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.
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South Carolina's Department of Education budget request says the agency will ask the Legislature next year to spend $150 million to help raise the state's minimum teacher pay to $50,500. -
Former S.C. Rep. RJ May, who is awaiting federal sentencing for child sexual abuse material charges, is charged with three counts of failing to file and pay his state income taxes for three years. -
A restrictive anti-abortion bill that would ban the procedure at conception and strike most exceptions allowed in the state's current six-week law failed to advance to the full Senate Medical Affairs Committee on Nov. 18. -
The Columbia Police Department said a person of interest is in custody after a morning shooting on Nov. 11 that occurred near Planned Parenthood. -
South Carolina lawmakers are restarting discussions about regulating hemp-derived consumable products. At the same time, the U.S. Senate passed a measure targeting hemp in the bill to reopen the government. -
SC Public Radio's Maayan Schechter asks Michael Leach, the former director of South Carolina's Department of Social Services, about how states should communicate about SNAP during the government shutdown. -
South Carolina farmers who harvest soybeans say the future is unclear after the closure of the sole crush plant in the Town of Kershaw and the U.S. trade war with China, a major soybean buyer. -
The Republican nominee vying to represent a Lexington County seat in the South Carolina House will be John Lastinger after the pastor won a GOP runoff Nov. 4, according to unofficial election results. -
First District Congresswoman Nancy Mace, who is running for South Carolina governor, responded to reports that she berated and insulted police and TSA agents at Charleston International Airport Oct. 30. -
