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May
Island Packet - Real tax reform means everything on the table
Island Packet - BMI Invitational croquet tournament is today
Island Packet - Bill to regulate HOAs gets new life in Senate
The State - The S.C. Political Buzz
The State - Truth squadding the budget debate
Augusta Chronicle - Court or veto might alter stimulus fight
April
Forbes/AP - South Carolina $5.7B budget plan gets key approval
Greenville News - Some senators decry budget’s impact on teachers, public safety
The State - Alternate budget rejected
Greenville News - Senate approve state budget
WBTV - SC budget plan would cut $200M, use to pay debt
The State - Budget battle resumes with stimulus fight ahead
Myrtle Beach Sun News - Brunswick County asks state to broaden property tax relief
Augusta Chronicle - Ryberg, Davis will push budget option
Island Packet - Key progress made in bill to protect rivers
Island Packet - Alternative budget offers better way for South Carolina taxpayers (Tom and Sen. Greg Ryberg)
The State - Sanford sticks by using fees for wildfire budget
Island Packet - County billboard ban nobody else’s business
Myrtle Beach Sun News - SC governor wants to cut money for wildfire fighting
Greenville News - Immigration rules may lack funds
The State - Senate snips local budgets $50 million
The State - It doesn’t have to be this way (Tom and Sen. Greg Ryberg)
Island Packet - Proposed state billboard legislation worries local officials
Island Packet - POA bill needs work, including a reason for it
Myrtle Beach Sun News - SC Supreme Court won’t hear stimulus challenge
The State - S.C. Politics Today
Greenville News - State Senate debates alternative budget
The State - Holman: Protect our water
Greenville News - State facing ‘brutal’ new cut
Anderson Independent Mail - New Senate budget plan funds education, cuts other areas
WRDW - Budget proposal uses Medicaid money for SC schools
Forbes.com - Senators resume writing SC budget, warning of cuts
Island Packet - Local Briefs
Island Packet - Stop the grandstanding, draft responsible budget
Greenville News - Aid talks get renewed push
Island Packet - Don’t miss chance to learn, help country
Island Packet - Davis proposes compromise on $700-million stimulus package
WACH - Stimulus deadline looms
ProPublica - Stimulus Showdown: Governors Fire Blanks on Certification Deadline
WOLO - Can Sanford Reach A Middle Ground On The Stimulus?
Post and Courier - Sanford to accept most of funding
The State - SC Politics Today
Greenville News - Sanford says he may have 2 years to accept stimulus funds
The State - S.C. Politics Today
March
WACH - The latest on the state stimulus controversy
Beaufort Gazette - Davis, Herbkersman critical of DHEC’s findings in Lanese case
Beaufort Gazette - Beaufort native Lawton among 7 war dead to be honored today
Island Packet - Sign of the times: Levy man offers to work using roadside billboard
Beaufort Gazette - Water Authority wants OK to expand into Hampton, Colleton
The State - Quote of the day
The State (by Tom) - Davis: Predatory dumping hazardous to our economy
Beaufort Gazette - Davis schedules series of constituent forums
Free Times - Trash Talk
Augusta Chronicle - Across South Carolina
Beaufort Gazette - Support Moratorium on waste dump sites
Beaufort Gazette - Pending bill aims to ease transitions for military children
Post and Courier - Timeout on dumping permits
Post and Courier (by Tom) - Government’s proper role a central element of port debate
February
The State (by Tom) - Davis: Port debate highlights issue of proper role of government
The State - Waste firms gear up for landfill fight
Beaufort Gazette - Local legislators want higher priority for Jasper port project
The State - Public to comment on proposed megadump ban
Greenville News (by Tom) - Best business practices must govern ports
Greenville News - State spending sources questioned
WIS - New state agency could take a deeper look at state spending
Beaufort Gazette - Impact fee promising, but store vote is not
Beaufort Gazette - Bring sense of urgency to Jasper port proposal
Beaufort Gazette - 200 people pack into local hearing on proposed school impact fees
Beaufort Gazette - Builders oppose school impact fees
Post and Courier - Rose appears to have found key to school-impact fees
Island Packet - State should stay out of association business
Beaufort Gazette - Analysis: Will a political price be paid for Whale Branch controversy?
Beaufort Gazette - Impact fees unfair to new home buyers
Beaufort Gazette - Experts: Jasper port project may not get off ground until 2024
Island Packet - Sanford appoints Tom Davis to SC Military Base Task Force
Beaufort Gazette - Time for new debate on school impact fees
Beaufort Gazette - Bill would eliminate ‘point of sale’ boost in real estate taxes
Augusta Chronicle - Georgia, South Carolina officials debate future of Jasper Port
Beaufort Gazette - County senators plan special legislation to allow impact fees for schools
Savannah Morning News - S.C. pushes for Jasper Port
January
Island Packet - Time to say enough on Bluffton annexations
Augusta Chronicle - Beaufort lawmakers call stimulus irresponsible
Free Times - Leatherman Pushing Tax Exemption Reform
Island Packet - What’s the point of POA legislation?
Island Packet - Stimulus dollars won’t be spent on county road-building projects …
Beaufort Gazette - DHEC reform starts with cabinet status
Island Packet - Senate bill calls for $10 fee on all properties in community associations
Beaufort Gazette - Davis hopes Ports Authority’s new leader recognizes local concerns, free markets
FITSNews - The 2010 GOP Race: Who Will Emerge?
FITSNews - Tom Davis V. South Carolina’s 1895 Constitution
FITSNews - UPDATED - Groseclose Resigns As SC Ports Authority President
Charleston Business Journal - State senator says S.C. Constitution ‘born in sin’
Beaufort Gazette - Medicaid recipients could lose hospice care
FITSNews - Groseclose On The Ropes At Ports Authority
Island Packet - Many area legislators support Sanford takeover of DHEC
Beaufort Gazette - Local legislators, Sanford prioritizing education in 2009
Beaufort Gazette - Port Royal council wants appraisal of shuttered port reviewed
Beaufort Gazette - Sen. Davis pens a lengthy list of goals for his first term in office
FITSNews - SC Public Schools Banking Millions
The State - The ’09 General Assembly agenda: Cut, cut and cut
Charleston Post and Courier - Sweeping or not, look for changes in port operations
Beaufort Gazette - Lawyers angered over lack of payment in non-capital cases
Southern Political Report - Sanford sticks with brinksmanship, even with economy on brink
