First-term Irmo Mayor Barry Walker announced Sept. 26 that he had tested positive for the coronavirus. The mayor’s wife, Susan, also got COVD-19, Walker said on social media. “As you know I’m …
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A federal judge has said that witness signatures should not be required for South Carolina voters casting absentee ballots this year as the CO…
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Even though her possible move to take a job in Ohio didn’t happen, South Carolina’s public health director is still exiting her role with the …
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Have you ever gone to the fridge late at night, surveyed the options and decided you might as well finish off the leftovers? State-owned utili…
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Congaree Riverkeeper is among several groups across the South suing President Donald Trump’s administration over recent rollbacks of the Natio…
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Not so fast, governor. A judge hit the pause button, at least temporarily, on Republican Gov. Henry McMaster’s plan to put $32 million in fede…
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South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson’s office has issued an opinion about the constitutionality of the Heritage Act, the 20-year-old la…
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After nearly a year as the interim director of the embattled Columbia Housing Authority, Ivory Mathews has been named the executive director a…
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You can’t accuse U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn of holding back in his thoughts about Republican President Donald Trump. As reported by Jamie Lovegrove…
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Columbia state Rep. Beth Bernstein and attorney Overture Walker, a candidate for Richland County Council, are locked in a legal dispute, with …
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The South Carolina House of Representatives has passed a measure that would prevent state and local detention centers from shackling pregnant …
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In a deal that’s been brewing for a while, the NFL’s Carolina Panthers scored a major win in their efforts to establish a new headquarters and…
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Well, here’s a novel idea: The South Carolina Legislature is going to actually get around to addressing how the state budget will work for the…
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Expanding access to absentee voting for the upcoming election primaries would seem like a no-brainer. We are in the midst of the coronavirus p…
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It’s pretty rare for the numbers in a fundraising battle between political candidates in South Carolina to more closely resemble the multi-mil…
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For months, there have been debates at the Statehouse about how the Legislature would choose to spend what was expected to be a $1.9 billion b…
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It briefly appeared that Moe Baddourah, the businessman and former two-term Columbia City Councilman, was going to run for South Carolina Sena…
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What a difference a few weeks can make. South Carolina job numbers hit record highs in February, before the sweeping coronavirus pandemic crep…
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As the economy continues to grind to a halt amid the coronavirus pandemic, the chief justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court took a demons…
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Give Republican state Sen. Tom Davis credit: He’s persistent. The Beaufort Republican has been working for years to try and get medical mariju…
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