The S.C. Department of Social Services failed to meet all seven federal benchmarks measuring the agency’s ability to serve abused and neglected children, according to a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services report.
A longtime Columbia children’s law attorney who was interviewed for the federal study called the results "pretty significant."
"They (DSS) have a real hard time identifying the kids and families who truly need intervention, and the kids and their parents who could be left alone or left alone with some basic services," attorney Jay Elliott told The Nerve when contacted last week.
“At the end of the day, the commission, in a very thorough and reasoned order, determined SCE&G has appropriately established a need for the facility, and thereafter approved SCE&G’s proposed rate increases as reasonable costs to be passed on to the customers for the construction of the facility.”
In 2004, Robert Bolchoz, of ING, gave liberal Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd $500 in Dodd’s re-election bid against a Republican candidate. According to Open Secrets, the general election contribution made by Bolchoz for Dodd was made on August 12th, 2004.
It's a full house here at the 2010 SCGOP Silver Elephant Dinner.
The event opened with the gubernatorial candidates. Andre Bauer opened, followed by Nikki Haley and then Henry McMaster. Gresham Barrett was unable to make it, with his flight grounded by the weather.
Bauer's comments followed off last night's discussion, saying "I'm not saying we can't help people. We all have tough times. Having grown up in a single parent household, I understand."
Haley attacked federal bailouts and praised Senator Jim DeMint, aski
McMaster appealed to his long ties in the SCGOP as its former Chair, recalling in 1994 when the GOP seized control of Congress, along with the State House. He encouraged attendees: "we've got 'em on the run ... we're gonna fight and we're gonna win".
More to come ...
A donkey in northern Durham County, N.C., tested positive for rabies, Durham County Animal Control reported Monday.
Officials don't know how the donkey was exposed to the virus. They think it probably was infected by a rabid wild animal that passed through the donkey’s pasture.
This is not the first case of rabies in Durham County, but this is the first known case of rabies in a donkey in Durham County. The donkey marks the second case of rabies in Durham County in 2010.
News of the tragic Polish airplane crash while transporting many of Poland's high-ranking officials to visit the site of the Katyn Forest Massacre isn't the only recent news about a Soviet-inflicted WWII tragedy.
In the last two election cycles, Democrats gained electoral ground often by presenting candidates who claimed to be fiscally conservative, but moderate on social issues. Such models would be wise, as national polling suggests about two-thirds of voters generally hold fiscally conservative positions, while about forty percent generally identify with conservative positions on social issues. But in looking at the attacks leveled at the national tea party movement, both politically and personally, one has to wonder if the Democrats really welcome those voters who are fiscally conservative or if they're simply paying lip service and using their votes to gain power in Washington.
I was asked by SCGOP Chairwoman Karen Floyd last summer to become the Treasurer of the party, and after some initial guidance by Glen O’Connell – who had served as SCGOP Treasurer for a few years under Katon Dawson – I assumed that role in December of 2009. I resigned three months later.
In short, I would describe my tenure as an absolutely toxic experience that I could simply no longer endure. Not only was I forced into a reactionary position concerning the party’s extravagant spending on non-electoral items, I was also forced to oversee expenditures on items that would only serve political insiders in Columbia – and to do so without objection.
Voters have several choices in the race to replace outgoing Congressman Gresham Barrett in the Third Congressional District. Given the district’s voting trends, the winner of the GOP nomination will be their next Congressman, so it’s a choice they should take seriously. Since losing the seat in 1994, the Democrats have lost bids for the seat handily.
GOP Attorney General candidate Alan Wilson has been working the state's grassroots as aggressively as any candidate for statewide office, and seems to be making considerable progress. Thus far, his efforts seem to be making progress as he's announced the support of roughly two-thirds of the state's 46 Sheriffs.To date, twenty-nine of South Carolina's forty-six sheriffs have endorsed a candidate for Attorney General. All twenty-nine of those sheriffs, listed below, have united behind Wilson.
They are: Charles Goodwin (Abbeville), Michael Hunt (Aiken), John Skipper (Anderson), Ed Darnell (Bamberg), Ed Carroll (Barnwell), Wayne DeWitt (Berkeley), Thomas Summers (Calhoun), Richard Smith (Chester), Sam Parker (Chesterfield), Randy Garrett (Clarendon), L.C. Knight (Dorchester), Herman Young (Fairfield), Kenney Boone (Florence), Tony Davis (Greenwood), T.C. Smalls (Hampton), Greg Jenkins (Jasper), Ricky Chastain (Laurens), James Metts (Lexington), Mark Richardson (Marion), Fred Knight (Marlboro), George Reid (McCormick), Lee Foster (Newberry), James Singleton (Oconee), Larry Williams (Orangeburg), David Stone (Pickens), Jason Booth (Saluda), Chuck Wright (Spartanburg), Anthony Dennis (Union), Bruce Bryant (York), and former sheriffs Dan Wideman (Greenwood), John Cauthen (Lancaster), and George Booth (Saluda).
Spartanburg prosecutor and congressional candidate Trey Gowdy wants rival U.S. Rep. Bob Inglis of Greenville to reimburse taxpayers for the cost of a State Ethics Commission investigation into Gowdy’s campaign finances that found no wrongdoing.
This parody of the Schoolhouse Rock cartoon shows tremendous insight into the current political climate in Washington:
