Joel Sawyer
Joel Sawyer
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It's something they are going to address internally to make sure it doesn't happen again, and we're going to continue working hard to try to bring this project to South Carolina.
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It's no surprise that trial lawyers in the Senate who are lining their own pockets on the backs of South Carolina's businesses would want to delay much-needed reform of a broken workers' compensation system.
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The South Carolina Code of Laws says if a South Carolina serviceman or woman dies in the line of duty, the flags will be flown at half-staff on the day of the funeral.
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The governor looks forward to outlining his vision for South Carolina for this year tomorrow night. We'll leave the politics to the politicians.
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We believe it's an incredibly important step toward creating an education system in South Carolina that recognizes the diversity in children and the diversity in learning styles that exist.
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We would like to see a more aggressive bill put in place to attract a major feature to South Carolina.
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Whether you have one bill that grows government at 10.9 percent or try to spread the spending over three different bills, this is still not consistent with the House's previous statement on the need for a true spending cap. We don't understand why some in the House now appear to not be willing to live within the cap they've already passed on themselves.
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We're going to have to go to some kind of Plan B. The funding we have for this is totally dependent on the federal government.
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We're absolutely in favor of tolls on I-73 if that's what it takes to get the road built as quickly as possible. I-73 is incredibly important to the future of the Grand Strand.
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We're always open at looking at ways to make health insurance more affordable for small business owners. But the governor has long been on the record as being against any kind of tax increase unless there is a corresponding tax decrease.
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Our state is spending more than it ever has before on higher education. At the same time, tuition is continuing to increase by double digits year after year.
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Overall, I would say we're pleased with the funding requests for Savannah River.
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It doesn't appear that the bill does enough to address cost drivers associated with recent increases in workers' compensation.
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Our local agencies have done a good job of stretching dollars. Obviously, this is going to help.