CRONY CAPITALIST OPTS AGAINST GUBERNATORIAL BID One of S.C. governor Nikki Haley‘s closest allies will not run to replace her in 2018, sources familiar with his...
GOVERNOR ATTACKS ANOTHER ADMINISTRATION CRITIC … Back in the summer of 2014, S.C. governor Nikki Haley attempted to suppress criticism of her embattled child welfare agency,...
“REPUBLICAN” ESTABLISHMENT IN TURMOIL … South Carolina lieutenant governor Henry McMaster‘s surprise endorsement of GOP frontrunner Donald Trump in the Palmetto State’s “First in the...
ANOTHER INDICTMENT OF THE PALMETTO STATE’S LAX CONFLICT-OF-INTEREST REPORTING LAWS … A few years ago this website exposed a direct link between powerful S.C. Senate...
MAJOR BODYBLOW FOR “MAYORHOOD” || By TAYLOR BROWN || On Tuesday voters in Columbia, S.C. – all nine percent of them who bothered to show up – sent mayor...
GOP FAULT LINES DEEPEN … South Carolina’s “Republican” House caucus – badly splintered during the debate over the Confederate flag – once again finds itself...
REVENUE SITUATION OFFERS UP-AND-COMING LAWMAKER ANOTHER BITE AT THE POISON APPLE … This website has written a lot of nice things about S.C. Rep. Kirkman...
MANY BUREAUCRATS NEED A REVERSAL OF THEIR CURRENT MINDSET || By TAYLOR BROWN || Last Tuesday evening I attended an event with S.C. Speaker of the House Jay...
MSM PLAYING “CYA” WITH STATE HOUSE SELF-INTEREST || By TAYLOR BROWN || Jamie Self, one of The (Columbia, S.C.) State newspaper’s beat reporters who covers...
FLOODWATERS RAISE RISKS … || By TAYLOR BROWN || This month’s record-breaking flooding in South Carolina has shattered all sorts of rainfall records – but...