Raw Story (Free subscription) | yesterday
Half the states lack requirements to preserve DNA evidence, despite a series of dramatic exonerations based on the critical biological material...
Donklephant (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
Wolf Blizter recently asked Veep contender and South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford about the differences between McCain’s economic platform and Bush’s. Result? He couldn’t come up with anything. At that point the chattering class basically 86′d him from the Veep list. Now Wolf turns his attention to Romney and asks him about McCain’s legislative achievements in [...]
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
By The Times and Democrat, Orangeburg, S.C. Aug. 5--Norfolk Southern has granted a conservation easement on 12,488 acres of Dorchester County land, preserving it permanently.
PinkNews.co.uk (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Amid the row about adverts in London promoting South Carolina as a gay destination, the head of the state's tourism agency said yesterday he wanted the campaign to continue.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
By Scott Harper, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va. Aug. 5--NORFOLK -- Norfolk Southern Corp. has given up its development rights on 12,488 acres of ecologically important forest and wilderness in South Carolina, a donation described as the largest of its kind in that state's history.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
By Joey Holleman, The State, Columbia, S.C. Aug. 5--Norfolk Southern railroad has agreed to protect a huge tract in Dorchester County studded with longleaf pine, populated by 79 groups of endangered red-cockaded woodpeckers and integral to the health of the ACE Basin.
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Josh Goodman of Governing magazine noticed that South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's political foes, ever-grasping for something to hit him with, have taken to calling him something truly Lovecraftian: "Libertarian." Goodman's meditations about the attack are worth reading. There are a couple of reasons why, given this dilemma, Sanford's detractors -- or any critic of a conservative -- might try out...
Ken Hawkins (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
The Post and Courier examines the pay packages for several state employees, including Gov. Mark Sanford, Tommy Bowden, and many others.
Conservative Politics Blog (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
Sex Offenders: National Internet Database Established-Legislation makes clear to sex offenders, To Register, Keep Information Current, or go to jail.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
Putting residents to work in high-paying jobs and rescuing the state from chronic high unemployment will require better coordination between research, industry and government, legislative and business leaders said Tuesday.
Ken Hawkins (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
Using the chance to lampoon Gov. Mark Sanford, members of the state Legislature unveiled a plan aimed at creating more high-paying jobs in South Carolina.
BlackPoliticsontheWeb.com (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
Associated Press - A South Carolina judge who admitted calling crack cocaine addiction “black man’s disease” has been banned from the bench, the state’s Supreme Court said in an order Monday. Former Beaufort County Magistrate George Peter Lamb, who is white, agreed to the punishment and resigned before the order was issued. The court’s order included no [...]
Townhall.com (Free subscription) | 07/27/2008
We're getting close to having a "veep" pick, so it occurs to me that it might be good to officially let the McCain folks know how conservatives will likely receive certain picks. Note: While I don't pretend to speak...
Thinking Right | ajc.com (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Thinking Right’s weekend free-for-all. Pick a topic: Nobody will let me have my first choice as vice president on the John McCain ticket. That’d be former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. Or, probably, my second, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford. His...
asap news (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Late last month UK travel agent Matthew DeGuire was called by a client who saw a travel ad in London’s subway. “South Carolina is so gay” stated the ad, which was displayed next to others that touted Atlanta, Boston, Las Vegas and New Orleans as also being “so gay.” The ad campaign was set to [...]
