This is going to be a short post because I'm currently working on building a legislative tracker for South Carolina that will help people track pieces of legislation in the SC General Assembly. You can already access one component of the tool that I think will be pretty
Accidental obsession If you've been following me for a bit, you'll know one of the things I've really enjoyed is scraping data out of different government systems. I became obsessed with South Carolina's Supreme Court after they issued a decision striking down
The six-week long "trial of the century" that ended just over a month ago was presided over by South Carolina at-large circuit court judge Clifton Newman. Newman was appointed to preside over "all pending and future criminal investigations concerning the deaths of Margaret Kennedy Branstetter Murdaugh, Paul
Last year, I started to get curious about the system that South Carolina uses to publish campaign finance disclosures. The first thing I noticed was that the system is really irritating to work with. I wanted a list of all candidates that had filed a report for the elections in