By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | The math is easy. With about about $2 billion in new or surplus tax revenues for the state’s coming fiscal year, there’s more than enough money for the General Assembly to do something it should have long done: Make 4-year-old kindergarten available for all of South Carolina’s poor children.
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Charleston, North Charleston to honor King over next week
COMMENTARY, Brack: Finish the job to make 4-year-old kindergarten statewide
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Charleston Gaillard Center
NEWS BRIEFS: General Assembly to reconvene Tuesday
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MYSTERY PHOTO: Rocky top
S.C. ENCYCLOPEDIA: A history of our General Assembly
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We Can Do Better, South Carolina! (2019) by editor and publisher Andy Brack offers incisive commentaries on the American South, politics, the common good and interesting South Carolina leaders. Available exclusively for Kindle for $7.99. A paperback version will be ready soon. Learn more.
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