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The next time you get frustrated about the craziness of your local government in Charleston or Columbia or even Spartanburg or Florence, take a minute to thank God you don’t
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The next time you get frustrated about the craziness of your local government in Charleston or Columbia or even Spartanburg or Florence, take a minute to thank God you don’t
McBEE - Several years ago, a newspaper writer named John Davis searched for the words to describe how toxic and hard-fought the politics in this town had become. It was 2009, and McBee had been fighting for the better part of a decade over who …
To describe what was happening in McBee, a crossroads town midway between Charlotte and Florence, these were the words: “Blood feud.”
McBee’s story spans 16 lawsuits and investigations by five state and federal agencies. It’s a case study of how communities lose faith in institutions and how their public life frays
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