By Seanna Adcox | Editor-in-chief
Happy Wednesday! There are no legislative meetings at the Statehouse this week.
“Let’s be realistic and have managed expectations about what that means.” - Cole Price, an executive vice president at Central Electric Power Cooperative, on the potential sale of the two unfinished reactors at V.C. Summer Nuclear Station.
A lawsuit will return to the courtroom of a U.S. district judge here at the Matthew J. Perry Jr. Courthouse in Columbia. (File photo by Abraham Kenmore/SC Daily Gazette)
By Skylar Laird
A group of students, educators and an author can challenge a state law banning certain race-based lessons, a federal appeals court said Tuesday, reversing a lower court’s decision.
The law has been part of the state budget since 2021. It’s technically called a proviso — a word I won’t allow my reporters to use because it’s government lingo not understood by most people outside the Statehouse. We call it a budget clause or directive. Such clauses are technically one-year laws, but they remain in state budgets indefinitely unless removed or superseded by another law. Legislators attempted in 2023 to replace the budget clause titled “partisanship curriculum,” but the attempt failed. Opponents who called on legislators to kill the bill thought its demise was a win. It wasn’t. According to conversations I had with people at the time, many didn’t understand the ban was already law. Opponents didn’t prevent the ban from becoming law. The bill’s death prevented the ban from getting amended.
Read about the law, the failed legislation, and the lawsuit. Read for yourself what state law says. The exact wording of the budget clause is in an info box at the end of the article.
Nuclear reactor assemblies pictured Sept. 12, 2024, in storage at V.C. Summer nuclear site in rural Fairfield County, South Carolina. (Photo courtesy of S.C. Nuclear Advisory Council)
By Jessica Holdman
Santee Cooper will know by the end of March 2028 whether the deal to revive the state’s failed nuclear expansion in Fairfield County will officially go through. That’s the deadline for New York investment firm Brookfield Asset Management to give a final decision.
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