Latest Henry McMaster News
South Carolina's top accountant to resign after $3.5B error
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's embattled top accountant will step down next month after a $3.5 billion error in the year-end financial report he oversaw, according to a resignation letter written Thursday that was obtained by The Associated Press. Republican Comptroller...
Editorial Roundup: Tennessee
Post and Courier. March 20, 2023. Editorial: SC Senate should demand tighter limits on legislators’ use of new state plane In terms of the $13.8 billion state budget the South Carolina House passed last week, $10 million for a new state airplane is less than a drop...
Editorial Roundup: South Carolina
Post and Courier. March 13, 2023. Editorial: SC budget plan finally delivers $50K starting pay — but not for teachers The idea of “defunding police” was never taken seriously in South Carolina. Although activists in Charleston and a few other cities called for...
Editorial Roundup: South Carolina
Times and Democrat. March 2, 2023. Editorial: Readily available overdose drug vital in battle South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster five years ago declared drug overdoses and the deaths they cause a statewide health emergency. Today, a continued focus by...
South Carolina offers $1.3B to new Scout electric SUV maker
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's governor said Monday he is going to ask lawmakers to approve nearly $1.3 billion to bring to the state a new electric vehicle plant by a Volkswagen Group-backed group trying to revive a brand that was a 1960s forerunner to today's SUVs. Scout...
Editorial Roundup: Iowa
Quad City Times. March 3, 2023. Editorial: Let’s keep state politics out of school libraries Remember that deafening cry from Iowa students about the books in their classrooms and in their libraries? We don’t either. That’s because...
Scout Motors picks South Carolina for new $2B EV plant
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A Volkswagen Group-backed automotive company announced plans this week to open a $2 billion electric truck and SUV manufacturing plant just outside of Columbia, South Carolina. Scout Motors Inc. and South Carolina officials said Friday that the company would...
S. Carolina House OKs new penalties for convictions on bond
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — People charged with a violent crime and then convicted of a second violent offense while released on bond could face more prison time under additional sentences in a bill passed by the South Carolina House on Wednesday. The proposal has been backed by law...
S. Carolina House OKs referendum on state aid for private ed
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina House moved to allow the repeal of a constitutional prohibition on funding private schools with public dollars as a Republican-backed voucher plan advances in the General Assembly. Conservative states have renewed the push to create...
Fresh off SC Gov. McMaster's win, backers set up nonprofit
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Fresh off his reelection, supporters of South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster are setting up a nonprofit that organizers say will assist the Republican in promoting his legislative priorities over his final term in office. The McMaster Leadership Fund will...
