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Simmer & Stocks Sink—Buy the Dip

The Senate Medical Affairs Committee voted closely along party lines of 12-5 to reject Gov. Henry McMaster’s nominee, Dr. Ed Simmer, to lead the newly formed Dept. of Public Health on April 3, 2025.
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The Senate Medical Affairs Committee voted closely along party lines of 12-5 to reject Gov. Henry McMaster’s nominee, Dr. Ed Simmer, to lead the newly formed Dept. of Public Health on April 3, 2025.

On this episode of the South Carolina Lede for April 8, 2025: we catch you up on the budget action in Washington as Republicans get closer to implementing major Trump Administration priorities; in Columbia, we take you through the confirmation hearing of Dept. of Public Health nominee Dr. Ed Simmer; we also hear from DAODAS Director Sara Goldsby about what’s fueling a decline in drug overdose deaths; and more!

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Gavin Jackson graduated with a visual journalism degree from Kent State University in 2008 and has been in the news industry ever since. He has worked at newspapers in Ohio, Louisiana and most recently in South Carolina at the Florence Morning News and Charleston Post and Courier.