The legislative session that opens today in Columbia has every opportunity of demonstrating just how weak and ineffective S.C. Government really is.

Several months ago, the S.C. Supreme Court ruled that S.C. government isn’t doing enough to ensure students in poor, rural school districts receive even the “minimally adequate” education required by the state constitution.

South Carolina has reached a critical juncture where a maintenance plan must be developed to fix its crumbling roads and bridges.