All 46 South Carolina senate seats and 124 House spots were up for grabs last night as well as the state’s seven congressional seats.
Govan is being challenged by third party candidate Harold Geddings and Republican Krista Hassell.
Lawmakers included tuition freezes for the state’s public universities as well as funding for a vet school at Clemson and a new med school campus at USC.
While South Carolina now longer has the nation’s only all-male supreme court, it does join 18 other states in having all-white justices with the retirement of Chief Justice Don Beatty.
Bernstein is pleased to see this bill signed but believes South Carolina also needs a hate crimes law.
The House and Senate returns June 5th to work compromises on a number of bills.
With 60 colleges and universities in South Carolina, choosing a school can be difficult.
The Senate has been reluctant to take up an energy bill which has resulted in a reaction from the House.
Chief Burns says that the biggest problem facing fire departments across the state and country is a lack of firefighters.
Attorney General Alan Wilson is asking lawmakers for more funding for these organizations and programs.
