Mary Green
Reporter
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Mary Green covers the South Carolina State House for WIS and our sister stations WCSC in Charleston, WHNS in Greenville, WMBF in Myrtle Beach, WTOC in Savannah, WRDW in Augusta, and WBTV in Charlotte.
Prior to moving to Columbia, Mary reported for KCRG in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and WFXL in Albany, Georgia.
She was born and raised in Tampa, Florida, and attended the University of Notre Dame (go Irish!).
Updated: Dec. 7, 2022 at 6:49 PM EST
|By Mary Green
Now a state senator wants every student in South Carolina to eat for free at school, starting next year.
Updated: Nov. 30, 2022 at 9:36 PM EST
|By Mary Green
According to Feeding America, one in ten South Carolinians faces food insecurity, including one in seven children in the state.
Updated: Nov. 22, 2022 at 7:22 PM EST
|By Mary Green
A new campaign is underway to fill thousands of open jobs in South Carolina hospitals.
Updated: Nov. 21, 2022 at 7:20 PM EST
|By Mary Green
The spike comes as Americans are getting ready to gather with their loved ones over the Thanksgiving holiday.
Updated: Nov. 17, 2022 at 10:42 PM EST
|By Mary Green
This year also marks the fourth-straight year educator vacancies have hit a record high.
Updated: Nov. 16, 2022 at 8:36 PM EST
|By Mary Green
A group of sitting state lawmakers is now suing a South Carolina school district over allegations it is training staff to teach critical race theory, and they vow more lawsuits will follow for other schools and districts.
Updated: Nov. 14, 2022 at 7:10 PM EST
|By Mary Green
The last time these six jobs, all of which are statewide elected positions, received raises was nearly 30 years ago.
Updated: Nov. 11, 2022 at 7:20 PM EST
|By Mary Green
Veterans are nearly twice as likely to die by suicide than everyone else.
Updated: Nov. 3, 2022 at 8:34 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
A new report goes beyond those numbers to shed light on why so many teachers are leaving their jobs.
Updated: Nov. 1, 2022 at 10:28 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
The Senate initially tried to pass a ban on conception as well but failed to garner enough support among Republicans to pass as restrictive a bill.
Updated: Oct. 24, 2022 at 8:20 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
Across the national average, scores have dropped from 2019, the last time the test had been administered to fourth and eighth grade students.
Updated: Oct. 21, 2022 at 7:37 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
Two of the candidates vying to lead South Carolina for the next four years say they have the plan that will keep South Carolinians safe.
Updated: Oct. 20, 2022 at 7:25 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
Emergency management officials urge South Carolinians to also know what to do in an earthquake: drop, cover, and hold on.
Updated: Oct. 19, 2022 at 8:23 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
The fate of South Carolina’s current abortion law, and if it can be legally enforced, now lies with the state’s five Supreme Court justices.
Updated: Oct. 13, 2022 at 8:52 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
So far this year, new companies have brought more than 3,000 jobs and around $1.4 billion in capital investment to South Carolina.
Updated: Oct. 10, 2022 at 8:38 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
South Carolina is facing an ongoing and worsening challenge to recruit and retain teachers.
Updated: Oct. 7, 2022 at 8:54 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
Poll workers play an essential role in elections, keeping voters from waiting in line for too long and ensuring every vote is properly counted.
Updated: Oct. 6, 2022 at 7:22 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
Limited affordable housing near military bases was one of the concerns repeatedly brought up during the annual governor’s commanders briefing in Columbia on Thursday.
Updated: Sep. 27, 2022 at 4:30 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press and Mary Green
The state House can accept that version and send it to the governor’s desk, where it will likely be signed into law.
Updated: Sep. 26, 2022 at 5:15 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
On Monday, Pfizer asked US regulators for the OK to offer the updated booster to 5-to-11-year-olds, starting the approval process for that group of children to receive it.
Updated: Sep. 23, 2022 at 8:03 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
A 2022 candidate for governor is paying for a billboard that South Carolinians may spot on their commutes. But where they will not spot this candidate is on their ballots this November.
Updated: Sep. 22, 2022 at 6:44 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
The new law allows fictive kin caregivers to receive support and resources from the state to help them, as well as access services, such as being able to obtain a copy of the child’s birth certificate.
Updated: Sep. 19, 2022 at 7:03 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
South Carolina’s economic leader said the state faces increasingly tight competition among its neighbors to persuade companies to move here.
Updated: Sep. 14, 2022 at 6:46 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
At the lone center in the state picking up the phone, Mental Health America of Greenville County, it’s not just calls they are answering but also now crisis texts and chats.
