by Andrew Zi-Qi Fang and Phillip Powell | Mar 8, 2024 | Featured, Politics
CHARLESTON — The city of Charleston is one of the most important voting rights battlegrounds in the country. In 2021, the Republican-led legislature redrew the congressional districts in the state, pushing 30,000 black voters and two-thirds of the black...
by Juliann Ventura | Mar 7, 2024 | Featured, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON — By the time Tracie Killar was 17, she said much of the food she ate contained too much sugar and there were health consequences from it. Killar, who has lived in upstate New York for more than 50 years, grew up in Albany’s South End area, a food desert...
by Yiqing Wang | Feb 29, 2024 | Featured, Politics
NEWBERRY, South Carolina – Despite losses in early primaries and low poll numbers in her home state, Nikki Haley projected confidence and determination during her “Beast of the Southeast” bus tour in South Carolina, holding four rallies in two days...
by Nicole Norman | Feb 27, 2024 | Featured, Politics
COLUMBIA, S.C. – Here in South Carolina, the spread of distrust in the integrity of voting has caused election administrators to quit at high rates. According to Issac Cramer, executive director of the Charleston County Board of Elections, 70 percent of top election...
by Esther Frances | Feb 22, 2024 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON – Congress approved billions of dollars in recent years to support new nuclear energy technology. Despite this, advanced reactor projects have yet to break ground in the United States, delaying the fight against climate change, experts said. One big reason...
by Juliann Ventura | Feb 15, 2024 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Layna Martinez, an alum of Biden’s 2020 election campaign, said that she’s having an identity crisis. The 36-year-old considered herself a lifelong Democrat having worked on political campaigns for the party since before she could vote, but now, she...