Mary Green
Reporter
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Mary Green covers the South Carolina State House for WIS and our sister stations WCSC in Charleston, WHNS in Greenville, WMBF in Myrtle Beach, WTOC in Savannah, WRDW in Augusta, and WBTV in Charlotte.
Prior to moving to Columbia, Mary reported for KCRG in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and WFXL in Albany, Georgia.
She was born and raised in Tampa, Florida, and attended the University of Notre Dame (go Irish!).
Updated: Jun. 6, 2023 at 6:48 PM EDT
|By Mary Green, Patrick Phillips and Steven Ardary
Gov. Henry McMaster is calling on state lawmakers to create stiffer penalties for illegal gun possession and reform the state’s bond process.
Updated: Jun. 1, 2023 at 11:40 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
Protections for working moms who are breastfeeding are now in effect across the U.S., and a 2020 South Carolina state law played a key role in motivating Congress to enact them nationwide.
Updated: May. 25, 2023 at 7:46 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
As of Thursday morning, most abortions in South Carolina are now prohibited before the time many women know they are pregnant.
Updated: May. 18, 2023 at 5:44 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
Soon enough, summertime fruits and vegetables will be in season and available across South Carolina.
Updated: May. 17, 2023 at 11:23 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
After a marathon, 23-plus-hour debate, a bill that would drastically slash abortion access in South Carolina has just cleared a major hurdle.
Updated: May. 1, 2023 at 5:43 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
In just the last six months, South Carolina leaders have announced more than $15 billion in economic development investments across the state.
Updated: Apr. 27, 2023 at 8:14 AM EDT
|By Mary Green and Steven Ardary
A push to ban abortion from conception in South Carolina, and enact one of the most restrictive laws in the country, is now seemingly done for the year.
Updated: Apr. 10, 2023 at 6:15 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
South Carolina’s governor, attorney general, and a number of lawmakers are among those calling for the state to reform how it selects its judges.
Updated: Apr. 6, 2023 at 9:34 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
Most people who get behind the wheel on the state’s waters are not required to have any boater education or training. But, boating safety advocates are hoping to see that changed in time for the summer.
Updated: Apr. 5, 2023 at 10:47 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
Police chiefs from around South Carolina urged lawmakers Wednesday to pump the brakes on a push to make it easier to carry concealed guns in public.
Updated: Apr. 3, 2023 at 7:14 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
Some state lawmakers are looking to put more safeguards in place to ensure South Carolina’s public charter schools are held accountable to serve their students.
Updated: Mar. 31, 2023 at 5:15 AM EDT
|By Mary Green
Last year, South Carolina started offering paid family leave to state employees.
Updated: Mar. 15, 2023 at 10:46 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
Thousands of South Carolinians would get pay raises under the nearly $14 billion state budget the House of Representatives passed Wednesday.
Updated: Mar. 13, 2023 at 5:33 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
On the heels of a record year for economic development, state leaders say their next focus is ensuring South Carolinians are ready to fill those positions.
Updated: Mar. 7, 2023 at 5:16 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips and Mary Green
State Sen. Dick Harpootlian, who represented convicted killer Alex Murdaugh in his murder trial, took the floor of the state Senate Tuesday afternoon.
Updated: Mar. 6, 2023 at 3:02 PM EST
|By Mary Green
During the pandemic, many Americans discovered the ease of getting groceries delivered straight to their doorsteps.
Updated: Feb. 28, 2023 at 7:08 PM EST
|By The Associated Press and Mary Green
Conservative states have renewed the push to create taxpayer-funded programs helping parents pay for religious and other private educational alternatives.
Updated: Feb. 20, 2023 at 4:48 PM EST
|By Mary Green
The legislation now awaits a debate on the Senate floor after the Medical Affairs Committee voted to advance it last week.
Updated: Feb. 1, 2023 at 10:59 PM EST
|By Mary Green
Lawmakers are fast-tracking a push to criminalize trafficking fentanyl in South Carolina, where it is currently not a law.
Updated: Jan. 17, 2023 at 7:33 PM EST
|By Mary Green
Legislation focused on education, healthcare, and criminal justice issues will likely be among the first bills under debate at the South Carolina State House this year.
Updated: Jan. 12, 2023 at 7:23 PM EST
|By Mary Green
If passed, the program would give families state dollars to pay for their children to attend private schools.
Updated: Dec. 19, 2022 at 7:44 PM EST
|By Mary Green
State law enforcement agency in South Carolina now has a new tool to track down criminals exploiting children.
Updated: Dec. 7, 2022 at 6:49 PM EST
|By Mary Green
Now a state senator wants every student in South Carolina to eat for free at school, starting next year.
Updated: Dec. 5, 2022 at 11:00 PM EST
|By Mary Green
South Carolina is poised to take over as the first state in the Democratic primary
Updated: Nov. 21, 2022 at 7:20 PM EST
|By Mary Green
The spike comes as Americans are getting ready to gather with their loved ones over the Thanksgiving holiday.
