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Challenged by the state attorney general and Legislature, Columbia would likely need to replace nearly $4 million in the ...
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster said he does not plan to veto a measure that would threaten funding to cities with bans on ...
Columbia officials are poised to vote on repealing its conversion therapy ban at a special-called council meeting on May 27 ...
COLUMBIA — The S.C. Legislature overwhelmingly passed a $14.7 billion state budget May 28 despite concerns from some members ...
Columbia currently bans licensed therapists from offering conversion therapy. Attorney General Alan Wilson has called that policy unconstitutional.
"Despite the report’s claims, this is the same harmful practice of conversion therapy, just using friendlier language." ...
A fight over how much control local governments have over their own communities versus the state’s authority to step in is brewing in South Carolina’s capital city.
The Columbia City Council again delayed a vote on the future of an ordinance banning professionals from practicing conversion therapy, which attempts to change a person’s sexual ...
There are three reasons for Columbia to repeal its ban on conversion therapy for minors and three reasons to keep it, opinion editor Matthew T. Hall writes. Here’s what the Council should do, and why.
South Carolina state Sen. Tameika Isaac Devine writes that the Columbia City Council’s conversion therapy ban was the right ...
Columbia City Councilman Tyler Bailey writes that the city’s conversion therapy ban has ignited a wider fight over home rule ...