NEWS: School for at-risk students is at risk in bigger state budget
By Bill Davis, senior editor | The news this budget season isn't so rosy for the John de la Howe School, a public residential school in McCormick for at-risk students. The House committee version of...
View ArticleBRIEFS: Budget process starts second phase; training in Charleston
Staff reports | The Senate Finance Committee will start its budget process next week with various meetings in which senators will take up components of the just-passed $8 billion House budget and mold...
View ArticleBRIEFS: Senate passes budget; Pension reform heads to governor
Staff reports | The state Senate relatively quickly passed a relatively non-controversial $8 billion state budget this week that added about $25 million to public K-12 education than provide in an...
View ArticleNEWS: Clock is ticking on shortened legislative session
By Bill Davis, senior editor | With only a month left in this year’s legislative session, the state General Assembly appears to be about halfway through its agenda of “big ticket” items – the annual...
View ArticleBRIEFS: General Assembly to return; Unemployment drops
Staff reports | The S.C. House and Senate are scheduled to return to Columbia Tuesday to finalize a budget compromise. But they’ve got a problem: House and Senate negotiators are at an impasse over the...
View ArticleTOP FIVE: From ethics and MOX to education and back to ethics
Five stories you may have missed: 1. Ethics decision awaits Senate action 2. Trump budget shouldn't kill MOX facility at SRS 3. Sanford invokes Goldilocks in describing Trump budget 4. Americans want...
View ArticleBRIEF: On state budget, breathe Chicken Little, breathe
Staff reports | There seems to be an alarmist tone in the coverage in traditional media about the state’s $8 billion annual budget on how use state tax dollars. It goes like this: The House and Senate...
View ArticleBRIEFS: Agreement on budget; Trump’s testy tweet; Pension dodge
Staff reports | House and Senate conferees finished negotiations on a compromise $8 billion budget for state taxes just an hour before June 1 arrived. Highlights are in public education, pension reform...
View ArticleBRACK: Letter to Santa addresses S.C.’s needs
Dear Santa, South Carolina is a poor state with a lot of challenges. This holiday, please give state officials the courage to deal with these needs and pet peeves: Boo to tail-gaters. Too many people...
View ArticleNEWS: Weak revenues, projected shortfall to guide state budget
By Lindsay Street, Statehouse correspondent | Slower growth for state revenues and a projected $40 million shortfall mean the annual state budget is unlikely to satiate many. And caught in the middle...
View Article2/23: Snowbirds and the budget; Gun reform; Black Voters Matter
NEWS: Snowbirds, other retirees could impact S.C. budget, experts say BRIEFS: A look at “personhood” bill, new budget numbers, and tax reform CALENDAR: Budget work moves forward, more TALLY SHEET:...
View ArticleNEWS: Snowbirds, other retirees could impact S.C. budget, experts say
By Lindsay Street, Statehouse correspondent | Sometime in the last year or so, the retiree population began to outnumber school-age children in South Carolina. The burgeoning elder population is...
View Article3/9, full issue: On S.C.’s proposed budget; Hardship and the South; Property...
INSIDE STATEHOUSE REPORT, March 9, 2018 NEWS: Rising health care costs eat up new state revenues BRIEFS: On the death penalty, abortion, time, plastic bags, more CALENDAR: Child advocate bill...
View ArticleNEWS: Rising health care costs eat up new state revenues
By Lindsay Street, Statehouse correspondent | Like any household budget, rising health care costs are dominating the state’s 2018-19 budget which House members begin debating Monday. Employee health...
View Article3/30, full issue: Education funding; Climate change; Drilling offshore
INSIDE THIS WEEK'S FULL ISSUE: NEWS: New budget keeps underfunding education by hundreds of millions BRIEFS: Filing closes, medical marijuana, and more CALENDAR: Liquor, contraceptives, school chief...
View ArticleNEWS: New budget keeps underfunding education by hundreds of millions
By Lindsay Street, Statehouse correspondent | Education advocates in the state are cheerleading the Senate’s draft budget for its focus on K-12 education, but they say work still needs to be done to...
View ArticleNEWS: The 2018 session: What’s done and what’s not finished
By Lindsay Street, Statehouse correspondent | The second year of the biennial session wrapped up Thursday with some big items left undone, including funding state government and lawmakers’ response to...
View ArticleNEWS: State response to federal tax reform will have big impact
By Lindsay Street, Statehouse correspondent | Tens of millions of state revenues hang in the balance depending on whether the General Assembly runs out the legislative clock on updating the state’s...
View Article6/29, all: Teachers get raise; Campaign issues; Offshore drilling
NEWS: Lawmakers boost public education, but shortfall still exists NEWS BRIEFS: Gas tax to increase, child welfare, vetoes, more COMMENTARY, Brack: Age, Trump will drive fall gubernatorial election...
View ArticleNEWS: Lawmakers boost public education, but shortfall still exists
By Lindsay Street, Statehouse correspondent | It’s hard to get excited about 1 percent of anything, but education advocates are calling a 1-percent pay raise for S.C. teachers a step — albeit a...
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