STATE-RUN EVACUATION TO COMMENCE WEDNESDAY … S.C. governor Nikki Haley is planning to evacuate roughly one-quarter of her state’s population … tomorrow afternoon. Sound like a...
BATTLE SET TO RAGE OVER PLUTONIUM SHIPMENTS … Fourteen years ago the Savannah River Site (SRS) in rural Aiken, Allendale and Barnwell counties in South...
JEANNE SHAHEEN HEADS TO SOUTH CAROLINA TO RAISE MONEY U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-New Hampshire) is headed to South Carolina to raise money from Palmetto...
Last year, FITS investigated reports that Lowcountry emergency vehicle manufacturer American LaFrance was planning on closing its Moncks Corner, S.C. plant. At the time, company...
Given South Carolina’s chronic incompetence and anti-competitiveness on virtually every available measurement, politicos in the Palmetto State are usually grappling to appropriate blame … not...
Forecasters predicted an “extremely active” 2013 hurricane season in the Atlantic – and they were right. But so far this year’s tropical storms haven’t lived...
Only in “Republican-controlled” South Carolina would a group of GOP lawmakers approve the signature education initiative of U.S. President Barack Obama – a massive expansion...
In 1998 South Carolina elected an “Education Governor,” Democrat Jim Hodges. In 2000, it approved an “Education Lottery” (ostensibly “for the children”). And over the...