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That contrast between Santee Cooper’s private concerns and public disclosures is the crux of a legal filing by its top customer, 20 SC electric co-ops → Read More
Santee Cooper is spending more than ever on a pair of new executives from Arizona to turn around the state-owned utility that lost $4 billion of its customers’ money the failed V.C. Summer nuclear project. → Read More
Mark Bonsall, who retired as general manager and CEO of the Salt River Project in May 2018, will be hired to an 18-month contract at a board meeting next Tuesday, Santee Cooper board chairman Dan Ray confirmed. → Read More
“We’ve been losing some very good students to out-of-state laws schools because of the cost,” USC School of Law Dean Robert Wilcox says. → Read More
Here is a rundown of those changes and how they will affect South Carolinians. → Read More
Pay raises for SC teachers. Bonus for South Carolina state employees. A new Veterans Affairs Office and a higher gas tax at the pump. These are among the new laws that will take effect in July 2019. → Read More
Students at the University of South Carolina’s Law School will see their tuition drop $5,100 in 2019-20 because of increased spending on higher education by the S.C. General Assembly. The cut is 17.3%. → Read More
South Carolina taxpayers will have to pay some $50,000 to fix Richland County’s dysfunctional elections system. The state will hire a consultant to study and solve those elections woes after the county failed to count roughly 1,000 votes in the November midterms. → Read More
Mike Pitts, a Laurens Republican who withdrew his application to become director of the S.C. Conservation Bank amid questions of self-dealing, was named a local magistrate judge Tuesday by Laurens County lawmakers. → Read More
At the start of his first full term as governor, Gov. Henry McMaster, a Columbia Republican, proposed raising teacher pay, giving S.C. taxpayers a rebate, hiring more school resource officers and spending more money on higher education. → Read More
Here is how abortion restrictions have evolved in South Carolina as the Palmetto State, like others, have continued to whittle away at the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling affirming a woman’s right to have an abortion. → Read More
Former Santee Cooper chief executive Lonnie Carter is being interviewed by federal law enforcement as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into the failed V.C. Summer nuclear construction project, The State has learned. → Read More
Current and former customers of SCE&G will get up to $146 million in refunds for an unfinished power plant as part of a $2.2 billion legal settlement approved Tuesday by a judge. → Read More
The S.C. Senate Republican Caucus could have to turn over fundraising and spending records as part of a lawsuit brought by state Sen. Dick Harpootlian, a Columbia Democrat the caucus failed to defeat in the November midterms. → Read More
In his first year in the SC Senate, Democrat Dick Harpootlian took on the Carolina Panthers’ tax breaks, got the Richland County Elections Commission fired and sank Mike Pitts’ bid to get a job at the Conservation Bank. → Read More
Rokey Suleman’s two-year tenure as Richland County’s elections and voter registration director is over. The agency’s board fired him Wednesday after the office failed to count more than 1,000 votes in the November 2018 midterms. → Read More
South Carolina lawmakers will wait until next year to decide Santee Cooper’s fate. The state will spend months fielding and evaluating offers from companies to purchase or take over the management of the trouble state-owned utility. → Read More
The Carolina Panthers will get $115 million in state tax discounts from South Carolina when the Charlotte-based NFL team moves its headquarters and practice facilities across the N.C. border and to Rock Hill. → Read More
A year after the Tri-County Electric Cooperative pay scandal, Republican Gov. Henry McMaster signed a new law to require more transparency and oversight for the state’s 20 electric cooperatives. → Read More
Attorneys argued for more than three hours Tuesday over whether a judge should approve the $2.2 billion settlement of a class-action lawsuit over SCE&G’s failed nuclear plant construction project and the nine electric rate hikes that paid for it. → Read More