By Seanna Adcox | Editor-in-chief
Danny Ford II will stay on the ballot. Last night, the state Supreme Court declined to block a lower court’s order Tuesday requiring the state Election Commission to add his name to the list. Since the agency already did so, justices denied motions to keep him off “in an effort to avoid further confusion surrounding this special primary election.” The decision had nothing to do with the merits of the case, justices wrote. A schedule for the appeal will come later, they wrote.
“The public record does not answer those questions.” - Patricia D. Sanford, in her commentary below, about the lack of transparency surrounding state-licensed homes where people with disabilities are supposed to receive around-the-clock care.
Scenes from The University of South Carolina’s Horseshoe in Columbia in October of 2024. (Photo by Travis Bell/SIDELINE CAROLINA/Special to the SC Daily Gazette)
By Jessica Holdman
The University of South Carolina is touting a record-breaking year of fundraising. Most of the money raised will go to athletics. The largest gift of the year went to the medical school, named in honor of the late Kay Floyd, who died in 2023, and the late Dr. Eddie Floyd of Florence, who died in January at age 91.
Prosecutors say vulnerable adults were neglected at the community residential care facility pictured above at 1133 Bexley St. in North Charleston. (Photo by and courtesy of Patricia D. Sanford)
COMMENTARY
By Patricia D. Sanford
The author of this commentary is the full-time caregiver of her son with disabilities. A 27-year-old landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling was supposed to help people with disabilities. “But moving people out of large institutions does not automatically create integration, dignity, or safety,” she writes: What prosecutors say happened at the group home above provides an example of the need for checks and transparency.
According to Census data, about one in five workers employed in Charleston County in 2023 lived more than 50 miles away, amounting to more than 50,000 long-distance commuters. (Getty Images)
COMMENTARY
By Luca Gattoni-Celli
This commentary author, a Mount Pleasant native, makes the case that government development regulations are what’s driving South Carolinians’ traffic woes, as efforts to prevent sprawl lengthen commutes. “The state’s fiscally sound neighborhoods of the future probably resemble Mount Pleasant’s colonial-era Old Village,” he writes.
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