South Carolina
South Carolina wasn't kind to Mitt Romney in 2008, but the ex-Massachusetts governor and presidential contender is hoping for a better fate in the Southern bellwether in 2012. He made his first trip to the state since forming a presidential exploratory committee, plying a crowd with mustard-based barbecue and boiled peanuts, photo ops with kids and meeting with business owners…
May 22, 2011
South Carolina
South Carolina lawmakers are taking a stand in favor of states' lights. With incandescent bulbs being phased out under federal law in favor of energy-efficient compact fluorescents, legislators want to exempt South Carolina from the measure, saying Washington has no business telling the state how to light its closets and countertops. The proposed state law, called the Incandescent…
March 29, 2011
South Carolina
South Carolina residents - and the simply curious around the world - have watched Gov. Mark Sanford's lovelorn saga unfold, the central character spewing an odd script that would seem more appropriate for a soap opera than state government.
Top South Carolina Republicans and at least a half-dozen newspapers are calling for his resignation. Constituents are scratching their heads…
July 2, 2009
After going AWOL for seven days, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford admitted yesterday that he had secretly flown to Argentina to visit a woman with whom he was having an affair. Wiping away tears, he apologized to his family and gave up a national Republican Party post but was silent on whether he would resign.
"I've been unfaithful to my wife," he said in a news conference in which…
June 25, 2009
Republican Sen. John McCain said he wants "a crash program" in civilian and military schools that emphasizes language and creates a "new specialty in strategic interrogation" so the nation never feels the need for torture.
McCain talked about the proposal in South Carolina yesterday.
December 16, 2007
Campaign 2008
Republican Fred Thompson played down a staff member's departure and a New Hampshire supporter's defection yesterday, saying it's not up to him to know what's going on at every level of his presidential campaign.
"This is a campaign with a lot of different moving parts and a lot of things going on simultaneously," Thompson said in an interview with the Associated Press.
Thompson's…
October 25, 2007
South Carolina
Eleven folders of old papers rescued from his parents' closet sat in Thomas Willcox's sport utility vehicle for months before he realized some were signed by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and might be valuable.
Yesterday, the three letters written by Lee during the Civil War sold at auction for $61,000.
September 30, 2007
Campaign 2008
The presidential contest is assumed to be a cash cow for early voting states. If so, it probably will produce skim milk at best.
The fluid nature of the 2008 campaign, with candidates scattered across a larger field of competition, is making for an unpredictable balance sheet for towns where hotels and pizza shops fill up for a political event while police overtime budgets stretch…
July 9, 2007
Sen. John McCain said yesterday he hopes to patch things up with conservative Christian leader James Dobson, who recently said he wouldn't support the Republican's presidential bid under any circumstances.
In a radio interview with KCBI, a Dallas Christian station, Dobson argued that McCain didn't support traditional marriage values and complained that the campaign finance legislation…
January 17, 2007
2008 Presidential Race
Grits and barbecue. That's what's on the menu for presidential hopefuls looking to make an impression in South Carolina.
The hometown restaurants serving up those dishes are looking for something else: the status that goes with being famous for feeding the famous.
In just a little over a year, South Carolina will host the first Democratic presidential primary in the South, and that…
December 3, 2006
Many species are rare, even threatened, in the swampy marshes along the southeastern coast, and perhaps none is closer to extinction than the "yellow-dog"Democrat of the Old South.
For decades, straight-ticket, conservative white voters who displayed unyielding loyalty to the Democratic Party - they said they'd vote for a yellow dog if the Democrats ran one - transformed the South…
May 10, 2006
