Morgan Hughes
Local News and Features Reporter at The State
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3 days ago |
thestate.com | Morgan Hughes
Renderings for planned apartment towers on Columbia’s Main Street, 22 floors for student apartments and 26 floors for market-rate apartments. Developer Core Spaces, which also did The Hub across the street, is behind the project. Dwell Design Studio via City of Columbia Design/Development Review Commission Plans to build a pair of housing towers on Columbia’s Main Street continue to move ahead. Now, developers are sharing what the project may look like when complete.
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1 week ago |
thestate.com | Morgan Hughes
Columbia will get more time to deal with a demand from the state Attorney General to repeal an ordinance banning conversion therapy for minors. In April, South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson wrote to Columbia leaders ordering that they repeal a city law that prohibits conversion therapy, a controversial practice that is largely opposed by the medical community.
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1 week ago |
thestate.com | Morgan Hughes
Many of the historic mill houses are rental properties like this one on Carolina Street. Tracy Glantz [email protected] In our Reality Check stories, The State journalists dig deeper into questions over facts, consequences and accountability. Read more. Story idea? Email [email protected].
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1 week ago |
thestate.com | Morgan Hughes |Sammy Fretwell
Scout Motors CEO Scott Keogh speaks to reporters at the Scout Motors manufacturing plant in Blythewood, South Carolina on Thursday, April 10, 2025. Joshua Boucher [email protected] Richland County is being ordered to pay up to $3 million for violating state pollution rules at the under-construction Scout Motors site north of Columbia.
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1 month ago |
thestate.com | Morgan Hughes
$2,300 for a poetry festival in Rock Hill. $15,000 to research Black South Carolinians who fought in the Revolutionary War. $5,000 for music classes at a women’s prison. $10,000 toward storytelling seminars for veterans. These are just some of the recent grants dispensed by the South Carolina Humanities Council, which helps fund cultural enrichment efforts all over the state.
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After DHEC closed a crumbling pool in Hopkins, a small, largely Black community about 13 miles outside of Columbia, residents demanded it be saved. Two years later, and it's about to be reopened.
A half-century-old public pool in the Columbia-area community of Hopkins was closed after damage. Residents petitioned to bring the pool back, and after a nearly $1.5 million renovation and two years of work, the pool looks better than ever: https://t.co/7zpQQj1etf https://t.co/vw89aXdkyy
RT @BozardCaleb: South Carolina is demanding that the city of Columbia repeal a 2021 ordinance aimed at protecting LGBTQ+ youth. Here's eve…
