Morgan Hughes
Local News and Features Reporter at The State
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2 days ago |
myrtlebeachonline.com | Morgan Hughes
Richland County now has a hate crimes law on the books. It becomes the first county in South Carolina to enact such a law, joining 19 cities and towns in the state with similar policies, including Columbia, Cayce and Arcadia Lakes. Richland County passed the hate intimidation law unanimously Tuesday, after hearing mixed opinions from residents. Richland County Council women Tyra Little and Allison Terracio sponsored the ordinance.
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2 days ago |
thestate.com | Morgan Hughes
The Columbia skyline and the Gervais Street bridge as seen from West Columbia. Tracy Glantz [email protected] Richland County now has a hate crimes law on the books. It becomes the first county in South Carolina to enact such a law, joining 19 cities and towns in the state with similar policies, including Columbia, Cayce and Arcadia Lakes. Richland County passed the hate intimidation law unanimously Tuesday, after hearing mixed opinions from residents.
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1 week ago |
thestate.com | Morgan Hughes
A view of the breach in the Columbia Canal on Monday, October. 5, 2015. Tracy Glantz [email protected] Columbia’s drinking water system has been in limbo for a decade. In 2015, a “1,000-year-flood” ripped a 60-foot hole in the canal wall and damaged the headgates, which control the water flow. Today, a rock dam holds the canal together and all but one headgate remains plated shut.
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1 week ago |
thestate.com | Morgan Hughes
Columbia city council again delayed a vote on the future of an ordinance banning professionals from practicing conversion therapy, which attempts to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender-identity. Conservative state leaders want Columbia to repeal the ban on conversion therapy within the city limits passed in 2021, and are threatening legal action and millions of state dollars if they don’t get their way.
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2 weeks ago |
thestate.com | Morgan Hughes
The future of Columbia’s ban on conversion therapy, which the state Attorney General Alan Wilson has threatened legal action over, remains up in the air. The council voted to defer its decision to a later meeting after nearly two dozen people urged the city council Tuesday to keep the ordinance in place. LGBTQ-rights groups said they see the council’s choice to postpone the vote as a victory.
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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
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