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SC Legislature: 3 final weeks, 2 key issues, 1 race in ’14
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Lobbying for, against the SC garbage bill
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SC legislators: Who got garbage bucks and how they voted
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Garbage giants are major political donors in SC
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SC Senate to take up controversial school-choice proposal
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SC high school graduation exit exam could be history
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SC Senate votes to sell controversial state-owned planes
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Congressman Wilson introduces bill to close Obamacare loophole
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The Buzz: A new first at the SC State House?
State Rep. Ted Vick’s second DUI arrest in a year came in a place that is hard enough to drive around without having a couple glasses of wine – the...
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SC State House for sale
At least 66 former lawmakers, legislative staffers and state regulators have registered to lobby the Legislature in the past two years, according...
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Garbage, garbage everywhere in SC
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POLITICS
Sanford returns to Congress, says he’ll focus on finances
The comeback is complete. Former Gov. Mark Sanford is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives again after being sworn into office Wednesday during a ceremony in the House chamber in Washington, D.C.
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EDUCATION
Sumter doctor wins controversial seat on MUSC board
The father of a state lawmaker won a seat on the Medical University of South Carolina board Wednesday but only after some S.C. senators threatened to walk out in protest.
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POLITICS
SC lawmakers grapple over control of state purchasing
The state House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday that would reorganize state government. It is the fifth time in five years the House has passed a government restructuring bill. But the bill never has made it to the governor’s desk.
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POLITICS
SC probation agency’s request for extra $1.4 million meets resistance
A soon-to-be released audit of the Department of Probation, Pardon and Parole shows the agency has at least $12.5 million in money to spend and a number of positions that have not been filled, according to state Rep. Mike Pitts, R-Laurens, who has seen a summary of the audit.
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CRIME
House bill would scrutinize SC police drones
The extent to which South Carolina’s skies someday may be filled with the soft buzz of unmanned drone surveillance aircraft operated by state and local police agencies could well be determined by a bill now making its way through the S.C. House.
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POLITICS
Legislator’s dad could become 10th college trustee with a tie to a SC lawmaker
The S.C. joint legislative committee that screens candidates to be university trustees did not follow its own precedence in voting to qualify the father of a lawmaker for a seat on the Medical University of South Carolina’s board.
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POLITICS
SC Senate moves to suspend eye-exam rule for drivers
Drivers in violation of a state law requiring them to take an eye exam each five years may be getting a break from the state Senate.
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POLITICS
SC Rep. Vick arrested again for DUI; lawyer blames rock in shoe
A South Carolina state representative's lawyer said a rock in his shoe explains why Rep. Ted Vick was walking funny, catching the attention of an officer who eventually arrested him for DUI.
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POLITICS
Columbia couple sues state over toddler’s sexual-reassignment surgery
The lawsuits, filed Tuesday in state and federal courts, are the first of their kind in the nation, said Ken Suggs, a Columbia-based attorney, who joined Mark and Pam Crawford and other civil-rights advocacy groups to announce the suits.





