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Governor Sanford Vetoes Exemption Bill — Call Your Reps!

By Sheryl ⋅ May 15, 2008 ⋅ 3 comments

Governor Mark Sanford inexplicably vetoed the exemption bill that I discussed here, that received wide and bipartisan support in both houses of the General Assembly.
Call your representatives today, please, and express your support for this law, asking them to override the governor’s veto. This is urgent.
And remember this, when you make your [...]

Save On Your Grocery Bills

By Sheryl ⋅ May 14, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Here’s a great piece on how to save some money on your family’s weekly grocery bills.
With rising prices and supply issues — prompting food warehouse stores like Costco to ration rice purchases per customer — people need to do whatever they can to keep food costs down. This article follows a Conway woman (Horry [...]

SC Senate Gearing Up For Huge Payday Lending Battle

By Sheryl ⋅ May 5, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

It’s do or die time.
That’s what it looks like at the SC General Assembly this week, as the payday industry gears up for a Thursday hearing before a House subcommittee on a Senate bill that would come very close to putting a stop to the payday industry’s free ride thus far.
The bill (which, [...]

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