However, required increases - including property tax relief, health care and reserve funds - gobble up most of it. And those surpluses from the current and last fiscal year are what's considered one-time money. Former Gov. Mark Sanford long railed...

However, required increases — including property tax relief, health care and reserve funds — gobble up most of it. And those surpluses from the current and last fiscal year are what's considered one-time money. Former Gov. Mark Sanford long railed...

But all three Republicans — U.S. Reps. Mick Mulvaney of Indian Land, Jeff Duncan of Laurens and Trey Gowdy of Spartanburg — disavowed any interest in challenging Graham. Not so with state Sen. Tom Davis, a Beaufort Republican, real estate lawyer and...

Republican and former state representative, hastened to dampen such hopes with a denial that, if not ironclad, was fairly firm. "I have no plans to run against the senator," he said. Not so with South Carolina state Sen. Tom Davis, a real estate lawyer...

He compared taking your date to a movie on Valentine’s Day to taking her to “a strip club w/ a buffet.” After reading Viers’ tweets, Buzz couldn’t help but notice Viers’ tone mimicked the irreverent style of Will Folks, Gov. Mark Sanford’s former press...

Toews is pronounced “taves”, and it seems to me that it should be a word for something nasty. Get on it, Canada. Mr. Toews is demanding an investigation, news says that Ottawa Citizen reports the Tweet came from the House of Commons. Let's be clear...

It consists of the governor, comptroller general, treasurer, and chairmen of the House and Senate budget-writing committees. “We’ve just come out of an archaic form of the big, green, ugly monster that was the Budget and Control Board,” Haley said. ...

The Department of Archives and History has small amounts of electronic data from Beasley, Hodges and Gov. Carroll Campbell. But those records exist only in paper form because they were printed and filed like regular documents. Gov. Mark Sanford, who...

Farne Robinson and Matthew Dickinson Heaphy of Brooklyn, N.Y. , were married Sept. 17, 2011, at Fort Barry Parade Ground at Golden Gate National Recreation Area in Sausalito, Calif. Mark Sanford, the bridegroom's uncle, officiated at the 4 p.m. ceremony.

Department of Administration, to handle duties such as property and fleet management, and computer technology. "It's time for South Carolina to step up for the rest of the country," Haley said. "This is not about power. It's about accountability and...

There were rumors that Herman Cain had reappeared. Gingrich’s second wife, Marianne, went on TV and revealed that he had asked her for an open marriage so that he could cavort with his committee staffer-girlfriend while impeaching President Clinton. ...

In South Carolina last year, Amazon almost walked away from building a distribution center in Lexington County when the state House of Representatives initially refused to honor part of deal cut by outgoing Gov. Mark Sanford that gave the online...

Factor’s website, malloryfactor.com, includes “Mallory Factor TV,” featuring videos of Factor interviewing politicians — including a Nov. 27, 2011, interview with Loftis. In 2007, Factor wrote an op-ed in The State newspaper, urging then-Gov. Mark...

The commission fined Ard $48,000 and assessed him $12,500 for the cost of its investigation. It was the second-largest fine ever assessed by the Ethics Commission, after the $74,000 fine levied against former Gov. Mark Sanford for his misuse of state...

By SHANNON McCAFFREY, The Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- No more Mr. Nice Guy. Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich lambasted two of his... Having grown up in South Carolina, I take it for granted that politics elsewhere are not...

Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford told his staff he was hiking the Appalachian trail, then later confessed he had rendezvoused with his Argentine mistress, whom he called "my soul mate." He stayed in office but his wife, Jenny, filed for divorce.

Mark Sanford "hit the trail" and Nikki Haley became our tea party governor. You may not be aware of the campaign promises Haley made and how these promises have failed under her rule. For instance, Haley declared that our state would be given complete...

Carolina Governor Mark Sanford's June 24 statement that his yearlong affair with an Argentine woman began "innocently" has drawn both sympathy and scorn. Can you really have good intentions and still wind up in bed with someone other than your spouse? ...

Clinton got frisky with an intern. John Edwards had a wife with cancer, a mistress and a sex tape. (So that’s why he needed those fancy haircuts.) Herman Cain had not so much a “sex” scandal, but a “harassment and assault” scandal; that got put into the...