Some lawmakers have endorsed a plan to lease South Carolina’s Educational Television’s excess capacity to create a wireless broadband network. ‘The State’ reported that supporters say the plan will bring in revenue, while offering a new technology, for a fee.

South Carolina’s financial leaders have delayed a possible cut of $200 million from the state’s budget. The Budget and Control Board voted Thursday to delay action on chopping all agencies by 4 percent, or $200 million.

South Carolina’s Consumer Affairs Department has laid off 24 employees as it struggles with a budget deficit from last year.

He’s staying in office! South Carolina’s Governor Sanford explains why he won’t step down. Governor Sanford admits that he did think about resigning… after announcing he had cheated on his wife. Monday, Gov. Sanford said he spent the weekend soul-searching…praying…and talking to friends and lawmakers…and has decided he will not resign. WJBF News Channel 6’s SC Capitol reporter, Robert Kittle, is in Columbia…with the latest in the “Sanford scandal.“

South Carolina’s Corrections and Juvenile Justice departments are laying out plans to run a total of $47 million in budget deficits when the fiscal year ends in June. The Budget and Control Board is being briefed on those plans Tuesday.

South Carolina has a new record that doesn’t sit well with some: it’s the fifth fattest state in the country. One SC State Senator says that’s a major reason why the cost health care is so high. News Channel 6’s Joy Howe has his controversial plan on how to trim the fat.

South Carolina agencies are looking for breaks from the Legislature on laws that force them to spend money as they deal with $383 million in budget cuts the state financial oversight board ordered.

State Comptroller General Richard Eckstrom’s calls for speedy action on the state’s budget’s problems appear to be going nowhere fast.