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SCGOP, Tea Party activists to team up

On the day the National Tea Party Convention culminated with a speech from former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in Nashville, Tenn. [...]

TPS cartoonist wins 2 SCPA awards

The South Carolina Press Association has leaked a list of its annual News Contest Awards and The Palmetto Scoop’s cartoonist [...]

5 million reasons to stay off phone while driving

It may not yet be illegal to use your cell phone while driving in South Carolina, but Palmetto State motorists now have five million [...]

Sanford seeks charter school stimulus

Less than a year after throwing an epic temper-tantrum over accepting South Carolina’s discretionary portion of the federal [...]

Rex takes fire for proposed tax increase

South Carolina Superintendent of Education Jim Rex is drawing heavy fire for his plan to fund state education and health care [...]

Patrick Stewart is not a fan of Twitter

You would think that the man who has played Captain Jean-Luc Picard in “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and Professor [...]

Cornyn to stump for GOP in SC

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn of Texas will be in South Carolina later this month to stump for the State Republican Party.

Murder-suicide rocks SC community

It was a sad series of events that led to a murder-suicide in Pickens on Wednesday. And now the Upstate community is [...]

Attack of the ‘Demon Sheep’

A new saying was entered into the lexicon of political phraseology on Thursday: “Demon Sheep.” The phrase comes to us [...]

Jenny Sanford… enough already

Jenny Sanford is everywhere. No matter where you turn, it seems like South Carolina’s first lady is there. The woman whose disgraced [...]

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