NEWS BRIEF: Lawmakers hear two hours of testimony on opioid crisis
By Lindsay Street, Statehouse correspondent | He wasn’t the kind of person you thought would have been involved in drugs, one man testified. Funerals for overdoses less than a week apart, a woman...
View ArticleTALLY SHEET: Senators pre-file almost 300 bills to get things moving
Staff reports | State senators dropped a whopping 298 bills and resolutions into the hopper Wednesday during a one-day pre-filing period that included everything from a teacher’s bill of rights and a...
View ArticleTALLY SHEET: More than 700 bills on legislative calendar already
Staff reports | Talk about a full calendar. With Tuesday’s pre-filing of more than 440 new bills added to the 298 entered into the hopper last week by the Senate, legislators have more than 740...
View ArticleNew book highlights how S.C. can do better
Statehouse Report editor and publisher Andy Brack has a new book of selected columns since 2014 that delve into how South Carolina can do better to help people through politics and the governing...
View ArticleSPECIAL FEATURE: 2020 political overview of South Carolina
By Lou Jacobson, copyrighted material republished with permission | History is inescapable anywhere, but especially so in the South — as Americans have been reminded in recent years, when South...
View ArticleBRACK: Start acting more for the common good
By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | Recent legislative sessions have been wholly unspectacular in terms of lifting up South Carolinians. It’s as if the whole notion of “common good” has flown the...
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