MORNING HEADLINES | The long-awaited general election of 2024 is here. It will be a day that’s much different than many before, although some things probably won’t change much.
What’s different: Polls will feel less busy as about half of the state’s registered voters cast ballots early, a new record. And nationally, the presidential race is a nail-biter with seven swing states holding the nation’s political future in the balance.
What’s not different: South Carolina is a predictably red state, which means the balance of power at the Statehouse, where Republicans rule the roosts, isn’t expected to change despite all 170 legislative seats being up for grabs. At the federal level, most analysts expect the state’s congressional delegation to stay the same, too.
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Election day reading: The Gettysburg Address
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
“Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
– Abraham Lincoln, delivered Nov. 19, 1863.
CP NEWS: Camacho named new North Charleston police chief. North Charleston Mayor Reggie Burgess today announced the appointment of veteran Pennsylvania lawman Ron Camacho as the new chief of the city’s police department.
Charleston City Council approves Union Pier plan. The vote included the passage of a pair of intergovernmental agreements with Charleston County and the Charleston County School District, the first of their kind in the city’s history
Charleston moves forward on peninsula seawall project. After more than a year of negotiations and delays, Charleston is forging ahead on the Battery extension. The city and Army Corps of Engineers still are negotiating the design agreement, which will move the project to the preconstruction, engineering and design phase.
Boeing union approves new contract. About 33,000 workers at the aerospace manufacturer had been on strike for nearly two months, having rejected two earlier contract offers.
WEATHER: Tropical Storm Rafael forms in Caribbean. The season’s 17th named storm formed late Monday afternoon in the Caribbean and is expected to become a hurricane sometime Tuesday as it crosses the Gulf of Mexico.
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