By Andy Brack, editor and publisher  |   There’s a lot that goes on in a legislative session:  Thousands of bills are filed.  Hundreds of news stories are written about those bills.  Scores of committee meetings underscore why making laws is as unsightly as making sausage.

Through it all after several months of work, much hot air was expended.  Tempers flared.  Filibusterers filibustered.  Lobbyists lobbied.  Visitors gawked.   And a few laws got passed.

In 2019, legislators agreed enough to pass 113 measures – everything from the $9 billion budget to rejiggering voting precincts in Anderson, Greenwood, Dorchester, Pickens, Abbeville and Dillon counties.  In fact, they seemed to like fiddling so much with Greenwood County’s precinct maps that they did it twice, first in March and later as the session was coming to a close.