COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Vetoes overridden Tuesday by the South Carolina House would restore money for teacher pay raises, re-open the Arts Commission, support rape crisis centers and designate more money to Commerce to close economic development deals.
The House turned back 51 of Gov. Nikki Haley's 81 vetoes. The 30 vetoes representatives upheld reduce the Legislature's $6.8 billion combined budget and reserve spending plans by less than $4 million.
The Senate returns Wednesday to decide which of those 51 vetoes are completely overturned. An override requires a two-thirds majority of both chambers.
Haley's choice of wording about her veto of $454,000 to support 15 rape crisis centers continued to outrage lawmakers, who voted 111-0 to overturn it. The first-term governor posted responses to that and other vetoes on her Facebook page throughout the House's seven hours of voting.
The Arts Commission is about jobs
Over the past week, legislators and community leaders have joined artists across the state in opposing Gov. Nikki Haley’s veto rejecting funding for the South Carolina Arts Commission. They have argued that supporting the arts is critical to improving education, enhancing our quality of life and bringing us together as a unified community.Yet, while I agree with all these points and join those urging our state Legislature to override Gov. Nikki Haley’s veto, my concern is more immediate than the degradation of our shared culture. Simply put, I believe that a state with 9.1 percent unemployment cannot afford to put 108,000 “creative economy” jobs at risk.
You see, Haley made it clear that she does not believe the Arts Commission is relevant or important. She thinks it’s a charity and she couldn’t be more wrong.
South Africans sing happy birthday to Mandela
SOWETO, South Africa — South Africa's schoolchildren sang happy birthday to Nelson Mandela as he turned 94 on Wednesday, a day when he asks the world to honour his legacy by performing community service.
The nation's 12 million schoolchildren began their day with a special birthday song, ringing with the line: "We love you father".
"As we celebrate his birthday, we remember that he fought for us in the struggle. The struggle was to fight apartheid," said 12-year-old Kgaugelo Masunhloane at Batsogile primary school in Soweto.
Inactivity 'killing as many as smoking'
Report co-author Dr I-Min Lee: "Being inactive increases your risk of developing chronic diseases"
A lack of exercise is now causing as many deaths as smoking across the world, a study suggests.
The report, published in the Lancet to coincide with the build-up to the Olympics, estimates that about a third of adults are not doing enough physical activity, causing 5.3m deaths a year.
That equates to about one in 10 deaths from diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and breast and colon cancer.
Researchers said the problem was now so bad it should be treated as a pandemic.
And they said tackling it required a new way of thinking, suggesting the public needed to be warned about the dangers of inactivity rather than just reminded of the benefits of it.
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