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: 15 hours ago
|By Dylan Leatherwood, Patrick Phillips and Mary Green
As Tropical Storm Ian inches closer and closer to the coast of South Carolina, state leaders are holding a new briefing on the state’s efforts to prepare.
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 6:32 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
A 2022 candidate for governor is paying for a billboard that South Carolinians may spot on their commutes.
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. 15, 2022 at 9:18 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
If you have an idea on how to make South Carolina better for its children or concerns about issues affecting them, your opinion is wanted.
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. 13, 2022 at 8:46 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
More than 30 inmates sit on death row in South Carolina, but for the time being, the state has no way to legally carry out their executions.
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 8:35 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. 8, 2022 at 8:52 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
The Senate legislation is a significant change to the near-ban legislation the House of Representatives approved last week.
Updated: Aug. 31, 2022 at 6:47 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
The state’s Republican-dominated House of Representatives gave the bill a third reading in a 67-35 vote to pass it Wednesday and send it to the Senate, where it now awaits debate.
Updated: Aug. 29, 2022 at 6:11 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
More people in South Carolina are eligible and encouraged to get the monkeypox or MPX vaccine because of a new way the state’s health department is giving it.
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. 24, 2022 at 7:45 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
The legislation allows mobile optometry clinics to visit Title 1 schools, offering free screenings and eye exams and fitting and providing students with glasses, with parental consent.
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. 18, 2022 at 8:21 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
The South Carolina Supreme Court’s order Wednesday that blocks the enforcement of the state’s six-week ban on abortion, for now, has set off a ripple effect of actions and questions about what comes next.
Updated: Aug. 16, 2022 at 7:07 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
Under the bill, abortion providers could face up to two years in prison and a fine, but South Carolinians who get abortions would not be criminalized.
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 7:48 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
President Joe Biden signed the PACT Act into law Wednesday, considered the largest health care and benefit expansion in the history of the US Department of Veterans Affairs.
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. 8, 2022 at 6:10 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
For years, many of these educators have been lamenting that they don’t receive a break during the day to plan lessons, grade assignments, or eat their lunch.
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 6:58 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
Last week, a judge transferred that lawsuit over to the South Carolina Supreme Court at the state’s request, and at this point, it is up to that court to decide if it will take up the case.
Updated: Aug. 1, 2022 at 6:51 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
The change is now in effect, as some districts across the state returned to the classroom Monday, with the rest following in the coming weeks.
Updated: Jul. 29, 2022 at 7:40 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
Help is available right now for South Carolinians struggling to pay their rent and utility bills.
Updated: Jul. 28, 2022 at 8:07 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
It has also sparked fears that other protections, like that to marriage equality, could be repealed in the future as well.
Updated: Jul. 27, 2022 at 7:48 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. 27, 2022 at 6:15 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. 26, 2022 at 7:20 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
The law that bans most abortions in South Carolina after around six weeks will remain in effect for now.
Updated: Jul. 22, 2022 at 7:47 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
A survey done last week of around half the state’s school districts found they are short, on average, about 15% of their bus drivers and technicians.
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. 17, 2022 at 10:25 AM EDT
|By Mary Green
That’s the new nationwide suicide prevention lifeline, and it will finally be active this weekend after years of work and preparation.
Updated: Jul. 13, 2022 at 7:18 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
This year’s expedition began July 1 in the Upstate and will wrap up July 30 on the ocean, as they build a smart reef along the Atlantic coast.
Updated: Jul. 13, 2022 at 2:48 PM EDT
|By Nevin Smith and Mary Green
This yearly, 30-day event aims to bring awareness to the importance of preserving the environment.
Updated: Jul. 12, 2022 at 6:45 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
The State Board of Medical Examiners and State Board of Pharmacy have until early December to draft protocol for how this will work.
Updated: Jul. 11, 2022 at 6:53 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
Smaller numbers of these ticks were found in 2020 on dogs at shelters in Pickens and Lancaster counties before the York infestation was identified last month.
Updated: Jul. 8, 2022 at 6:16 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
So, for pregnant South Carolinians, the closest access to abortion services would be in North Carolina, especially at clinics closest to the border in Asheville, Charlotte, Fayetteville, and Wilmington.
Updated: Jul. 7, 2022 at 7:16 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
A House ad hoc committee tasked with laying the groundwork for this change met and heard from members of the public for the first time Thursday in Columbia.
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.
Updated: Jul. 5, 2022 at 8:54 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
Nearly 20 states and the District of Columbia have these measures in place, which allow courts to temporarily take away someone’s guns if they are determined to be a threat to themselves or others.
Updated: Jul. 4, 2022 at 10:24 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
South Carolina leaders say the state’s expansive military presence is a vital part of its economy, and new figures reveal just how much.
Updated: Jul. 1, 2022 at 8:05 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
Gov. Henry McMaster and former state superintendents of education had called the way South Carolina previously funded its schools “opaque,” “convoluted,” and “fractured.”
Updated: Jun. 30, 2022 at 8:23 PM EDT
|By Mary Green
Along with expanding background checks for younger potential gun buyers, incentivizing states to establish red-flag laws, and putting more money toward mental health resources, the law closes the “boyfriend loophole” at the federal level.
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