TweetA quick run through the headlines: USC connection brings 707 jobs to Midlands (bradwarthen.com) — Interestingly, others are pushing the idea that this deal happened because of a cozy relationship the Nikki Haley had with Nephron. Hey, that would mean this is one bit of good ecodevo news that our gov could claim credit for… […]
Tweet First, for the overview, I’ll give you the press release from today’s event (provided by the SC Commerce Department): Nephron Pharmaceuticals Corporation Announces New Operations in Lexington County $313 million investment expected to create 707 new jobs COLUMBIA, S.C. – October 28, 2011 – Nephron Pharmaceuticals Corporation today announced that the company will locate […]
TweetThis morning, I saw some speculation out there that Rick Perry — who met with Nikki Haley today — was trying to get the endorsement of the fellow governor with who he shares one key friend: Eleanor Kitzman. Well, I haven’t seen anything out of that yet, but he did come up with an announcement […]
TweetRick Noble shared this with me today at Rotary, from The Economist: IT’S a great day in South Carolina, and if you don’t believe it, ask Governor Nikki Haley. On September 27th the governor ordered the 16 directors of cabinet agencies under her direct control to change the way their employees answer the telephone. So […]
TweetLast night, Phil Bailey called me with five minutes to go and asked me to be a last-minute replacement for Joel Lourie on Pub Politics, so of course I said yes, and they held the show for a few minutes to give me time to get there. That’s seven times now, people. No one else […]
TweetPerhaps you should go back and read my original post. Not much to see, really — a lightweight stream-of-consciousness thing in which I started out joking about something I’d read on Twitter, teasing everyone involved… and then decided, near the end, that that was too much levity and that I should play the grownup and […]
Tweet At an event Wednesday night, the first two people I ran into were the senators pictured above, Nikki Setzler and John Courson. Courson was bragging on the grade Nikki Haley had given him earlier in the week — a “C.” And of course, as he kept telling everyone, it was “a strong C.” For […]
TweetI wasn’t going to pay attention to Nikki Haley’s presumptuous grading of legislators, but I did. And I was going to say something about it, but what is there to say, really? I can’t blame her for giving some of the state’s very best, most dedicated and thoughtful lawmakers Ds and Fs, because she herself […]
TweetI’m beginning to suspect that when people go to compile such things as this piece on Salon, “Why are the governors of America saying such dumb things?,” they look at South Carolina first. The very first example given was: According to the Associated Press, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley announced at a cabinet meeting on […]
TweetCindi Scoppe just got a little help. For years, Cindi has been writing at least annually about the outrageous pensions that SC lawmakers give themselves. She just got some reinforcement in that crusade, with a front-page story in USA Today, which begins: At age 55, South Carolina state Sen. David Thomas began collecting a pension […]
TweetKP brings our attention to this breaking news: COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said Monday she can’t back up claims that half of the people wanting work at the Energy Department’s Savannah River Site failed drug tests and half of the remainder couldn’t pass reading and writing tests. Haley said in […]
TweetSusanG brought this to my attention Friday, but what with the “little girl” flap, and the non-apology, I’d sort of had my fill of Nikki Haley gaffes that day before I got to it. In case you still haven’t seen was Susan was talking about, here’s an excerpt: Nikki Haley’s Jobless Drug Test Claim Exaggerated […]
Tweet Dick Harpootlian’s Democratic Party seems determined to pull us completely beyond the era of text-based press releases. At least it’s entertaining — sometimes. Above you have the state party’s most recent release. There was some text with it. Here you go: Columbia, SC – This weekend, the Charleston Post & Courier exposed shocking information […]
TweetOccasionally, I get asked here whether I ever change my mind about anything. I don’t know why I get asked that; probably because of the very definite manner in which I present opinions that I have examined and tested over and over again. I have a certain tone, people tell me. Well, yes — sometimes […]
TweetFirst, for those of you who are new to this blog (and you’re out there, I know, going by my growing readership numbers), I have no truck with either of the two major political parties. And even less with the minor parties that you’ve heard of (the Libertarian Party, for instance, makes the Dems and […]
TweetHere’s what we have at midweek: Rebels Set Gadhafi Bounty (WSJ) — Yes, it’s come to this, Moammar. Related stories at The Guardian, the BBC, and The Washington Post. No evacuations for Irene in S.C. (thestate.com) — Apparently, the danger (for us) is over. At least, according to Nikki Haley. She has examined the evidence […]
Tweet As president-elect of the Columbia Rotary Club, car dealer J.T. Gandolfo is responsible for lining up speakers for the club this year. And he is going all-out to make them the kinds of speakers who get everybody talking. So far we’ve had Nikki Haley, and the guy from FN, and Trey Gowdy. Next week, […]
Tweet CHARLESTON — As Gov. Rick Perry of Texas was still talking to the 2011 RedState Gathering at the Francis Marion Hotel today, I sent out this Tweet from the sweaty, charged-up ballroom: @BradWarthen Brad Warthen I’ll go out on a limb here, even as he announces, and say Rick Perry WILL be the Republican […]
Tweet On the whole, it was good. He was well-received. Probably more so than Nikki Haley was a few weeks back, and she did pretty well also. He certainly struck me — and to a much greater extent seemed to strike others — as a far, far more reasonable guy than the one who ran […]
Tweet I hadn’t looked at my blog stats for awhile, and then I saw to my surprise that I had 230,000 page views last month. And the last six months have averaged more than 200,000. (It’s been more than half a million “hits” a month, but I don’t put stock in those.) That’s my second-highest […]