Bowling Tax To Remain in South Carolina House Action
South Carolina House rejected a Ways and Means bill to cut the admissions tax on bowling alleys from 10 to four percent over two years. The vote to permanently continue the measure was 45 to 34 after an earlier 53 to 16 vote not to. Proponents argued the tax revenue is shrinking and bowling's popularity waning, while opponents warned of opening tax cuts for other recreation.
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Columbia
South Carolina
House of Representatives
House
Ways and Means
Sam Fewell
D-York
Charles Powell
D-Abbeville
Alex Sanders
D-Richland
Executive Department of State
Interest Rates Vary Across South Carolina Lenders
In South Carolina consumer loans show wide rate variation with no cap on credit purchases. Officials critique complex laws and discuss the Uniform Consumer Credit Code’s potential to standardize rates and boost lender competition. The code would set max rates by loan amount and promote fairness across banks, finance firms, and stores.
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Columbia
South Carolina
Irvin P. Parker
Parker
John Lindsay
D-Marlboro
Legislative Committee
Lindsay
U3c
Change For Food Stamps Is Curtailed In South Carolina
Columbia AP reports new USDA food stamp revisions effective March 1 bar grocers from giving cash change in stamp transactions or accepting stamps as deposits on returnables. Stores must issue credit slips up to 49 cents for eligible foods in the same store.
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Columbia
U.S. Department of Agriculture
R. Archie Ellis
Public Welfare
Aiken Standard notes and regional AP dispatches round up
Orangeburg counts a suspected break in at a Branchville grocery as Thomason from Martinez Ga is held without bond after a gun battle with deputies. Greenwood High School reopens after a racial clash injures six students and a jaw injury. superintendent J H Spann cites a Northside Junior High student attacked by white dropouts as the incident’s spark.
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Aiken Standard
Rutland Drive
Aiken
S C
S.C
Associated Press
United Press International
Orangeburg
Hal McBeen Thomason
Martinez
Branchville
Ed Weathers
Weathers
Thomason
Greenwood
Greenwood High School
Northside
J.H. Spann
GOP sets hearings for State Republican platform
Three public hearings on the party platform are scheduled in March by the State Republican Party. The Florence-Darlington TEC Center hosts the first at 3 p.m. Friday, the Charleston County Library hosts the second at 10 a.m. Saturday, and a third is set for March 17 in Columbia. Thurmond announces a $100000 federal grant for the South Carolina Mental Health Commission to fund a Crafts-Farrow hospital program in Columbia.
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Columbia
Florence-Darling
Washington
Strom Thurmond
S.C
South Carolina
Mental Health Commission
Crafts-Farrow Hospital
Thurmond
Nationwide weather outlook for early week
Snow mixed with rain is forecast for parts of the Northeast with snow also expected from the Upper Mississippi Valley through the Great Lakes into Illinois and Indiana. Pacific Northwest continues to see rain while the Northern Rockies get snow and eastern states turn colder.
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Mississippi Valley
Great Lakes Area
Illinois
Indiana
Pacific Northwest
Rockies
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