More than a dozen state agencies disregarded the intent of state law and collectively spent…
Year: 2012
A great deal has been written about Obamacare since the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling…
Lt. Gov. Glenn McConnell likely won’t be sweating it as lawmakers today wrap up voting…
South Carolinians who were supposed to benefit from the state’s multimillion-dollar share of a national…
Gov. Nikki Haley apparently doesn’t want an economic development agency that exists only on paper…
Editor’s note: This article continues a series of periodic profiles on The Nerve’s Citizen Reporters….
If South Carolinians want to know who some state legislators are looking out for in…
I would like to add to the story on the debacle of South Carolina’s state-run…
The South Carolina Manufacturing Extension Partnership, a mostly government-funded nonprofit that acts like a private…
Despite the state spending hundreds of millions on economic development, a new report suggests South…
Gov. Nikki Haley was critical of more than just $57.1 million in legislative appropriations when…
Editor’s note: This article kicks off a series of periodic profiles on The Nerve’s Citizen…
The S.C. House of Representatives is poised to receive $2.5 million more than the chamber…
The S.C. Department of Human and Health Services engaged in unauthorized accounting procedures to mask…
Despite the University of South Carolina’s failure to bring high-tech firms to its research campus…
If you want to know who controls judicial elections in South Carolina, you probably could…
It has been well documented that South Carolina is the only state in the nation…
Over Gov. Nikki Haley’s objection, S.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Jean Toal now has the…
If the S.C. House Ethics Committee finds Gov. Nikki Haley guilty of allegations that she…
The General Assembly is putting South Carolina taxpayers on the line for another $77 million…
A bill that would have strengthened South Carolina’s Freedom of Information Act died earlier this…
By RICK BRUNDRETT When state economic development officials in October agreed to offer a $31…
South Carolinians probably are accustomed to hearing talk of a government shutdown in Washington, D.C….
South Carolina is one of only seven states whose ethics oversight bodies cannot investigate and…
A zoning case in Oconee County offers evidence of what can happen when the interests…
South Carolina legislators, whose power dominates the three branches of state government, once again have…
The chairmen of the S.C. House and Senate Ethics committees said Wednesday they are open…
A bill that would have offered seventh-grade students the human papillomavirus vaccine on a voluntary…
South Carolina lawmakers are poised for the first time to funnel $2 million in state…
A new Nerve initiative in which Citizen Reporters monitor and report on their legislative delegations…
The S.C. House Ethics Committee is scheduled to begin hearing public testimony on June 28…
When the S.C. General Assembly passes a budget each year, just like when families plan…
Government entities rarely look the budget gift horse in the mouth, but if the S.C….
Supporters of special-interest tax breaks for wealthy “angel” investors in South Carolina will have to…
While Gov. Nikki Haley says she wants her administration to be the most transparent in…