Updated: Sep. 12, 2022 at 8:04 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
A DHHS audit found students are more than 20 times likelier to access mental health services in schools than outside of them.
Updated: Sep. 9, 2022 at 11:12 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
A push to totally ban abortion in South Carolina, or come close to it, is likely over for now.
Updated: Sep. 9, 2022 at 4:10 AM EDT
|By Mary Green
Less than three months after the US Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade opened the door for states to settle the issue of abortion for themselves, a Republican-led push to nearly ban the procedure in South Carolina is over for now.
Updated: Aug. 31, 2022 at 9:23 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
A near-ban on abortion in South Carolina is now closer to becoming law.
Updated: Aug. 26, 2022 at 7:07 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
A coalition of South Carolina teachers, doctors, and mental health professionals is calling for the state to be more proactive in ensuring schools are safe, saying South Carolina cannot wait until after a tragedy to bolster school safety.
Updated: Aug. 25, 2022 at 9:04 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Mary Green
Gov. Henry McMaster held a ceremonial signing Thursday for a bill that provides state employees with paid family leave for the birth, adoption or fostering of a child.
Updated: Aug. 23, 2022 at 7:00 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
State law requires these youths to be under the jurisdiction of the South Carolina Department of Mental Health, as it is the agency best fit to serve their needs, not DJJ.
Updated: Aug. 22, 2022 at 8:03 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
Congress has until the end of September to reauthorize the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program, or services could be disrupted.
Updated: Aug. 19, 2022 at 7:49 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
Like so many others, South Carolina is where Neil Derrick of Columbia began his service as a Marine.
Updated: Aug. 15, 2022 at 6:16 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
Thousands of South Carolina students are now back in the classroom or going back this week as they start another school year impacted by the pandemic.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2022 at 10:07 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
Millions of American veterans will now have access to healthcare benefits for illnesses they developed following their service.
Updated: Aug. 9, 2022 at 12:46 PM EDT
|By Nevin Smith and Mary Green
The legislation passed without any support from Senate Republicans.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2022 at 7:09 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
The four-day bench trial in the lawsuit three death row inmates brought against the state, claiming its current methods of execution violate the South Carolina constitution, wrapped up Thursday in a Richland County courtroom.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2022 at 7:10 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
Attorneys for three current death-row inmates are suing the state, claiming South Carolina’s methods of execution constitute cruel and unusual punishment.
Updated: Aug. 2, 2022 at 6:04 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
Questions about access to abortions in are currently being considered and debated in both the courthouse and the State House in South Carolina.
Updated: Aug. 2, 2022 at 4:45 AM EDT
|By Mary Green
Education, school, lunch, Lunch Law
Updated: Jul. 28, 2022 at 9:50 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
The U.S. Supreme Court’s overturn of the landmark Roe v. Wade decision last month has opened the door for states, including South Carolina, to weigh imposing tighter restrictions and even total bans on abortions.
Updated: Jul. 27, 2022 at 8:58 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
South Carolina Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette is officially back on the Republican ticket for re-election in 2022.
Updated: Jul. 27, 2022 at 8:55 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control is urging families to get their children vaccinated against COVID-19 before they return to the classroom.
Updated: Jul. 22, 2022 at 8:06 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
For so many students, their bus driver is the first person to greet them on the way to school and the last person to wave them goodbye before they get home.
Updated: Jul. 20, 2022 at 12:58 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
The panel convened for its second meeting Tuesday in Columbia, about two weeks after hearing seven hours of public testimony on the issue at its first meeting.
Updated: Jul. 18, 2022 at 6:46 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
Personal finance is a required course to graduate high school in more than a dozen states, including most in the southeast.
Updated: Jul. 13, 2022 at 9:14 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
Hundreds of miles lie between South Carolina’s Upstate mountains and its Lowcountry coast. But this month, a group is making its way from one side of the state to the other on kayak, raft, and their own two feet and they want South Carolinians to come join them.
Updated: Jul. 8, 2022 at 9:09 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
North Carolina’s governor is taking steps to protect doctors who provide abortions and patients seeking them, and his action is aimed at nearby states like South Carolina, which will almost certainly soon restrict or completely cut off abortion access.
Updated: Jul. 7, 2022 at 7:21 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
As state legislators meet at South Carolina’s State House for the first meeting that will lay the groundwork for changes to the state’s abortion law, Planned Parenthood hosts a “Day of Action” rally outside.
Updated: Jul. 6, 2022 at 6:22 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
Most abortions in South Carolina are now prohibited after six weeks, the state’s new law does allow for exceptions for rape and incest at up to 20 weeks.
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