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Editorial Roundup: South Carolina

Mar. 14, 2024 07:25 AM EDT

Index-Journal. March 9, 2024. Editorial: New SC gun law way too restrictive We don’t get it. Gov. Henry McMaster should have sent lawmakers back to work on the open-carry permitless gun law he signed Thursday. Way, way too restrictive....

Tighter proposed South Carolina budget would include raises for teachers and state workers

Mar. 12, 2024 13:43 PM EDT

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Teachers and state employees would get raises under a spending plan being debated by the South Carolina House this week, but many other state agency requests are being rejected as the influx of money from pandemic relief and good economic times slows. South...

Law-abiding adults can now carry guns openly in South Carolina after governor approves new law

Mar. 07, 2024 15:42 PM EST

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Any adult who can legally own a gun can now carry one openly in South Carolina after Gov. Henry McMaster signed a bill into law Thursday, just a day after it received final legislative approval. Gun rights supporters have pushed for the law for nearly a...

Editorial Roundup: South Carolina

Mar. 07, 2024 13:16 PM EST

Post and Courier. March 5, 2024. Editorial: McMaster needs equal role with SC Legislature in picking judges We keep being told that the Legislature isn’t going to make any major changes to the way judges are selected in South Carolina — as if that somehow makes...

Editorial Roundup: South Carolina

Feb. 29, 2024 07:20 AM EST

Post and Courier. February 25, 2024. Editorial: The sabotage effort has already begun; hang tough on fixing SC health services There’s not a single, perfect way to consolidate South Carolina’s many disjointed, uncommunicative health agencies. You could merge every...

At least 6 US states are considering tougher penalties for killing police dogs

Feb. 14, 2024 15:48 PM EST

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Lawmakers in at least six states are considering longer prison sentences or bigger fines for harming or killing police dogs, and the idea has bipartisan support despite questions about how the animals are used and a fraught history. In Kansas on Wednesday, the...

Haley challenges Trump on her home turf in South Carolina as the Republican primary looms

Feb. 11, 2024 12:07 PM EST

CONWAY, S.C. (AP) — With two weeks to go before the South Carolina Republican primary, Nikki Haley is challenging Donald Trump on her home turf while the former president is turning to his familiar playbook of personal attacks as he tries to quash his last major rival for the nomination. ...

Editorial Roundup: South Carolina

Feb. 08, 2024 07:13 AM EST

Post and Courier. February 4, 2024. Editorial: Manipulative GOP ballot questions deserve ‘no’ votes — even for the good idea With the Democratic presidential primary done and South Carolina’s Feb. 24 first-in-the-South Republican nominating contest approaching...

South Carolina wants to restart executions with firing squad, electric chair and lethal injection

Feb. 06, 2024 12:05 PM EST

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Lawyers for four death row inmates who have run out of appeals argued to the South Carolina Supreme Court on Tuesday that the state's old electric chair and new firing squad are cruel and unusual punishments. They also argued that a 2023 law meant to allow...

Editorial Roundup: South Carolina

Feb. 01, 2024 07:19 AM EST

Post and Courier. January 31, 2024. Editorial: Gates of hell? McMaster’s tough-guy attempt is mostly just embarrassing. Gov. Henry McMaster is right: South Carolina doesn’t need any more unions. You know what else we don’t need? We don’t need...