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SC Lede: SCDOT, Take the Wheel!

SCDOT Secretary Christy Hall, center, talks with Gov. Henry McMaster after the groundbreaking ceremony for the $1.7 billion Carolina Crossroads project on Nov. 8, 2021. The project will update the 14-mile corridor known as Malfunction Junction with new interchanges and safer traffic patterns. Work will beginning in the coming weeks on the most expensive infrastructure project in state history and will conclude by the end of 2029.
Gavin Jackson
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SCDOT Secretary Christy Hall, center, talks with Gov. Henry McMaster after the groundbreaking ceremony for the $1.7 billion Carolina Crossroads project on Nov. 8, 2021. The project will update the 14-mile corridor known as Malfunction Junction with new interchanges and safer traffic patterns. Work will beginning in the coming weeks on the most expensive infrastructure project in state history and will conclude by the end of 2029.

On this episode of the South Carolina Lede for November 9, 2021: U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) draws her first Democratic challenger for the 2022 election; a look at the newly proposed state Senate district map; what the bipartisan infrastructure bill recently passed by Congress means for South Carolina; 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.