Updated: Nov. 16, 2022 at 8:36 PM EST
|By Mary Green
A group of sitting state lawmakers is now suing a South Carolina school district over allegations it is training staff to teach critical race theory, and they vow more lawsuits will follow for other schools and districts.
Updated: Nov. 14, 2022 at 7:10 PM EST
|By Mary Green
The last time these six jobs, all of which are statewide elected positions, received raises was nearly 30 years ago.
Updated: Oct. 26, 2022 at 11:49 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
The debate, hosted by SCETV and the Post and Courier, started with a question for both candidates on what South Carolina’s abortion law should look like.
Updated: Oct. 21, 2022 at 7:37 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
Two of the candidates vying to lead South Carolina for the next four years say they have the plan that will keep South Carolinians safe.
Updated: Oct. 5, 2022 at 8:41 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
Thousands of South Carolina students, teachers, and staff were sent into lockdown Wednesday as law enforcement responded to reports of school shootings in more than a dozen counties across the state.
Updated: Sep. 29, 2022 at 8:03 PM EDT
|By Dylan Leatherwood, Patrick Phillips and Mary Green
As Tropical Storm Ian inches closer and closer to the coast of South Carolina, state leaders are holding a new briefing on the state’s efforts to prepare.
Updated: Sep. 27, 2022 at 4:30 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press and Mary Green
The state House can accept that version and send it to the governor’s desk, where it will likely be signed into law.
Updated: Sep. 15, 2022 at 9:18 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
If you have an idea on how to make South Carolina better for its children or concerns about issues affecting them, your opinion is wanted.
Updated: Sep. 9, 2022 at 4:10 AM EDT
|By Mary Green
Less than three months after the US Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade opened the door for states to settle the issue of abortion for themselves, a Republican-led push to nearly ban the procedure in South Carolina is over for now.
Updated: Aug. 25, 2022 at 9:04 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Mary Green
Gov. Henry McMaster held a ceremonial signing Thursday for a bill that provides state employees with paid family leave for the birth, adoption or fostering of a child.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2022 at 7:10 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
Attorneys for three current death-row inmates are suing the state, claiming South Carolina’s methods of execution constitute cruel and unusual punishment.
Updated: Aug. 2, 2022 at 4:45 AM EDT
|By Mary Green
Education, school, lunch, Lunch Law
Updated: Jul. 18, 2022 at 6:46 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
Personal finance is a required course to graduate high school in more than a dozen states, including most in the southeast.
Updated: Jul. 6, 2022 at 5:22 AM EDT
|By Mary Green
Nearly 20 states and the District of Columbia have these measures in place, which allow courts to temporarily take away someone’s guns if they are determined to be a threat to themselves or others.
Updated: Jul. 4, 2022 at 5:23 AM EDT
|By Mary Green
The spending plan puts $273.5 million more toward K-12 education than last year’s budget, with every district receiving more money for the upcoming year than the previous one.
Updated: Jun. 30, 2022 at 8:40 AM EDT
|By Mary Green
South Carolina leaders hope this new law, which Republican Gov. Henry McMaster commemoratively signed just minutes away from Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter County on Wednesday, encourages more veterans to stay in the state once they retire from their service.
Updated: Jun. 16, 2022 at 5:38 AM EDT
|By Mary Green
Members of the General Assembly voted Wednesday to advance the spending plan.
Updated: Jun. 15, 2022 at 7:13 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
The focal point of this budget is a restructuring of South Carolina’s income tax brackets that will cut the state’s top rate down from 7% to 6.5% when people file next year.
Updated: May. 5, 2022 at 8:02 AM EDT
|By The Associated Press and Mary Green
The decision “will likely have significant consequences” between the Senate and the House and hopefully “cooler heads can prevail.”
Updated: Mar. 25, 2022 at 4:13 AM EDT
|By Mary Green
A proposal to give South Carolina families state dollars to send their children to private schools is up for debate at the State House.
Updated: Mar. 23, 2022 at 7:58 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
The controversial “Save Women’s Sports Act” is now closer to becoming law in South Carolina than it has ever been.
Updated: Mar. 19, 2022 at 11:01 AM EDT
|By Mary Green
South Carolina lawmakers now have less than three months to change the state’s law on sex offenders, and if they don’t, all of the more than 17,000 registered sex offenders in the state could apply at that point to be taken off the registry.
Updated: Feb. 18, 2022 at 8:51 PM EST
|By Mary Green
There’s a major push at the State House right now to cut income taxes in South Carolina, with Republican leaders and the governor looking to get it signed into law in the next few months.
Updated: Feb. 17, 2022 at 11:36 PM EST
|By Mary Green
People rallied outside the South Carolina State House on Thursday morning, voicing their opposition to two abortion bills under the General Assembly’s consideration.
Updated: Jan. 27, 2022 at 8:13 PM EST
|By Mary Green
Debate continued for a second day at the State House on Thursday on a bill to legalize medical marijuana in South Carolina.