HeyJaredCindi Ross Scoppe
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- Sep 26, 2026
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Scoppe: Thank SC legislators forNext Era-of shocking power bills (opens the original)
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When South Carolina’s Legislature pushed through its big energy bill to reduce regulatory "burdens" on electric utilities, my main concern was that the Senate gave in to House demands to strip out modest provisions to protect us from subsidizing data centers. But the whole idea of removing so many speedbumps from monopoly utilities was also worrisome. Up until now, the worries were hypothetical. But we just learned about one of the costs of the 2025 law and of our elected officials’ whole laisse
Scoppe: What’s in an earmark? Silos shield SC lawmakers from more than partisan divides. (opens the original)
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In the nearly silent state Senate chamber, Sen. Tom Davis is walking back a too-absolute statement. Actually, he tells Sen. Russell Ott, he couldn’t say for sure there were no earmarks in the budget bill he was asking his colleagues to pass. He knows, because they have told him, that state agency directors pad their budgets with projects House members asked them to roll into their requests. Those projects don’t count as earmarks — which legislators like to call “community investments” because th
Scoppe: Here’s what the death of compromise looks like in real life (opens the original)
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A few hours before Lindsey Graham died, a friend asked me to explain how it is that, in a state that requires ID to purchase non-alcoholic beer, we allow 12-year-olds to purchase highly intoxicating gummies and seltzers, no questions asked. If he lived in Charleston, he might also have asked how the Mount Pleasant Town Council came so close to giving away $245 million and the only politically possible solution to its ever-worsening congestion on a key artery. Or how the town of James Island came
Scoppe: SC budget negotiations showcase secrecy, charades, possibly plausible deniability (opens the original)
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There’s a lot going on beyond the money as South Carolina grinds toward a second week without a new budget for the fiscal year that started July 1. Budget negotiators are also deciding whether lawmakers will once again pull the rug out from under DUI victims. Or raise the profile of the legislators who profit from the budgets they pass. Or end the Education Department’s end-run around the law that prohibits home-schoolers from receiving school vouchers. Or ban state data center incentives that t
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