South Carolina Statehouse Blog

Yesterday, Representative Nathan Ballentine agreed to conduct a video interview about the passage of the budget cuts (H. 5300) during this past week’s Emergency Session. In this interview, I asked the following four questions:

How do you, in general, feel about the budget cuts? (0:13)
Is there any one thing that you would have liked to change […]

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This week, South Carolina’s General Assembly is meeting to discuss the budget shortfall and in particular, cuts that can be made to the budget. Representative Michael Pitts agreed to give me an interview about his thoughts on the budget cut bill, H. 5300.
To start off, I asked Representative Pitts what are some of the […]

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The South Carolina General Assembly is convening for an emergency session on Monday, October 20th to address a substantial budget shortfall. The shortfall of more than $200 million is a result of an unforeseen significant drop in tax revenues across the state. To bring light to what is happening and what should be done in […]

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Yesterday, Representative Nathan Ballentine agreed to conduct a short email interview about the economy and the current financial situation our country is experiencing. The following is based off that interview.
To begin, I asked Representative Ballentine what got us into this financial situation. He replied that it all boils down to the fact that there has […]

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With the South Carolina’s State Legislature currently not in session, we here at SC Statehouse Blog are going to try and get some interviews with legislators and other government official about issues concerning the state and possibly the nation as a whole.
How many will we get? What exactly will these interviews be about? Who are […]

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