Staff reports | Our sister publication, Statehouse Report, on Friday highlighted what lawmakers want to do in the 2019 legislative session in this news story. But we’d like to give you a chance to sound off about your priorities.
Therefore, we encourage you to take a 10-question survey to share your thoughts on the state’s challenges and priorities. The survey provides an opportunity for you to rank major issues and to provide us with information that we can share with you and legislators.
The deadline to complete the survey is Dec. 19. We’ll provide results in a coming issue. Your answers will be anonymous unless you provide your contact information to us, as outlined in the survey. Thank you.
Also in Good News:
Big month. The S.C. Ports Authority had its strongest November in history with 15 percent growth over the previous November, according to a news release. The port handled 188,585 20-foot equivalent units (TEU) in November. SCPA has moved 985,981 TEUs across the docks of its Wando Welch and North Charleston container terminals since the fiscal year began in July, an increase of 11 percent over the same period last year.
Something fishy. Charleston is ranked second in the nation on the list of fishing cities, according to FishingBooker, the world’s largest website for booking fishing charters. Other larger cities at the top: Boston (1), San Francisco (3), Corpus Christi (4) and Minneapolis/St. Paul (5).
Drilling lawsuit. The South Carolina Environmental Law Project (SCELP) has filed a lawsuit challenging the validity of allowing seismic testing for oil exploration and drilling on behalf of 16 coastal municipalities and the S.C. Small Business Chamber of Commerce. “I am disappointed that National Marine Fisheries Service authorized serious impacts to the critically endangered right whale, along with hundreds of thousands of other species of marine life, in order to allow for unnecessary seismic blasting,” said SCELP executive Director Amy Armstrong. The coast has spoken loudly and repeatedly against seismic airgun surveying and offshore drilling. But the current administration refuses to listen. I hope that the courts agree with us that this activity would be unnecessary and illegal.”
New lawyers. Congratulations to 47 students at the Charleston School of Law who graduated Saturday after a lot of hard work. Since the first class of graduates in 2007, the school has graduated almost 2,000 students with law degrees.
Big gift. Thanks to William Means Real Estate for donating $10,000 during the holidays to the Medical University of South Carolina Children’s Health pediatric palliative care program, which will fund research to help families and children at the end of their lives.
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