Maayan Schechter
Reporter, ProducerMaayan Schechter (My-yahn Schek-ter) is a news reporter with South Carolina Public Radio and ETV. She worked at South Carolina newspapers for a decade, previously working as a reporter and then editor of The State’s S.C. State House and politics team, and as a reporter at the Aiken Standard and the Greenville News. She grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, and graduated from the University of North Carolina-Asheville in 2013.
-
Roland Smith, a longtime Aiken County lawmaker who was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1988 and retired in 2014, died June 30. He was 92. -
A S.C. House panel started its investigation into a complaint made against a legislator. Last month, the chamber's majority leader filed a complaint, calling for suspended Rep. RJ May's expulsion. -
A handful of new South Carolina laws that include changes to blue crab regulations and the panel that vets and elects most judges in the state went into effect July 1, 2025. -
-
-
SC Public Radio's Maayan Schechter asks S.C. Hospital Association President and CEO Thornton Kirby about the potential impact to hospitals in the Senate and House proposals as Congress races to pass President Donald Trump's big bill by July 4. -
-
The state Supreme Court has put a temporary hold on an in-district pay raise for South Carolina lawmakers set to take effect with the budget on July 1. -
Suspended SC Rep. RJ May, a Lexington County Republican, has been assigned a public defender as he faces 10 counts of distributing child sex abuse material. -
SC Public Radio speaks with SC Daily Gazette's Skylar Laird about the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in U.S. v. Skrmetti upholding Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors and how it might affect a pending federal court case over South Carolina's ban that also includes adults.
