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By AMIT KUMAR Are students paying for hefty administrator salaries? We’ve all heard it before:…
Month: November 2011
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The state Department of Employment and Workforce misspent about $87 million in federal unemployment funds…
The state Department of Employment and Workforce misspent about $87 million in federal unemployment funds…
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Alan Grimsley of the accounting firm of Derrick Stubbs & Stith presents his report on…
Boeing is a public body under South Carolina law because the aerospace giant has received “large…
McNair Law Firm attorney Francenia Heizer, speaking at the Nov. 14 Lexington Richland District 5…
The last of South Carolina’s 80-plus school districts has finally posted its check register online,…
State revenues are running way ahead of schedule, and that means there’s a boatload of…
By Warwick Jones Citizen Reporter It could have been a Hollywood western. Bristling with bravado,…
A handful of legislators surveyed by The Nerve says the General Assembly has failed to…
Chapin High School sophomore class president Matteo Macaluso singled out Lexington-Richland District 5 school board…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT Oh, don’t worry about that. It’s just the law. If you go…
Treasurer Curtis Loftis asks S.C. Commerce Secretary Bobby Hitt during the Nov. 4 Budget and…
From a troubled transportation center at South Carolina State University to a botched biomass plant…
Treasurer Curtis Loftis questions S.C. Commerce Secretary Bobby Hitt on an incentives plan being discussed…
By Warwick Jones Citizen Reporter Charleston County Council members wondered aloud during the Nov. 3…
The S.C. Research Authority, a state-created and state-controlled technology and real estate company, is adept…
It’s been nearly seven weeks since The Nerve sent SC Launch a state Freedom of…
After a brief explanation of how the state Infrastructure Bank works, S.C. Comptroller General Richard…
South Carolina’s 33 public colleges and universities collectively amassed nearly $900 million in “unrestricted” assets…
Treasurer Curtis Loftis expresses his displeasure with problems at the S.C. Department of Transportation to…
More than two dozen Charleston-area businesses have been targeted in an anonymous negative publicity campaign…
By Warwick Jones Citizen Reporter Charleston County Council member Vic Rawl was responsible for placing…
An inverse connection between issues and costs was evident during Thursday’s Budget and Control Board…
In South Carolina, convicted sex offenders who have finished their prison sentences can be held…
Speaking during the public participation portion of the Oct. 24 Lexington-Richland School District 5 board…
There’s no doubt that University of South Carolina President Harris Pastides is well-educated. With a…
When Lexington-Richland School District 5 Chief Financial Officer Karl Fulmer is asked if the district’s…
When Gov. Nikki Haley was an S.C. House member in 2009, she sponsored a bill…
Lexington-Richland School District 5 board member Beth Watson takes umbrage when fellow board member Kim…