Teacher vacancies in South Carolina have nearly tripled since 2019, reaching a record 1,613 to begin the 2023-2024 school year, and the negative impacts on students, families and educators are growing. One such impact has been the loss of daily access to quality instruction for many students. Districts facing educator shortages have increasingly been forced […]
Tega Cay and Fort Mill have repeated as South Carolina’s top two places to live in an annual ranking. Niche.com recently released its full set of “2024 Best Places to Live” rankings, putting Tega Cay at No. 1 in the Palmetto State. Tega Cay, a community southwest of Charlotte in the Lake Wylie area, receives […]
Volvo was one of South Carolina’s biggest industrial prizes in 2015, drawing praise for the jobs it would bring and the care it would take to protect the environment. But the company recently ran into trouble with state regulators, who identified multiple environmental violations at the auto factory in Berkeley County. On a visit to […]
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley did not endorse former President Donald Trump’s campaign to return to the White House as she dropped out of the 2024 race. Haley, who on Sunday backed off from a previous pledge to support the eventual nominee, said Trump needs to earn the support of the Republicans and independents […]
After winning only one state in Republican presidential primaries on Super Tuesday, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley plans to deliver remarks Wednesday morning about her campaign for the White House in a speech in Charleston. She only won Vermont’s GOP primary on Super Tuesday making it the second contest where she was victorious in […]
The South Carolina Republican presidential primary is Saturday with Palmetto state native and former governor Nikki Haley, former President Donald Trump and equity group CEO Ryan Binkley all on the ballot. The state operates an open primary system where voters can cast ballots for any of the three potential candidates regardless of party affiliation if […]
President Joe Biden easily won South Carolina’s Democratic Primary, which kicked off Democrats’ nominating process in the 2024 election cycle. Biden was challenged by U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minnesota, and self-help author Marianne Williamson, but neither gained much, if any, traction in the state to make the primary truly competitive. Phillips even publicly said he […]
State lawmakers return to Columbia on Tuesday to kickoff the second year of the two-year session. Here are some of the issues they may take up over the next several months: Budget with less new money Lawmakers writing a state spending plan for the 2024-25 fiscal year will have less new money to work with. […]
For a long time, Prince of Peace Catholic Church in Taylors had searched for a larger Nativity Scene for Christmas, when the church’s patronal feast takes place. The new Nativity would replace the smaller one they previously owned. Pastor Christopher Smith credits parish secretary Maria Rauch as “the mastermind” behind the church’s seasonal decorations. Rauch, […]