STATEHOUSE REPORT | ISSUE 24.41

BIG STORY: Lawmakers look to overhaul highway department

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BIG STORY

Lawmakers look to overhaul highway department

By Jack O’Toole, Capitol bureau | Ninety years ago this month, S.C. Gov. Olin D. Johnston launched what was almost certainly the most dramatic Highway Department reform initiative in South Carolina’s history when he ordered a company of machine-gun-wielding National Guardsmen to march on the agency and seize it by force.

This year, S.C. House Speaker Murrell Smith, R-Sumter, appears to be taking a m

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