SC Waste Watch: More Shady Payments To “Republican” Consultant
GETTING RICH OFF GOVERNMENT … A so-called “Republican” consultant with close ties to powerful S.C. Senator Hugh Leatherman is raking in hundreds of thousands of...
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Big Ship, Bad News For SC Port
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THIS IS WHAT LOST COMPETITIVENESS LOOKS LIKE … We did a big post earlier today on the latest data from the S.C. State Ports Authority...
SC Ports Boast Record Container Traffic
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CHARLESTON IS STILL GETTING CRUSHED BY SAVANNAH, THOUGH … The embattled S.C. State Ports Authority (SCSPA) says it moved 192,411 twenty foot-equivalent units (TEUs) during the...
#ProbeGate: Follow-Up File
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MSM OUTLETS EXPOSE COZY “QUINNDOM” RELATIONSHIP … Two days ago, we noted both The (Columbia, S.C.) State newspaper and The (Charleston, S.C.) Post and Courier were advancing...
Another Emergency SC Ports Meeting Scheduled
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MORE “PORT POLITICS?” For the second time in as many weeks, the board of the scandal-scarred, results-challenged S.C. State Ports Authority (SCSPA) will gather for...
Port Of Port Royal: Finally Sold?
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PROPERTY TO BE UNLOADED AT LONG LAST … Thirteen years after it was shuttered, a government-owned port property in the South Carolina Lowcountry is finally...
SC Ports Authority Suspends “Quinndom” Contracts
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AGENCY CITES SPECTER OF ONGOING INVESTIGATION … By a 5-3 vote, the politically appointed board of the S.C. State Ports Authority (SCSPA) voted this week...
Showdown At SC Ports
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CHAOS REIGNS … This website has argued for years that politicians and their appointees should have absolutely nothing to do with running a port –...
#ProbeGate: Past, Present And Future
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MAKING SENSE OF THE BIGGEST SCANDAL TO HIT SOUTH CAROLINA SINCE “LOST TRUST” For the better part of the last two-and-a-half years, this website was...
Henry McMaster’s Port Appointees Rebuked
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SENATOR PANEL REFUSES TO ADVANCE TWO KEY GUBERNATORIAL APPOINTEES … In a shocking rebuke of gubernatorial authority, a committee of South Carolina Senators refused to advance...