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Over the last two years, House and Senate members have traded boasts about which chamber…
Robert Ariail
Robert Ariail is a Columbia, S.C., native and University of South Carolina graduate. In 1985 he was given the Distinguished Alumnus Award by the university. In 1992 he was honored with the Ambrose Hampton Award for distinguished service to The State newspaper, where he was the editorial cartoonist from 1984 to 2009. He has produced three collections of his cartoons; the most recent, Ariail!!!, was one of Columbia’s best-selling books in 2001. Robert has won numerous international, national, regional and state recognition for his work, including:
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize - 1990, 1995, 2000;
National Headliner Award - 1990;
National Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi Award - 1992;
Overseas Press Club's Thomas Nast Award - 1997;
Society of Professional Journalists' Green Eyeshade Award - 1991, 1997, 2001, 2004, 2007;
United Nations' Ranan Lurie Political Cartoon Award - 2009;
South Carolina Press Association award for cartooning - 2002, 2007, 2010, 2011;
Elizabeth O'Neill Verner Governor's Award for the Arts - 2012;
National Press Foundation's Berryman Award - 2012
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The South Carolina House of Representatives recently banned so-called leadership PACs – political action committees…
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A S.C. House rules proposal would have forced anyone testifying before a House committee to…
Last year, as all the world now knows, onetime Obama advisor Jonathan Gruber stated what…
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Gov. Nikki Haley has staked the credibility of her administration on the jobs and investment…
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In at least four different South Carolina counties, efforts by well-connected special interests to raise…