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  • Dan Walters, president and CEO of Credit Central, an installment lender with more than 150 locations in the South, is his industry's main voice at the Statehouse. There, lawmakers are trying to decide whether short-term lenders engage in unfair business practices.
    SC News
    Installment lenders make their case to SC senators weighing reform. So far it's been a little rough
    Scott Morgan
    As State Senate Bill 910, aimed at protecting financially vulnerable people from predatory lending, courses through subcommittee, lawmakers crank up their scrutiny of the short-term lending industry with tough questions.
  • South Carolina Commerce Secretary Harry Lightsey stands in his office on Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021, in Columbia, S.C. Lightsey, who took over the agency in June, says that his dual-tracked background in telecommunications and the automotive industry will help him in a changing business climate. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)
    SC News
    South Carolina Commerce chief Lightsey pledges transparency
    Meg Kinnard/Associated Press
    South Carolina's new Commerce Secretary Harry Lightsey says his dual-track background in the automotive and telecommunications industries will help inform his tenure leading the agency tasked with growing and maintaining South Carolina's business development engine. Lightsey also told The Associated Press in an interview that he's committed to transparency about the millions of tax dollars his agency spends to persuade corporations to do business in the state. Lightsey took over this summer following the retirement of Bobby Hitt, who led the Commerce Department for a decade. Lightsey announced Thursday that agency veteran Ashely Teasdel will serve as his deputy.