Sen. Grooms gets Champion award
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State Sen. Larry Grooms, R-Bonneau, received the Palmetto Family Council’s Legislative Champion award.
The nonprofit education foundation recognized Grooms for playing a role in “every pro-family piece of legislation” the Legislature made law during its last session, said Oran P. Smith, council president.
Grooms said, “The Family Council represents the ideals I’ve supported from my first day in office — faith, family, traditional values.” Read more
Effort to force roll calls begins
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Few of lawmakers’ votes are recorded
A lack of recorded votes by the House and Senate is the most critical issue facing democracy in the state, Ashley Landess, president of the South Carolina Policy Council, said Wednesday.
She was joined by Gov. Mark Sanford and Reps. Nikki Haley, R-Lexington, and Nathan Ballentine, R-Irmo, after the group spent the day traveling the state to call attention to the matter.
“We need the public to understand that this is a fight,” Landess said. Her conservative think tank put out a study in August that found the House took roll-call votes on 8 percent of the bills that became law this year, while the Senate did so only 1 percent of the time. Read more
Assessment Notice Schedule
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Bryant Continues Fight for Greater Transparency
Wants Property Valuation Notices to be Mailed Prior to End of Fiscal Year
Senator Kevin Bryant (R-Anderson) continues to fight for greater transparency in state and local government. Senator Bryant wants county tax officials to send out new property value notices at least 60 days before the end of a county’s fiscal year, so taxpayers can have a better understanding of how much money is being collected due to an increase in property values.
“I am working on legislation that would require counties to send reassessment notices to taxpaying homeowners 60 days prior to the end of the county’s fiscal year,” says Senator Bryant. “Many taxpayers in Anderson County are still in the dark about the reassessed value of their property and the potential impact on their personal finances.” Read more
Greenville News | Report: State’s roads headed downhill
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COLUMBIA — South Carolina faces a $22 billion shortfall in funds for needed work on roads and bridges over the next decade, according to a national study released Wednesday by a group pushing for more road construction.
At least 26 percent of the state’s major roads are in poor or mediocre condition, and 25 percent of the state’s bridges show significant deterioration or don’t meet current design standards, according to the study, done by TRIP, a national nonprofit research group, for the South Carolina Alliance to Fix Our Roads.
