The proposed hike is expected to be significant, since the utility could seek to charge customers for up to eight years' worth of unrecovered investments and higher operating costs, dating back to when the utility was known as South Carolina Electric and Gas. Read More >>
As officials prepare for the Nov. 3 election, one certainty is clear: It's coming with a big price tag.
COVID-19-related worries are bringing demands for steps to make sure elections just four months away are safe. But long-promised federal aid to help cash-starved states cope is stalled on Capitol Hill.
Combined, the three shadowy organizations were able to spend more than three times what Rankin was able to raise for his own campaign.
It was day of passion at the S.C. Statehouse complex on Friday as dueling protests took place on the fifth anniversary of the Confederate flag's removal from the grounds.
Berkeley County Deputy William Kimbro and Kemira Boyd, the baby's mother, attended a roundtable at the White House designed to highlight heroic stories of police officers in action amid nationwide protests against police brutality.Â
The federal government incurred the biggest monthly budget deficit in history in June as spending on programs to combat the coronavirus recession exploded while millions of job losses cut into tax revenues.
In a move the officials say is expected as early as Monday, the administration will present the decision as an attempt to curb China's increasing assertiveness in the region with a commitment to recognizing international law. But it will almost certainly have the more immediate effect of further infuriating the Chinese, who are already retaliating against numerous U.S. sanctions and other penalties on other matters.
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