Gov. Henry McMaster greets Explore Charleston CEO Helen Hill before Tuesday’s meeting of the AccelerateSC task force he assembled to recommend how the Legislature should spend $2.6 billion of the $8.9 billion in federal COVID relief funding on its way to S.C. state and local governments. The city of Columbia launched a fascinating experiment on Wednesday aimed at winning mainstream acceptance for the fringe idea — which became a little less fringy last year when the federal government started sending out checks to everybody, whether we needed them or not, and paying extended unemployment benefits with few questions asked […]
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