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President Biden lays out plan for ‘American Jobs Plan’

The president says the $2 trillion dollar plan will help rural Americans, those lagging in modernization

Apr 1, 2021 12:37 AM EDT

CNN,

(CNN) — President Joe Biden lays out his next big proposal. The President says the $2 trillion-dollar ‘American Jobs Plan’ in Pittsburgh. Biden says the goal is to improve the nation’s infrastructure and shift to greener energy. The president is also pitching his plan as an investment to benefit communities of color, rural Americans, and other communities lagging in modernization….

SC Senate OKs five-day school for all by April 12

Mar 31, 2021 9:50 PM EDT

Associated Press,

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – The South Carolina Senate has unanimously passed a proposal that would require all schools to provide in-person classes five days a week starting as soon as April 12. The proposal passed Wednesday would also require schools provide five day a week classes next school year too. The resolution would ban districts from making teachers give instruction…

Lawmaker says medical marijuana bill will pass in S. Carolina

Mar 31, 2021 9:36 PM EDT

Associated Press,

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – A bill that would allow medical marijuana use in South Carolina has again made it to the Senate floor. The Republican lawmaker who has pushed for the proposal over the past seven years says he thinks it can finally pass. But even with Sen. Tom Davis’ optimism, there are still stumbling blocks. Law enforcement and some…

Migrant kids crowded into Texas facility as space runs low

Mar 30, 2021 9:50 PM EDT

Associated Press,

DONNA, Texas (AP) – More than 500 migrant children were packed into plastic-walled rooms built for 32 people, sitting inches apart on mats with foil blankets Tuesday at the largest U.S. Customs and Border Protection holding facility for unaccompanied children. Overall, CBP’s main child processing center, a compound of white tents in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, held over 4,100 migrants,…

SC announces plans to expand COVID vaccines Wednesday before doses go to waste

Health officials say they had to get more people vaccinated or waste doses

Mar 26, 2021 11:22 PM EDT

ABC Columbia Staff,

Myrtle Beach, SC (WPDE) The COVID vaccine in South Carolina is opening to nearly everyone. Starting next week South Carolinians 16 and older will be eligible to get the shot. Friday afternoon Governor Henry McMaster announced appointments will be available starting next Wednesday, the 31st. As Nick Papantonis reports for us tonight-based on all the available appointments in the state–…

SC’s unemployed will once again have to prove they are looking for work

Mar 26, 2021 8:57 PM EDT

Associated Press,

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – Unemployed South Carolinians will have to prove they are looking for work if they want to keep receiving jobless benefits starting next month. The South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce had suspended the twice-weekly mandatory work searches due to the coronavirus pandemic. But the agency says the requirement will go back into effect April 18…

Half of U.S. elementary schools open for in-person learning

Mar 25, 2021 9:28 PM EDT

Associated Press,

UNDATED (AP) — Nearly half of U.S. elementary schools were open for full-time classroom learning as of last month. But a Biden administration survey says the share of students with in-person instruction has varied greatly by region and by race — with most nonwhite students taught entirely online. For the White House, the results of the national survey released yesterday…

Biden taps VP Harris to lead response to border challenges

Mar 24, 2021 9:57 PM EDT

Associated Press,

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden has tapped Vice President Kamala Harris to lead the White House effort to tackle the migration challenge at the U.S. southern border. She also is tasked with working with Central American nations to address root causes of the problem. Biden, in delegating the matter to Harris, is seeking to replicate a dynamic that played…

Senate committee settles on official version of SC flag

Mar 24, 2021 9:47 PM EDT

ABC Columbia Staff, Associated Press,

COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO, AP) – A senate subcommittee has passed a bill that would designate an official state flag. South Carolina doesn’t have a standard design and there are many versions of the iconic palmetto tree and crescent flag. The Family and Veterans Services Committee acknowledged the argument is far from over. More designs are likely to come up as…

SC senator proposes bill to make everyone a militia member

The bill aims to make sure no federal law can ever seize guns

Mar 23, 2021 9:25 PM EDT

Associated Press,

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – State Sen. Tom Corbin has introduced a bill that would make everyone over 17 who can legally own a gun a member of a militia. South Carolina’s constitution allows the governor to call up an “unorganized militia.” Supporters of the bill say if everyone is a member of a militia, then they all fall under the…

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President Biden lays out plan for ‘American Jobs Plan’

The president says the $2 trillion dollar plan will help rural Americans, those lagging in modernization

SC Senate OKs five-day school for all by April 12

Lawmaker says medical marijuana bill will pass in S. Carolina

Migrant kids crowded into Texas facility as space runs low

SC announces plans to expand COVID vaccines Wednesday before doses go to waste

Health officials say they had to get more people vaccinated or waste doses

SC’s unemployed will once again have to prove they are looking for work

Half of U.S. elementary schools open for in-person learning

Biden taps VP Harris to lead response to border challenges

Senate committee settles on official version of SC flag

SC senator proposes bill to make everyone a militia member

The bill aims to make sure no federal law can ever seize guns

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