Yvonne Wenger
Yvonne Wenger covers state government, the governor's office and politics for The Post and Courier from the paper's Statehouse bureau. She took over the beat in 2006 after covering Berkeley County. Wenger moved to South Carolina from Pennsylvania in 2005 with all of her belongings packed inside her blue Honda Civic. She graduated from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania in 2002 with a double major in mass communications and political science and previously worked for the Reading (Pa.) Eagle. She lives just outside of Columbia with her unapologetic Redskins' fan of a husband, Artie Nordstrom, and their two hound dogs, Alistair and Riggins.
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Lawmakers have full plate this year
Money, Chas. port lead 2012 session
COLUMBIA -- South Carolina lawmakers are about to embark on their 2012 session, but how much will their work in the next six months change the lives of the men, women and children who call this state home?
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Clean out a closet, help your neighbor
Want to make room in the closet for a new Christmas gift?
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State's voter ID measure blocked
S.C. leaders will fight U.S. ruling
South Carolinians won't need a picture ID to vote after all. That is unless the state can figure out a way to change the mind of an assistant U.S. attorney general or persuade a federal judge in Washington, D.C., that South Carolina's new voter ID law does not discriminate against minorities.
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Gingrich immigration plan: U.S. border would be secured
Newt Gingrich said Friday that if he were president he would tell the U.S. Justice Department to drop all of its lawsuits against American states, including one in South Carolina over the Palmetto State's anti-illegal immigration law.
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South Carolina’s Voter ID law struck down
Fed: law would affect minorities more than whites and create a significant burden for them.
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Gingrich gives wide-ranging stump speech in Columbia
COLUMBIA — Newt Gingrich said today that if he wins South Carolina’s GOP nomination for president, he thinks it will give him the momentum to win nationally and take on President Barack Obama.
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Judge bars Occupy camp in Columbia
The Occupy protesters were handed an eviction notice Thursday: They can march on the Statehouse grounds 24 hours a day, but they can't sleep there and their tents must go.
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Occupy Columbia protestors cannot camp at Statehouse, may protest around the clock
COLUMBIA - ThU.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie let stand a rule passed Tuesday by the South Carolina Budget and Control Board.e Occupy Columbia protesters will be allowed to protest 24 hours a day at the statehouse but they can't camp or sleep on the grounds, a federal court judge ruled Thursday.
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Ruling on Statehouse Occupy protesters could come today
A federal court judge could decide as early as today whether the Occupy protesters, who have camped out at the Statehouse for the past two months, have the right to stay or if Gov. Nikki Haley is right to kick them off the grounds.
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Zais blasted over denial of grants
Superintendent of Education Mick Zais is pitting a political fad against the future of South Carolina schoolchildren, state Rep. Joe Neal said Tuesday during a Statehouse rally.
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