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SC Supreme Court weighs constitutionality of GOP gerrymandering in SC’s 1st District

3 days ago | scdailygazette.com | Jessica Holdman

COLUMBIA — A voter advocacy group and lawyers representing South Carolina’s General Assembly each made their case Tuesday to the state Supreme Court over whether the state’s post-census redrawing of congressional voting lines violate the state constitution.
Two GOP candidates officially enter SC governor's race • SC Daily Gazette

4 days ago | scdailygazette.com | Jessica Holdman

The race to be South Carolina’s next governor has officially begun. Two Republicans — Josh Kimbrell, a state senator from the Upstate; and South Carolina’s longtime attorney general, Alan Wilson — formally announced their bids Monday in what promises to be a crowded run for the Governor’s Mansion in 2026. Hours before Wilson was scheduled to make his formal announcement at an event in his home county of Lexington, Kimbrell made his campaign official in an e-mail blast.
SC colleges continue tuition freezes for in-state students

5 days ago | scdailygazette.com | Jessica Holdman

COLUMBIA — South Carolina colleges continue to hold tuition steady for in-state students. The governing boards of both Clemson University and the University of South Carolina voted last week to freeze tuition rates for a sixth and seventh consecutive year, respectively. Other state schools, including the College of Charleston and Coastal Carolina University, are doing the same.
USC signs $1.5M contract with OpenAI to train students, faculty on responsible use

1 week ago | scdailygazette.com | Jessica Holdman

by Jessica Holdman, SC Daily Gazette June 20, 2025 COLUMBIA — South Carolina’s largest university system has signed a $1.5 million agreement with OpenAI to offer free AI tools to all students and faculty beginning this fall. USC’s Columbia campus will become the first in the state to offer access to ChatGPT, following approval of a software licensing agreement by the college’s governing board Friday. The university system’s other campuses throughout the state also will have the option to join.
Tariffs, consumer spending playing outsized role in SC Ports' cargo forecast • SC Daily Gazette

1 week ago | scdailygazette.com | David Wren

MOUNT PLEASANT — It’s a simple economic reality: The number of cargo containers moving through the Port of Charleston closely mirrors growth — or declines — in consumer spending. Not so simple is U.S. trade policy and President Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again tariff pronouncements. That has the S.C. State Ports Authority looking at a wide-ranging forecast for cargo volumes in the coming fiscal year, which starts July 1.
As taxpayer funds deplete, SC Ports puts sole focus on rail project

1 week ago | scdailygazette.com | David Wren

by David Wren, SC Daily Gazette June 19, 2025 MOUNT PLEASANT — The $550 million in taxpayer funding that South Carolina lawmakers set aside for two projects at the Port of Charleston will now be used for just one — a rail-based cargo hub adjacent to the Leatherman Terminal in North Charleston. The Navy Base Intermodal Facility, where cargo containers will be transferred between trucks and trains, is over budget and behind schedule.
'The power is on in SC' legislators proclaim in celebrating massive energy law • SC Daily Gazette

1 week ago | scdailygazette.com | Jessica Holdman

COLUMBIA — State lawmakers declared “the power is on in South Carolina” as Gov. Henry McMaster ceremoniously signed a law aimed at meeting the growing state’s future energy needs. Legislators and utility executives gathered in front of the Governor’s Mansion on Wednesday to celebrate passage of the law granting permission for Dominion Energy and state-owned utility Santee Cooper to partner on a proposed 2,000-megawatt natural gas plant along the Edisto River in Colleton County.
Families call for remembrance, renewed action a decade after Mother Emanuel shooting

1 week ago | scdailygazette.com | Jessica Holdman

It has been a decade since nine parishioners of South Carolina’s oldest Black church were gunned down by a self-avowed white supremacist who came to the church in an attempt to start a race war. Led by pastor and state Sen. Clementa Pinckney, the group had gathered the evening of June 17, 2015, for a Bible study in the basement of Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church in downtown Charleston and invited in the man who would later open fire. “At the end of that hour Rev.
SC more than doubles college scholarships for National Guard members

1 week ago | scdailygazette.com | Jessica Holdman

South Carolina Army and Air National Guard members can now apply for $12,000 in annual state aid to help pay for college. Legislators, in the new budget year beginning July 1, more than doubled the annual allotment for what’s known as the South Carolina National Guard College Assistance Program.
Thousands attend SC 'No Kings' protests • SC Daily Gazette

1 week ago | scdailygazette.com | Jessica Holdman

COLUMBIA — Thousands of South Carolinians who oppose the Trump administration poured onto the Statehouse grounds as part of a national Flag Day protest in all 50 states. The coast-to-coast “No Kings” protests on Saturday, held on a day celebrating the official adoption of the American flag by the Second Continental Congress, coincided with President Donald Trump’s birthday and a major military parade on the streets of Washington, D.C., to honor the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army.