: Senate budget would fund med, vet schools MORE NEWS:  Senators blast Loftis over $1.8B scandal LOWCOUNTRY, Ariail: Springtime COMMENTARY, Brack:  The...

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BIG STORY: Proposed Senate budget would fund med, vet schools

By Jack O’Toole  |  If provisions of the state's proposed budget become law, the University of South Carolina and Clemson University would get enough money to complete projects they call...

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NEW for 4/26: Top 10 bill status report; Weaver; kindness

INSIDE ISSUE 23.17  |  April 26, 2024 BIG STORY: Clock ticks down for these 10 top bills MORE NEWS:  Ignore new federal LGBTQ rules, Weaver says LOWCOUNTRY, Ariail: The “Bubba” treatment for cicadas...

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BIG STORY: Session ends with lots of unfinished business

As the 2024 session of the South Carolina General Assembly ended Thursday, lawmakers of both parties were more focused on the bills that failed than those that passed.  Senate Minority Leader Brad...

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NEW for 6/28: On energy reform, book ban, Revolutionary War, immigration

INSIDE ISSUE 23.26  |  June 28, 2024 BIG STORY: Critical energy reforms needed soon, experts say MORE NEWS:  Book ban denounced by free speech advocates LOWCOUNTRY, Ariail:  Oh, the stupidity BRACK:...

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MORE NEWS: S.C. book ban denounced by free speech advocates 

By Jack O’Toole, Capitol bureau  |  Free speech groups on both sides of the political aisle are blasting a new South Carolina Department of Education (SCDE) regulation that empowers state officials to...

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NEW for 7/5: On hemp, vetoes and elections

INSIDE ISSUE 23.27  | July 5, 2024 BIG STORY:  Hemp farmers struggle after market collapsed MORE NEWS:  McMaster vetoes $2.3M in $14B budget LOWCOUNTRY, Ariail:  On the DOT and trees COMMENTARY, Brack:...

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MORE NEWS: McMaster vetoes $2.3 million in state budget

By Jack O’Toole, Capitol bureau  |  S.C. Gov. Henry McMaster vetoed 21 budget items worth $2.3 million in state spending Wednesday. That’s slightly less than 0.02% of the $14 billion 2024-25 budget...

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BIG STORY: A look back at the big Statehouse stories of 2024

By Jack O’Toole, Capitol bureau  |  Referring to the ideological conflicts that occasionally roiled his administration, President Ronald Reagan once winkingly noted that "sometimes our right hand...

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NEW for 4/25: What’s left; Pay raise; Trade troubles

INSIDE ISSUE 24.17 | April 25, 2025 BIG STORY:  Big issues unresolved with few days left in session MORE NEWS: Pay raise overshadows Senate budget items LOWCOUNTRY, Ariail: What strategy? BRACK: Stop...

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Statehouse Report 24.22: Budget pain, wins, carnage

INSIDE  ISSUE 24.22  | May 30, 2025 BIG STORY:  GOP budget to hurt hundreds of thousands in S.C., experts say  MORE NEWS: Teachers, taxpayers, legislators win in state budget LOWCOUNTRY, Ariail:  You...

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