Posted in South Carolina on Aug 3rd, 2010
I have many friends and family anxiously awaiting this weekend to go shopping. Why? It’s the annual SC (and NC too) tax free holiday weekend. Anybody and everybody can purchase certain items over the three-day weekend that begins this Friday at 12:01AM and lasts until 11:59PM Sunday. The bonus and reason for celebration is that [...]
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Posted in k12 Education on Apr 24th, 2010
Okay so basically I have come to the conclusion that our state basically doesn’t care how much it costs to educate our students, they only care about tax breaks to themselves. Our congress is in the same boat, only caring about supporting legislation that will keep them re-elected, so very unpopular legislation (that may funnel [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 18th, 2010
Reading up on SC School woes–some articles I read over the weekend, with one jarring quote pulled from each: School funding cuts are bleeding away S.C.’s future BY RON BRINSON Saturday, April 17, 2010 Every dollar cut by the state must be supplanted at the local district level or something has to give, another trick [...]
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