SC Unemployment Rate Down Slightly
South Carolina’s unemployment rate edged down to 8.6 percent in February from 8.7 percent in January, data from the S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce...
Nikki Haley
SC Lawmakers Took Free Gambling Junkets
by FITSNews
Members of South Carolina’s “Republican-controlled” General Assembly – like Gov. Nikki Haley – have gone out of their way to preserve state government’s monopoly on...
SCDEW Facing Budget Deficit
by FITSNews
Despite three rounds of layoffs over the last six months, S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley’s Department of Employment and Workforce (SCDEW) is still hemorrhaging taxpayer cash....
Parsing The SC-1 Poll
by FITSNews
The first congressional district is an interesting animal … In a state full of dirt poor, borderline illiterates it represents the richest and most intellectually...
Jay Stamper Is Disputing Us …
by FITSNews
We published a story earlier this week on Jay Stamper, a Columbia, S.C.-based non-profit director/ businessman who has decided to run against against U.S. Sen....
WTF, Clemson?
by FITSNews
We’ve been arguing for years that Clemson University and other cash-guzzling institutions of “higher learning” in South Carolina should pursue their destinies as private institutions. Why?...
In Other USC-Upstate News …
by FITSNews
Today’s big news at the University of South Carolina Upstate is a cease and desist order issued by S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson against professor...
Maryland Governor Pops Nikki Haley
by FITSNews
S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley got an earful from Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley at a Democratic “issues conference” this weekend – receiving all sorts of criticism...
Robbery … Completed
by FITSNews
It’s official … a corrupt group of “Republican” and Democratic political leaders in Richland County, S.C. stole $1.2 billion from local taxpayers. That’s right, stole...
South Carolina Vs. Maryland
by FITSNews
Earlier this week, the S.C. Democratic Party (SCDP) sent out a press release comparing Maryland and South Carolina using statistics which (as you might expect)...