A handful of legislators surveyed by The Nerve says the General Assembly has failed to…
Year: 2011
Chapin High School sophomore class president Matteo Macaluso singled out Lexington-Richland District 5 school board…
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…
If the best indication of how people will behave in the future is how they…
By Warwick Jones Citizen Reporter Differences seem to be growing on Charleston County Council as…
By Marc Knapp Citizen Reporter The meeting set for Oct. 11 was supposed to be…
It’s been more than a year since South Carolina school districts began posting their spending…
During the Oct. 6 Health Planning Committee Meeting, members discuss results of focus groups that…
The S.C. Law Enforcement Division violated state law for years by taking higher-than-allowed pension deductions…
At the behest of the Department of Insurance, a key informant survey covering “expert” opinions…
By KEVIN DIETRICH IT’S NOT SUPPOSED TO EXIST . . . BUT IT DOES After…
In a meeting of the South Carolina Health Planning Committee, Senator Mike Rose asks whether there’s…
Amid football season and the approaching holidays, all’s quiet on the State House grounds with…
By Marc Knapp Citizen Reporter It’s unclear what prompted the turnout, but speakers for and…
The goal of the Certified SC Grown program is to enable consumers to “easily identify, find…
A state legislator wants to toughen South Carolina’s loophole-riddled open records law, but a bill…
S.C. Agriculture Commissioner Hugh Weathers requests an interim adjustment of a little more than $600,000…