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  • 1 week ago | charlestoncitypaper.com | Skyler Baldwin

    Protesters held creative signs at Saturday's rally. Credit: Skyler Baldwin More than 1,000 people crowded into Hampton Park downtown on Saturday morning to protest President Donald Trump and his administration’s government overreach. They were loud. They brandished creative signs that offered slogans like “Resist Fascism” and “Jesus would be flipping tables at this point.” And more than anything, they were frustrated.

  • 2 weeks ago | charlestoncitypaper.com | Jack O'Toole

    For Democrats in South Carolina and around the country, the numbers are stark — and daunting. In the Palmetto State, Republicans have controlled every statewide elected office for 20 years and now command supermajorities in both chambers of the state legislature. Nationally, they hold the presidency and both houses of Congress.

  • 2 weeks ago | charlestoncitypaper.com | Jack O'Toole

    A photo of the Statehouse in the late 1950s or early 1960s, via U.S. Library of Congress S.C. Sen. Wes Climer, R-York, is suing his fellow lawmakers in the South Carolina General Assembly, saying they are illegally giving themselves what is effectively an $18,000-a-year raise.

  • 2 weeks ago | charlestoncitypaper.com | Andy Brack

    S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson during Day 21 of testimony in the Murdaugh trial. Credit: Pool photo by Jeff Blake. Maybe S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson, the MAGA-acolyte who wants to be governor so bad he can taste it, needs to go back to law school.

  • 2 weeks ago | charlestoncitypaper.com | Skyler Baldwin

    Illustration by Steve Stegelin Credit: Steve StegelinReports taken from May 28 to June 8Excavator escape (not)North Charleston police on June 8 chased a construction excavator after it apparently destroyed the front of a U.S. Highway 78 business. The chase zipped down the highway at about 3 mph, according to a police report, which apparently kept pursuing officers busy for more than an hour until the excavator got stuck in the Charleston County Fairgrounds. The driver was, of course, arrested.

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