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He once pushed for the state-owned utility to be sold after its financially disastrous involvement in the failed expansion of the V.C. Summer plant.
South Carolina's five female senators have asked GOP leaders to admonish a Spartanburg County colleague for disparaging one of them as an extreme pro-choice Republican who won't get any financial help from the caucus in her re-election bid.
In their latest TV ads, Gov. Henry McMaster pledges he won't let Washington antics "happen here," while his Democratic challenger, Joe Cunningham, promises to be a different kind of politician.
Before Dobbs, S.C. Sen. Tom Davis told me Wednesday, opposing abortion had always been “an academic issue” for Republican legislators: They could pass as tough a law as they wanted, confident …
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster and his wife's reported earnings have steadily declined by more than $200,000 since they moved into the Governor's Mansion, according to a review of their tax filings.
The Judiciary Committee chairman of the South Carolina House says he's getting help for alcohol abuse and hopes to return to the Legislature in January.
The salaries of South Carolina's constitutional officers, set by state law, haven't budged since July 1994, when they last received a 2 percent pay bump.
Tuesday was my first day back from vacation, but I didn’t bring beach pictures for show and tell. Instead, I regaled my colleagues in our daily editorial meeting with an email that arrived Mon…
A Republican push to outlaw nearly all abortions in South Carolina died in the Senate, which could not agree on a ban before six weeks into a pregnancy
The second day of Senate floor debate is expected to end either with a vote to ban abortions with few exceptions or to let the "fetal heartbeat" law remain the state's policy.
A bill banning nearly all abortions in South Carolina has advanced in the Senate with no exceptions for victims of rape or incest.
Joe Cunningham is trying to topple Gov. Henry McMaster by painting him as an out-of-touch "geriatric" politician, while the Republican incumbent counters that his challenger is an unserious "frat boy"
By a 67-35 vote, the South Carolina House sent the Senate a bill banning abortion with exceptions only when the pregnancy risks the mother's health or up to 12 weeks when it is the result of rape or incest.
A bill banning nearly all abortions in South Carolina passed after some last-minute maneuvering by Republicans to add exceptions for victims of rape and incest
The public health insurance plan for more than 500,000 South Carolinians specifically bans covering birth control for employees' children. Some legislators are looking to change that.
I was raped when I was 16. That moment changed me forever.
Nancy Vinson nearly threw away her right to vote like so much junk mail. Or at least that's what she thought. The retired environmental lobbyist said she originally assumed the “little thin paper postcard with the tiniest of print” was “a really cheap piece of poorly printed junk mail.”
Gov. Henry McMaster celebrated a new law providing state employees up to six weeks of paid parental leave, as its sponsors promised to push for more next year
In 14 of South Carolina's 46 counties, there are zero OB-GYN doctors, not even with a part-time practice. Five other counties each have just one OB-GYN doctor
As public health workers at South Carolina’s Department of Health and Environmental Control scrambled to respond to COVID-19, state legislators pestered them with “numerous” requests for coronavirus testing and vaccination clinics, including for members of their own families, according to a new review of the agency’s response to the pandemic.
Graham is currently scheduled to appear on Tuesday. But he still has another motion to stay May's ruling pending before the 11th Circuit.
Circuit Judge Alison Renee Lee ordered the state Election Commission not to put Gary Votour, Harold Geddings and Lucus Faulk — candidates for governor, lieutenant governor and the 1st Congressional District — on ballots.
The state Supreme Court has temporarily blocked South Carolina's "fetal heartbeat" abortion ban as justices consider whether the law violates the state Constitution's right to privacy.
A bill banning abortions in South Carolina except to save the mother's life advanced to the House floor over Democrats' objections it would actually put lives at risk.
The Philadelphia-based Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, or FIRE, is spending more than $100,000 on 20 billboards in Charleston, Greenville, Columbia and Myrtle Beach to combat a proposal that could criminalize conversations that help women get an abortion.
