State budget brief cuts taxes and boosts law enforcement
The 7.3 billion proposal funds a 3 percent pay raise for state workers and avoids health premium hikes. It adds ten new Law Enforcement Division agents, 100 troopers, 205 cars, and nine forensic scientists to cut DNA backlogs while phasing income tax cuts from 7.0 to 6.83 percent over three years. Education dominates spending with K–12 and colleges receiving substantial shares.
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Columbia
House Ways and Means Committee
Department of Public Safety
Shirley Hinson
Rgoose Creek
South Carolina
Hinson
Mark Sanford
House Ways and Means
Dan Cooper
R-Piedmont
Sanford to testify in Rosen BMW Clemson suit deposition set
Gov Mark Sanford will depose in a federal lawsuit filed by developer Cliff Rosen alleging BMW Clemson University and state officials conspired to derail a million dollar automotive research project The case centers on the International Center for Automotive Research site and Rosen's planned development Rosen's lawyers say Sanford acted on his own according to court filings
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Greenville
Mark Sanford
Florida
Cliff Rosen
BMW
Clemson University
Sanford
AMREC
Clemson University Foundation
International Center For Automotive Research
Rosen
Time running out for approval of new bishop
The national Episcopal Church faces a Monday deadline to approve the election of Very Rev. Mark Lawrence as bishop of the Diocese of South Carolina. If blocked, the diocese must hold a new election amid ongoing tensions over ordaining gay clergy and same sex blessings within the denomination.
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Charleston
National Episcopal Church
Mark Lawrence
South Carolina
Kendall Harmon
Diocese of
Episcopal Church
Archbishop of Canterbury
Rowan Williams
Worldwide Anglican Church
U.S
Anglican Communion
Lawrence
Episcopal
J. Haden McCormick
Gene Robinson
New Hampshire
Katharine Jefferts Schori
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