By RICK BRUNDRETT Per diem for lawmakers who live within walking distance of the State…
Year: 2012
Once again, the S.C. Senate has rebuffed the chance to elevate South Carolina from its…
The ethics reform traveling circus made its final pre-Christmas stop last week before a special…
Editor’s Note: The following column was submitted by Nerve Citizen Reporter Alberta Wasden. An accountant,…
Standing in front of reporters and flanked by a huddle of agency heads with little…
Buried near the bottom of a roughly 100-page S.C. Senate bill that would create a…
An S.C. House member on Tuesday reintroduced a bill proposing major reforms in the state’s…
South Carolina’s economy is moving in the right direction, though there is plenty of room…
Editor’s note: The following column was submitted by Nerve Citizen Reporter Larry Barnett of Fort…
The state’s top court doesn’t always interpret the S.C. Freedom of Information Act liberally –…
The S.C. Budget and Control Board on Wednesday approved the distribution of more than $44…
In 1990, Operation Lost Trust exposed shocking degrees of criminal corruption in South Carolina’s state…
Jan. 10 marked the first meeting of the new year for the Charleston City Council…
Nerve Citizen Reporter Larry Barnett of Fort Mill shows no signs of slowing down his…
S.C. House Speaker Bobby Harrell likes to openly brag about how his 124-member chamber initiates…
Editor’s Note: The following column was submitted by Nerve Citizen Reporter Tom Hatfield of Hilton…
You already may know that South Carolina spends $896 million annually on economic development incentives,…
Editor’s Note: This article continues a series of stories on projects by The Nerve’s Citizen…
S.C. Rep. Todd Rutherford lives less than two miles from the State House, yet if…
By RICK BRUNDRETT When it comes to who’s a judge, what the legislature says, goes….
In a state where many are calling for massive ethics reforms, the push by South…
Less than a month after Gov. Nikki Haley signed a 2011 law allowing Richland County’s…
A judicial screening committee dominated by state lawmakers has nominated a top court administrator and…
Although nearly two years behind schedule, the planned South Carolina Tissue plant in Barnwell County…
South Carolina’s Department of Motor Vehicles collected more than $260 million last fiscal year, but…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Lawmakers don’t know reason for junket, but they were happy to go…
Editor’s Note: The Nerve this week is republishing some of its biggest scoops over its nearly…
By RICK BRUNDRETT LOBBYISTS MAKING TRUCKLOADS OF MONEY OFF YOUR LOCAL GOVERNMENTS Since 2003, at…
Editor’s Note: The Nerve this week is republishing some of its biggest scoops over its…
Editor’s Note: The Nerve this week is republishing some of its biggest scoops over its nearly…
The state’s top prosecutor isn’t budging from his position that the S.C. House Ethics Committee…
The S.C. Department of Motor Vehicles is unlike most other state agencies in that its…
In an effort to broaden government accountability and transparency, Nerve Citizen Reporter Don Rogers and…
Editor’s note: This article continues a series of profiles ofThe Nerve’s Citizen Reporters. Accompanying this…
While the state agency that is supposed to aid South Carolina’s jobless population ironically will…