The Horry County School Board seemed at its Monday meeting to be working under the theme "How to do more with less?"The board braced itself for another budget cut from the state that could be making its way to schools later...
Riven by division on the Town Council and increasing pressure from creditors, the town of Atlantic Beach enters a phase of governmental limbo this week with no immediate end in sight.Despite the council's tacit rejection of its...
Study: New port would bring in $2.3B by 2020 The planned joint South Carolina-Georgia port terminal in Jasper County could generate $2.3 billion by 2020. That's according to a preliminary analysis by civil engineering firm...
Gov. Mark Sanford is asking state agency heads to meet in Columbia on Tuesday to identify programs that could be cut from the state budget.The State newspaper of Columbia reported that Sanford wrote directors Thursday, asking...
COLUMBIA Senate leader wants more votes on record South Carolina's Senate majority leader says he will push for more recorded votes to make lawmakers more accountable to taxpayers. Republican Harvey Peeler of Gaffney said...
With tobacco tucked in the barn and other crops of cotton and peanuts just coming to maturity, Steve Squires and Martin Owens are keeping a careful eye on the weather and hoping for a successful end to a rollercoaster...
Mark C. Joye of North Charleston-based Joye Law Firm was recently elected vice president of the South Carolina Association for Justice. He will serve in that office for one year, after which he will become president-elect...
[Hat tip: Kendall Harmon] This blog has tried to stay away from posting on the politically-based economic issues in our country [we do a ton of posts on economic theory, which is a different matter]. I'm posting a link...
There's a lot of erroneous information that is integral to American mythology, buried so deeply that extracting it will feel to a lot of folks like an appendectomy performed with a fork and butter knife. Fortunately for...
Here is, I think, a pretty safe prediction: The Republican presidential nominee in the summer of 2012 will have come out against the Paulson-Bernanke bailout plan in the fall of 2008. Conservative rage against the $700...