For the sake of transparency, short memories, and people who think they know what I think or believe that I’m not conservative, the following are the titles to various articles that I’ve posted over the last four years about roads, bridges, the gas tax (or as it should be called, the motor fuel user fee), and other stuff that I enjoyed writing. To read these articles, please look to the right for a list, or use the search function or just keeping scrolling through the website.
2017 – The Year of Living Dangerously in the General Assembly
A Short Reflection on the Electoral College Effect
Argus, Ric Flair and the Looming State Pension Debt
Lee Bright and the Defense of Western Values
The Roads Bill – Reform in Progress
The Roads Bill – How We Will Pay For It
Bumping Old Hickory
The Roads Bill Amendment
The SCDOT Chicken Run
$415 Million of Surplus Revenue Applied to Road Repair
Our “Anybody but Donald Trump” Electoral College Fail Safe
Grading the Senate’s Friday Folder
A Short Reflection Upon Myths and Bad Tax Policy
Trumping the Light Fantastic in Greenville
The Planned Parenthood Roundabout
A Day in the Life – 14 January 2016
Star Wars as History Lesson
SC State Pension Plan Mechanics – A Study of the Short Sighted
SCDOT Yields to Roundabout Pressure
Planned Parenthood Investigation – All Apologies?
Office of Refugee Resettlement – Welcome to Obamaworld
Opposing the Blue Ridge Roundabout – My Letter to SCDOT
Marriage and the Modern General Assembly
Planned Parenthood – Abortion’s New Back Alley
Public Shaming, Borrowed Moral Capital and Kicking the CBF to the Curb
The Confederate Flag Vote – My Response to a Constituent
Toleration, Same Sex Marriage and Protecting Religious Freedom
Learning Curves, Senate Time and Doughnuts
DHEC Oversight of Abortion Clinics
“Sooey! Sooey!” – Our Preferred State Bond Approval Method
The Road Funding Bill Vote – By the Numbers
House Road Plan Debate – Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory
Speaking of State Credit Ratings & Income Tax Cuts
The Bond Defeat – Turning Bad Government into Good
The Bond Issue – More Barry than James
Killing Tillman – Part Three: Our State Budget
Killing Tillman – Part Two: Picking Cotton
Killing Tillman – Part One: The College Years
SCDOT Financial Fun Facts as of June 30, 2014
Filing the Governor’s Road Plan
Paving Roads With Good Intentions
Localizing Road Repair
The SC House Marshmallow Test
Bringing Down the House Feudal System
Saving Taxpayers $1.2 Billion
Fun Home at the Fun House
Tax Reform and Gas Tax Articles
And the list goes on . . .