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"Now it's our turn"

Immigration, health care repeal on governor elect's to-do list

NOVEMBER 4, 2010 12:02 p.m. Comments (0)

Governing South Carolina next year won’t be for the faint of heart and Tuesday night Nikki Haley looked like she was so ready to jump in she was giddy.

Consider: South Carolina’s unemployment rate is 11 percent, sixth highest in the nation.

State government likely will have $1 billion less to spend. This year’s budget is $21 billion. Continue reading...

So much drama

For these Governor’s School grads, that’s a good thing

NOVEMBER 22, 2010 8:26 a.m. Comments (0)

Broadway has a distinctive Greenville feel this fall.

Three graduates from the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities have roles in plays showing on New York’s Broadway.

Teyonah Parris and Nichole Beharie are appearing in John Guare’s “A Free Man of Color” with Emmy and Golden Globe winner Jeffrey Wright, while Liza Bennett appears in “The Merchant of Venice,” which stars Al Pacino. All three women attended Juilliard before they started acting professionally. Continue reading...

What Hitt means for Haley

New Commerce chief has two decades of S.C. navigating experience

DECEMBER 9, 2010 12:28 p.m. Comments (0)

Robert M. “Bobby” Hitt III’s appointment as Gov.-elect Nikki Haley’s chief at the Department of Commerce bodes well for the state’s economic future, officials with the South Carolina Manufacturers Alliance said this week.

Hitt has been BMW’s go-to guy for nearly 20 years in incentive negotiations with the state and has dealt with South Carolina’s last five commerce secretaries. Observers say he has played a key role in one of the state’s biggest business successes.

He is 60 and a 1973 graduate of the University of South Carolina’s College of Journalism. He and wife Gwen have two sons ages 31 and 19 and live in Simpsonville. Continue reading...

Legislature moves quickly on new governor’s agenda

But expert says first year won’t be true test on its relationship with Haley

JANUARY 21, 2011 11:18 a.m. Comments (0)

New South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley told the state during her inaugural address it was time to get to work.

And the state legislature took her literally.

During the first days of this session of the state’s 119th General Assembly, the House passed a bill requiring more roll call votes and voters to have photo identification and the Senate confirmed some of Haley’s cabinet choices. Continue reading...

Haley: "Join the Movement"

Governor promises to ensure budget cuts don't cause excessive harm

MARCH 10, 2011 1:55 p.m. Comments (0)

Gov. Nikki Haley was blunt during Monday night’s Town Hall Meeting at Greenville Tech; South Carolinians in all walks of life are going to hurt over the budgetary decisions brought on by the recession and past legislative actions.

But she promised to make smart choices and to do all within her power to make sure the cuts do not hurt the least of the state’s citizens excessively.

In a particularly sharp exchange with Henry Harrison, CEO of American Services, over planned increases on unemployment taxes for companies that laid off the most workers during the depths of the recession; Haley said she doesn’t listen to politicians. Continue reading...

Gov. Haley starts on memoir

MARCH 16, 2011 1:06 p.m. Comments (0)

Writing a memoir is almost a rite of passage for presidential hopefuls and Gov. Nikki Haley is busy pecking away at hers in spare moments at the governor’s mansion in Columbia.

But she says it isn’t because she is planning to run for higher office. Continue reading...

Pawprints everywhere

Clemson and the arts come together downtown

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011 1:43 p.m. Comments (0)

Artists with ties to Clemson University are making their marks on Greenville, from the iconic “Mice on Main,” nine rodent-sized statues that comprise one of city’s most popular public art projects, to the Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities.

“Over the last 15 years, Greenville has transformed itself in terms of cultural identity,” said Denise Woodward-Detrich, director of Clemson’s Lee Gallery. “And in terms of the city’s art scene, Clemson alumni have made a big contribution.”

An event Friday night at the Wyche Pavilion beside the Reedy River downtown is designed to make Greenville residents aware of those contributions and to raise awareness for the Center for the Visual Arts at Clemson. Continue reading...