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Blotter: Open Container-ita 05.22.13 | 4:00 am
FCC may lift TV ban on boobies and F-bombs 05.21.13 | 3:20 pm
The Agenda: Mignon Clyburn breaks FCC glass ceiling, Controlling Edisto floats, Hurricane Awareness Day 05.21.13 | 11:02 am
The Agenda: Statehouse revolving door, Folly awaits beach money, S.C. campuses debate tobacco bans 05.20.13 | 10:46 am
Charleston County considering a switch to paper ballots 05.20.13 | 5:30 am
Clean energy activists to join Saturday for "Hands Across the Sand" 05.17.13 | 5:40 pm
Anatomy of an IRS shakedown 05.17.13 | 3:39 pm
The Agenda: South Carolina's Idol, State unemployment at 5 year low, Dems knock Haley over staffer's flights 05.17.13 | 11:44 am
Late Night law would force bar owners to create powerless police force, endanger lives 05.16.13 | 3:15 pm
The Agenda: Sanford sworn in; Boeing IT jobs; S.C. Idol winner tonight? 05.16.13 | 11:07 am
Crews responding to utility truck after crashing off overpass near Ravenel Bridge 05.15.13 | 4:06 pm
Blotter: Would not, could not, in a jail 05.15.13 | 4:00 am
School of the Arts tweet exposes Charleston County Schools' hypocrisy 05.15.13 | 4:00 am
The problem with for-profit hospitals 05.15.13 | 4:00 am
Burke High student receives Twitter threat 05.14.13 | 4:03 pm

The Film Incentive Bill hurts you and me TV Casualties

The new law is a raw deal for almost everyone involved, except, of course, those privileged few who benefit the most from the largesse and, most likely, those who could…

Mark Sanford rises from the dead Rep. Lazarus

Things were so desperate that Sanford's Republican primary opponents began to float themselves as write-in alternatives. Then Sanford got incredibly lucky…

Rezoning the Sergeant Jasper apartment building will have a big effect on what replaces it Up or Out?

As it stands today, the big, brown Sergeant Jasper apartment building on Lockwood Boulevard (or Broad Street, if you'd like) shoots up 150 feet into the Lowcountry air. It has…

S.C. couple sues MUSC over unnecessary sex reassignment surgery Suit filed against MUSC, Greenville Hospital System, State DSS

A Columbia couple has filed a lawsuit against the Medical University of South Carolina, Greenville Hospital System, and the S.C. Department of Social Services for unnecessarily reassigning their son's gender…

Blotter: Open Container-ita Beware of West Ashley tailgaters

Blotter of the Week: The management at a grocery store caught a man trying to shoplift a gallon of milk and a box of Frosted Flakes. Grrrreat job, buddy…

Stegelin: Who should patrol late-night King St.?

Even though I'm 40, I still need my mother A Love Letter to My Mom

It sort of surprised me. I'm 40, with a job I love, a house, and friends who know me as well as anybody on the planet — often better than…

Mark Sanford rises from the dead Rep. Lazarus

Things were so desperate that Sanford's Republican primary opponents began to float themselves as write-in alternatives. Then Sanford got incredibly lucky…

The Film Incentive Bill hurts you and me TV Casualties

The new law is a raw deal for almost everyone involved, except, of course, those privileged few who benefit the most from the largesse and, most likely, those who could…

Re: City Council considers requiring bar security to patrol sidewalks, parking lots
"I don't get the rest of you. You have no skin in this game, and the purpose of it is to preserve relative peace and tranquility in Charleston." Have you never seen a fight between a bouncer and a drunk patron? These happen all the time, and most of this occurs because the bouncers have no authority. If a cop shows up, even the toughest…
Posted by brewengineer
Re: FCC may lift TV ban on boobies and F-bombs
I am against all censorship by the Gov. It's called parenting. If you don't want your kid to watch something, don't let them watch it.
Posted by brewengineer
Re: FCC may lift TV ban on boobies and F-bombs
I'm not sure I have a problem with the existing regs, except that violence seems to be fairly unregulated. Then again, I'm just a Big Government Commie or something.
Posted by mat catastrophe
Re: Charleston County considering a switch to paper ballots
ohhh that hurt whats a matter need thicker glasses? can't read lowercase? maybe all caps would be better? your definition of True and mine r prob different. seen one liberal democrat seen em all.
Posted by artrogue
Re: The Agenda: Mignon Clyburn breaks FCC glass ceiling, Controlling Edisto floats, Hurricane Awareness Day
OK, then, nofaith - why don't you tell us who is qualified to be the acting Chair of the FCC or what those qualifications even are? Perhaps you could enlighten us on why Tom Wheeler, a venture capitalist, is qualified. Perhaps it is the money he donated to the President's re-election? Or perhaps he has long been a lobbyist for the very industry he may…
Posted by mat catastrophe
Re: Charleston County considering a switch to paper ballots
It isn't my fault you don't know the difference between Big Letter Words and their lower case companions.
Posted by mat catastrophe
Re: The Agenda: Mignon Clyburn breaks FCC glass ceiling, Controlling Edisto floats, Hurricane Awareness Day
As someone who was on the board of a non-profit on the other side of the argument from the tea party I can vouch that what they got was almost identical to the way our group was treated. All 501c3 groups go through the same thing to verify that they aren't being used to funnel money to candidates and issues under the table, illegally.
Posted by John Clary
Re: The Agenda: Mignon Clyburn breaks FCC glass ceiling, Controlling Edisto floats, Hurricane Awareness Day
The head of the PSC and ran a newspaper with a circulation around 10k tops for fourteen years has so much experience that she should be put into a key position with the FCC and on a fast track to run the Commission. Real smart. And I am not so sure how she got rich, her family ran a small newspaper that targeted a small…
Posted by nofaith

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Mark Sanford rises from the dead

Rep. Lazarus
Rezoning the Sergeant Jasper apartment building will have a big effect on what replaces it

Up or Out?
Blotter: Open Container-ita

Beware of West Ashley tailgaters
Stegelin: Who should patrol late-night King St.?
The Film Incentive Bill hurts you and me

TV Casualties

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Mark Sanford rises from the dead

Rep. Lazarus

Rezoning the Sergeant Jasper apartment building will have a big effect on what replaces it

Up or Out?

Blotter: Open Container-ita

Beware of West Ashley tailgaters

Stegelin: Who should patrol late-night King St.?

The Film Incentive Bill hurts you and me

TV Casualties