Our weekly Top Five feature offers big stories or views from the past week with policy and legislative implications.
State to take over two Timmonsville schools, S.C. Radio Network, March 10, 2016
Superintendent Molly Spearman declared a state of emergency for one elementary and one middle school in Florence County, and the state will step in to begin operating the schools. The district’s superintendent has been ousted by the board.
Is pollution in Charleston adversely affecting some neighborhoods? Charleston City Paper, March 9, 2016
A look at industrial pollution and historical land uses that could be affecting poor and minority groups in Charleston. The study has broader impacts too — whether the same thing is going on throughout the rest of the state, as it has in other Southern states in the past.
Five urgent public management issues for 2016, Governing magazine, March 2016
Analysts Katherine Barrett and Richard Greene outline five top challenges for governments, which include dealing with data sharing and privacy; boosting trust in police departments; addressing deferred infrastructure maintenance needs for roads, bridges and buildings; cybersecurity; and reforms for state procurement processes.
Researchers highlights inaccuracies in S.C. abortion brochure, The Post and Courier, March 8, 2016
Some 25 statements in the state’s “informed consent” abortion brochure are misleading or inaccurate, according to researchers from Rutgers University.
Mosquitoes (literally may) suck this year, The State, March 10, 2016
The state is already two weeks into pollen season and when that lifts, there may be more mosquitoes, thanks to last October’s flooding.
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