The Agenda is our daily news round-up of stories affecting South Carolina.
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College of Charleston is one of 20 schools that have popped up in Travel+Leisure magazine’s “Most Beautiful College” contest. Source: T+L
A judge is expected to decide tomorrow whether S.C. solicitor David Pascoe can continue his investigation into two influential Statehouse consultants, one of whom is also a sitting lawmaker, who requested that he be removed from the case after they say a SLED raid on their office improperly broke attorney-client confidentiality. Source: P&C, The State
A CofC geology professor says that NASA has declared Charleston “Eclipse Central” as the agency announces plans to livestream video during the total solar eclipse in August, which will send a swath of S.C., including near Charleston, into darkness in the mid-afternoon. Source: P&C
Allendale County schools are reportedly resisting a state takeover of their school district as a last-ditch effort to improve student performance. Source: P&C
The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, formed in the aftermath of the subprime lending crisis, is trying to hold Columbia-based National Asset Advisors in contempt for resisting a judge’s requests for information about the company’s business collecting payments from low-income customers who’ve entered into rent-to-own contracts on rundown homes. Source: NYT
NYT from Nov. 2016: “Federal Watchdog Agency Steps Up Inquiry Into Home Contracts”
Yesterday: “Machinists union closes North Charleston office”– Source: CRBJ
Today: “Layoffs announced for first time at Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner campus, other North Charleston operations”– Source: P&C
The White House has reportedly signed-on to a measure endorsed by the House this week that would extend tax credits for nuclear power production. Source: WSJ
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