South Carolina’s chief justice says some lawyer-legislators have abused the privilege he has granted them to skip court seven months a year, and he’s cracking down.
U.S. Rep. William Timmons will run unopposed in November under a split ruling by South Carolina election commissioners, who decided Democrats can't replace their candidate who withdrew this week.
A recent Post and Courier editorial on legislative immunity remarked on my willingness to waive the judicially granted excuse from court to obtain a speedy trial for a client.
Decrying an "overreach" by the federal government, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster is suing some federal agencies over what he contends is a plan to force the state to double its civil penalties for workplace violations. The state is also seeking an injunction against the federal government taking away its state-run plan of enforcement that has been in place for decades.
While Labor Party leaders dispute whether they decided against running anyone, the Democratic Party's lawsuit argues the candidates should be tossed for a much simpler reason: Timing.
Graham's comments came as he stood beside Gov. Henry McMaster to blast Democrats for the $740 billion spending package narrowly pushed through the U.S. Senate two days earlier on a party-line vote
President Joe Biden is nominating South Carolina Judge DeAndrea Benjamin, the wife of Columbia's former mayor, to an opening on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, according to the White House
The Democratic National Committee's rule-making arm had planned to recommend on Friday which states should be the first four to vote, while considering adding a fifth before Super Tuesday, when a large number of states hold primary elections. But it delayed the decision until after November's election, lest it become a distraction affecting Democrats in key congressional races. South Carolina, with its large bloc of Black Democrats, may move from fourth to third, freeing up a large Midwestern state to go next.
South Carolina election officials are putting Labor Party candidates for governor and the 1st Congressional District on the ballot, saying state law gives them no ability to take sides between quarrelling party leaders.
A South Carolina judge is expected to weigh in soon on whether death row inmates can be executed by firing squad or the electric chair, after attorneys delivered final arguments in a case challenging the state's only available options as unconstitutional.
On the second day of testimony, medical professionals gave conflicting answers about when inmates lose consciousness and cease to feel pain.
According to the state Labor Party's co-chairwoman, Gary Votour and Lucus Faulk are its convention-approved candidates for governor and the 1st District, respectively. But according to the co-chairman, the convention was a sham and the party has no candidates.
It’s hard to imagine how anyone got the idea that North Charleston’s own Tim Scott might run for president.
State prison officials revealed details on how death sentences are carried out as they took the stand in a trial challenging the constitutionality of executing inmates by firing square or electrocution, the only options available under state law
Democrat Joe Cunningham chose Columbia attorney and veteran Tally Parham Casey to help him oust GOP Gov. Henry McMaster
I wasn’t going to write about South Carolina’s silliest tax gimmick this year, because … well, been there, done that. But the news releases started piling up in my inbox from retailers who wan…
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told South Carolina Republicans to prepare for November wins at the party's annual fundraiser in Columbia.
Gary Simrill began his role July 1, the same day Winthrop President Edward Serna took over as the 12th president of the public university in Rock Hill.
The negotiations come as the committee was interviewing Trump's onetime chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, on Thursday. The former South Carolina congressman held that job until 2020 and later was special envoy for Northern Ireland, a post he resigned immediately after the riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
Turning around South Carolina's chronically dangerous juvenile prisons is now the job of a prosecutor who sent some of those children to jail.
Democrat Joe Cunningham has yet to announce his own running mate.
Gov. Henry McMaster announced a $25 million boost to an ongoing workforce scholarship program for South Carolina's 16 technical colleges.
Circuit Court Judge Casey Manning declined to suspend South Carolina's controversial Fetal Heartbeat Act. The case may head to the South Carolina Supreme Court.
Protecting our natural environment must always be one of our top priorities. And today, that means cleaning up the aircraft carrier Yorktown.
I got the first inkling of trouble days before the primaries, when Peter Sibley asked me to look into the problem that prevented him voting absentee. Worse problems cropped up before the runoffs.
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