{"id":44450,"date":"2014-06-05T17:00:23","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T17:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/local_paper_university_of_charleston_bill_sees_setback_after_emotional_s-c\/"},"modified":"2014-06-05T17:00:23","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T17:00:23","slug":"local_paper_university_of_charleston_bill_sees_setback_after_emotional_s-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44450","title":{"rendered":"(Local Paper) University of Charleston bill sees setback after emotional S.C. Senate debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bill that would have established the Lowcountry&#8217;s first comprehensive research university may have lost its best chance of passing Wednesday when some of the S.C. Senate&#8217;s most powerful voices put up a significant roadblock to the measure.<\/p>\n<p>The lengthy Senate debate also featured an emotional plea from Sen. Harvey Peeler, R-Gaffney, the Senate majority leader, who lamented the aggressive, often personal politics that he said Charleston legislators employed to see the bill passed.<\/p>\n<p>While the bill is not entirely dead, Sen. Larry Grooms, R-Charleston, who has fought for the measure, worries that a failure to get a vote on the bill with just one full day left in this year&#8217;s legislative session means the Senate may have lost its best chance to pass it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/article\/20140604\/PC1603\/140609618\/1031\/university-of-charleston-bill-sees-setback-after-emotional-sc-senate-debate\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bill that would have established the Lowcountry&#8217;s first comprehensive research university may have lost its best chance of passing Wednesday when some of the S.C. Senate&#8217;s most powerful voices put up a significant roadblock to the measure. The lengthy<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44450\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,54,615,589,149,111,168,151,619,34,105,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-south-carolina","category-city-government","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-education","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-politics-in-general","category-state-government","category-theology","category-urbancity-life-and-issues","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}