3 3 concealed 3 weapons permits are on the rise in South Carolina. According to the fbi nearly 50thousand people in the state either wanted to buy or carry concealed weapons during the month of december. Thats a new high for the state. Firearms trainer Elaine Henderson says her classes have been full lately. 3 being prepared starts first of all by having the firearm. If you dont have it on you it serves no purpose. The second is beiei able to use it. Have you drilled yourself, prepared yourself, used it enough in the range and practice to if you needed to utilized it you background checks were conducted last year in the 3 schools across the state would have more people with guns. Protecting your children under a new bill just introduced at the state house. But not everyone thinks thats a good idea. Because of who would be armed. Robert kittle tells us why. 3 the bill would create new School Protection officers. To add another layer of protection to help School Resource officers. School
To take a few weeks if not longer. They think theyll be able to pull together a bill. Conservative republicans are leary about raising the gas tax without a significant cut in other taxes and want changes in who runs the department of transportation. The democrats want to make sure any tax cuts get to the largest number of people and dont threaten services. Well, staying on the roads, the Richland Penny Program is hoping to make moving around the midlands a little easier and safer. Theyrrset to hold a Public Meeting on this years bikeway projects that will take place tonight at the Lourie Center starting at 6 00. A former Columbia City councilman who was released on bond earlier this month for failing to file tax returns will no longer oversee richland countys penny tax funds. Thats right. Attorneys for Brian Dequincey newman confirmed hes resigned as chairman of the central midlands transit board of directors. The board oversees the city bus system and is funded through the penny tax.
3 the richland 3 Penny Tax Program just released its annual report and. In it. Details on where millions of tax dollars have gone since the program started. News 19s loren thomas explains what the county hopes to get done this year. 3 Richland County residents should be prepared to see more construction like here on greene street as the Penny Program plans to do even more work on roads in the county this year. We just finished the year so we thought it would be a good idea of whats been accomplished and give the citizens an idea of what they n see go to construction this year. Richland county transportation director rob perry says 31 Million Dollars went toward Construction Projects around the county last year. This year youre going to see more resurfacing, sidewalks, bikeways and our first real projects going into construction. According to the penny report. 127 Million Dollars in sales tax has been collected since the programs start in 2013. Were projecting another 110 million to con
Donald trump with its 25 . Ted cruz a 29 . Marco rubio at 21 , and ben carson and 10 . For the democrats, Bernie Sanders of 49 and Hillary Clinton at 51 . All eyes are on iowa, but in a few weeks, it will shift here to South Carolina. Reporter tonight is the first time that any voting will take place for the 2016 president ial election. The first dose the candidates who when will have more momentum going into the next caucus. It will determine lead to a determination of who will become the president ial nominee. Reporter political analysts say winners of the Iowa Caucuses will set the stage for the rest of the primaries. If you do well, then you will be able to present your ideas, present your candidate c to a set of voters and come out a winner. People in other states think there must be something to take a closer look at those people. Reporter it typically has a Strong Influence on who gets the nomination. In the last elections, whoever won the republican primary went on to win the n
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