6-YEAR-OLD PRODIGY LEVELS OPPOSITION
Years of mediocre football seasons at the University of South Carolina can be blamed on a few things, not the least of which has been recruiting.
Sure, the Gamecock coaching staff can always land a few high school standouts that turn into college stars, but consistently putting together [...]
From Joe.My.God, an outsider's view of one of South Carolina's economic development schemes:
TPS COVERS EVENT AS IT HAPPENS FROM COLUMBIA
The Palmetto Scoop is at the Blatt Building on the grounds of the South Carolina Statehouse where a seven-member House Judiciary Subcommittee is holding the first impeachment hearings against Gov. Mark Sanford.
The panel is considering a resolution [...]
South Carolina lawmakers have removed their taxpayer-funded email addresses from the Internet, substituting a much less personal (and presumably less read) electronic feedback form in their place.
Lawmakers will continue to have access to a taxpayer-funded email account, but those email addresses will not be [...]
COMMISSION RELEASES 17-PAGE COMPLAINT AGAINST GOVERNOR
A panel that has been investigating Mark Sanford said Monday that they had found 37 instances in which the disgraced governor broke state law.
The South Carolina Ethics Commission released a 17-page [...]
JUDICIARY SUBCOMMITTEE TO MEET TUESDAY AT 1 P.M. IN COLUMBIA
South Carolina lawmakers are wasting no time taking up an impeachment resolution that seeks to remove Gov. Mark Sanford from office.
A five-member Judiciary subcommittee will meet Tuesday afternoon to discuss the bill, which was [...]
Since our founding editor has for all intents and purposes checked out for the Thanksgiving holidays – a time he typically spends penning his annual “Book(let) of Lamentations” over the status of the University of South Carolina’s football program – we figured we could [...]
For those of you unfamiliar with the story, there’s a mobile home in Red Bank, South Carolina …
Wait … let’s start this over, shall we?
For those of you unfamiliar with the story, there are plenty of mobile homes in Red Bank, South Carolina … but [...]
next week, my beloved alma mater the University of South Carolina faces that accursed farmer college across state, Clemson University. We have stumbled in late season, but skinning a tiger would more than make up for it. Whatever happens, win or lose, one thing remains certain--we have [...] 
You’ll have to forgive Katy Stech at the Charleston Post and Courier … those new Boeing Dreamliner airplanes (which have yet to fly, btw) sure do look phallic.
Plus, it’s hard to find anybody, anywhere in South Carolina right now who’s not either fellating or tossing [...]
As much as we respect his intellect (usually) and support the vast majority of votes he’s cast in the South Carolina Senate, there’s a reason that State Senator Larry Grooms is still a fringe (and some say “Stepford”) candidate in the 2010 GOP gubernatorial race.
And [...]
EDITOR LOOKS EVERYWHERE, CAN’T LOCATE DISTRICT THAT RECEIVED MILLIONS IN STIMULUS CASH
The South Carolina Republican Party asked folks across South Carolina to help them find Congressional District 45. And The Palmetto Scoop answered.
I looked high and low, all over the state, but couldn’t locate it. I even [...]
We already knew that South Carolina was among the fattest states in America, but how much is all of that extra weight costing us?
According to a new report by our friends at the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease, within the next decade 48.1% of South Carolinians [...]
JOBLESS NUMBER TIES STATE’S ALL-TIME RECORD
South Carolina’s state unemployment rate rose sharply in October, tying the all-time high of 12.1 percent set in May and June of this year.
The State Employment Security Commission (ESC) reported Friday that 262,956 [...]
There’s no college football game being played at Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia, S.C. this weekend. And even if there was, it would no doubt result in yet another University of South Carolina loss.
So why not use USC’s bye week to check out one of the Southeast’s [...]
Video: The Voice’s Neil Mellen discusses how school choice helps students in rural schools.
Students attending rural public schools are among the most academically at-risk of all children – particularly in South Carolina.
That’s the conclusion of a new national study released by the Rural School and Community Trust, investigating [...]
