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By MAAYAN SCHECHTER AND JOSEPH BUSTOS | The State (Columbia, S.C.) | Published: May 14, 2021 COLUMBIA, S.C. (Tribune News Service) Gov. Henry McMaster praised Bob Caslen who resigned Wednesday night as president of the University of South Carolina, just days after he failed to attribute a quote to another author in his commencement speech and accidentally referred to the graduating class as the latest alumni from the University of California. I think that Gen. Caslen, President Caslen did a splendid job in the two years that he was here, McMaster told reporters during a press conference Thursday outside the State House. He expanded the influence of the university in a number of areas.
SC House passes bill to address chokeholds, no knock warrants. Some say it falls short
May 13 South Carolina police are one step closer to having minimum standards.
The state House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday that mandates police agencies have basic policies and rules. However, the bill won t pass the Senate this year because it came out of the House too late in the 2021 legislative session. The proposed law also faces opposition from at least one prominent civil rights group.
The bill, H. 3050, will require police agencies to: eliminate chokeholds except in life or death situations create standards for no knock warrants
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Biden’s expansive agenda is a response to demographic and ideological sea changes in the American electorate.
Democrats want more government intervention than ever and progressives like Sen. Bernie Sanders rose to prominence by tapping into Americans’ concerns about income-inequality disparities. | Melina Mara-Pool/Getty Images
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It took a recession, a pandemic, massive demographic change and an ideological re-sorting of the two parties, but the Democratic Party has finally exorcised the ghosts of Walter Mondale’s landslide 1984 defeat.
The proof?
Joe Biden’s multitrillion-dollar spending plans.
His expansive agenda, in part precipitated by the coronavirus pandemic, represents the toppling of decades of Democratic orthodoxy on the economy and the role of government beliefs and practices rooted in fear of the tax-and-spend label that emerged from Mondale’s ill-fated promise to raise taxes.
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