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[Note to mods: This is my third attempt to post this article (the previous attempts were approximately 2/19/2014, and this past Monday, 2/24/2014). Neither of my posts showed up, and I haven't received any notification about why either one was rejected, so I'm not sure what's going on. It looks like the second time I forgot to include the link to ( Read more... )

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City council members in Columbia, S.C., recently voted unanimously to criminalize homelessness.

Concerned that Columbia has become a “magnet for homeless people,” and that businesses and the area’s safety are suffering as a result, council members agreed on Aug. 14 to give people on the streets the option to either relocate, or get arrested, ( Read more... )

Gov. Nikki Haley’s re-election campaign has no plans to remove a controversial volunteer who South Carolina Democrats and others say has ties to white supremacist groups.

Democrats called on Haley to dismiss Roan Garcia-Quintana of Mauldin from the Republican’s grassroots re-election committee for his ties to the Council of Conservative Citizens, ( Read more... )

A landmark legal case may finally put a stop to almost half a century of bizarre medical procedures in the United States, where children's genitals have been surgically altered to fit a standardized definition of the proper sizes for penises and clitorises ( Read more... )

Desperate Mark Sandford Uses Karl Rove's Playbook.

DIRTY TRICKS: Mysterious Conservative Group Sending Out Push Polls In South Carolina Special ElectionA mysterious conservative group has been placing highly-misleading phone calls to South Carolina voters, trying to dissuade them from voting for the Democrat in an upcoming congressional special ( Read more... )

By: Alex Isenstadt
April 17, 2013 01:47 PM EDT

National Republicans are pulling the plug on Mark Sanford’s suddenly besieged congressional campaign, POLITICO has learned - a potentially fatal blow to the former South Carolina governor’s dramatic comeback bidBlindsided by news that Sanford’s ex-wife has accused him of trespassing and concluding he ( Read more... )

On Tuesday, the South Carolina House rejected extra Obamacare funding for the state’s Medicaid program. One Republican legislator offered a novel reason for the Republican majority’s decision: the President’s race ( Read more... )

EXCLUSIVE: Elizabeth Colbert-Busch is Running for Congress

COLUMBIA, SC -- Patch has confirmed that Elizabeth Colbert-Busch, the sister of comedian Stephen Colbert, will seek the Democratic nomination for the First Congressional District.She will file her candidacy papers on Tuesday according Amanda Loveday, Executive Director of the South ( Read more... )