Jim DeMint sandbags Boehner’s proposal for fiscal cliff compromise - South Carolina senator and tea party leader Jim DeMint, who announced on Tuesday that he would oppose any fiscal cliff compromise proposed by House Speaker John Boehner which involves raising tax revenue, Palmetto Public Record reported yesterday. In other words, DeMint would rather send the nation’s economy over the fiscal cliff — potentially halting the fledgling economic recovery in its tracks.
Centralized system urged for SC gov’t computers - South Carolina state computer chiefs gave low marks for their agencies’ ability to prevent data breaches and called for centralized computer security management in a report issued Tuesday, according to The State’s Andrew Shain. And state agency computer information officers expect a high threat level of more breaches over the next five years.
Why South Carolina Still Segregates HIV-Positive Prisoners - During the earliest and scariest years of the AIDS crisis, prisons across America commonly housed HIV-positive inmates separately from their HIV-negative counterparts — though that practice has largely disappeared as science and society have changed, according to The Atlantic’s Julie Turkewitz. South Carolina, however, has hung on.
Harrell re-elected as House speaker - GOP House Speaker Bobby of Charleston was re-elected to his leadership post today, according to the Charleston Post & Courier’s Stephen Largen. Harrell, who faced no opposition, was first elected leader of the state House in 2005.
Zais, teachers talk about challenges, successes - State Superintendent of Education Mick Zais paid a visit to Union County schools on Tuesday to discuss successes and challenges with local educators, according to the Spartanburg Herald Journal’s Lee Healy. Zais discussed performance data, poverty and revenue levels for each school, and showed where the schools fall compared to others in the state.
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Just a few stray thoughts with the AIDS story.
If I recall, moving HIV-positive inmates to BRCI was a decision made in the mid-90s that was a less about segregation and more about cost cutting when they and a large number of people who were previously held at the state hospital were moved to another location. The general population at the time was very unhappy about that and it led to a brief period of strong harassment of AIDS patients with retaliatory responses (flinging cups of waste into someone’s face was pretty popular at the time). So strict segregation measures were brought in to sate the general pop (not to mention blue and white shirts who were tired of filling out paperwork every time someone involved in one of those conflicts had to be shuttled to Baptist or elsewhere).
I’m not saying that is right, but the article kinda makes it sound like we just waiting for the fed to drop its guard so we can fire up the ovens of Auschwitz or something, when it is really a long sequence of bad things created from poor, but at the time, pragmatic choices.