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: 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.
Updated: Jan. 25, 2022 at 8:56 PM EST
|By Mary Green
Graham said he believes the US needs to sanction Putin and Russia immediately instead of waiting until after an invasion.
Updated: Dec. 28, 2021 at 7:16 PM EST
|By Mary Green
The state typically averages up to 20 quakes annually, according to the South Carolina Emergency Management Division.
Updated: Dec. 15, 2021 at 5:31 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips and Mary Green
The interim president of South Carolina State University said the college is preparing for a historic visit from President Joe Biden on Friday.
Updated: Dec. 10, 2021 at 8:08 PM EST
|By Mary Green
“I was trying to reach the most amount of people and change the world,” SummerBelle Fair said.
Updated: Dec. 3, 2021 at 8:12 PM EST
|By Mary Green
Millions of Americans rely on insulin every day to manage diabetes, but some report having to spend hundreds of dollars a month on this essential prescription.
Updated: Nov. 26, 2021 at 7:25 PM EST
|By Mary Green
“We’re probably going to run out of trees in early December,” Bryan Price of Price’s Christmas Tree Farm said. Price owns the Lexington County farm and also serves as the president of the South Carolina Christmas Tree Association, which counts around 50 farms as members, and he said many of them will likely also quickly sell out of trees this season.
Updated: Nov. 24, 2021 at 8:44 PM EST
|By Mary Green
H. 4605, also known as “Freedom from ideological coercion and indoctrination,” would regulate what goes on at any entity that receives state funding, grants, or tax exemptions, including public and private schools, colleges and universities, nonprofit organizations, state contractors, and private businesses.
Updated: Nov. 11, 2021 at 9:20 PM EST
|By Mary Green
The book, Gender Queer: A Memoir, chronicles the LGBTQ+ life of author Maia Kobabe and is currently the top-selling LGBTQ+ graphic novel on Amazon, which describes it as a “guide on gender identity.”
Updated: Nov. 1, 2021 at 7:11 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
At this point, 19 states, including South Carolina, have filed four lawsuits against the federal government over a vaccine requirement for all federal contractors.
Updated: Oct. 11, 2021 at 9:48 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
Newly released results from a survey of South Carolina teachers found the pandemic is worsening their frustration and discouragement and is contributing to some of them quitting their jobs.
Updated: Oct. 8, 2021 at 8:33 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
Victims of cybercrimes in South Carolina have already lost more money so far this year than in all of 2020, according to the FBI.
Updated: Sep. 21, 2021 at 10:15 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
Weekly school reports show those interruptions have affected tens of thousands of students and staff so far this school year, which just began about a month ago.
Updated: Sep. 13, 2021 at 7:53 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
A labor law expert from the University of South Carolina said he expects wages and benefits will rise in response to the federal vaccine mandate that President Joe Biden announced last week.
Updated: Aug. 31, 2021 at 9:43 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
The 140 year old Jerusalem Baptist Church in Bishopville burnt to the ground in a fire Monday morning.
Updated: Aug. 20, 2021 at 7:49 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
A temporary law written in the state budget, known as a proviso, prohibits schools and districts from using state funding to enforce mask mandates, at the risk of that funding being reduced.
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