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The S.C. General Assembly once again is tinkering with half-measures to address publicly funded lobbying,…
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The S. C. Education Oversight Committee heard Monday from representatives of two high schools on…
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Two years after more than a dozen state senators requested a review of the state’s…
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By now everyone is aware that dozens of candidates, both Democrat and Republican, were denied…
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When the clock struck 5 last Thursday afternoon – the official end of the regular…
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Open-government advocates expressed disappointment Thursday as a bill that would have strengthened South Carolina’s notoriously…
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The S.C. Department of Commerce is continuing its longstanding practice of paying for promotional services…
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Two bills that supporters expect will bring big changes to South Carolina’s family court system…
Three years ago, then-Senate President Pro Tempore Glenn McConnell – one of the most powerful…
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A conference committee appointed to continue restructuring the S. C. Restructuring Act reconvened Monday in…
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With just days remaining in the General Assembly’s regular session, time is short if a…
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While voter ID has, unfortunately, become a political issue here in South Carolina, it should…
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South Carolina loves to roll out the red carpet for big corporations. Over the past…
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The state budgeting process would seem at first blush relatively simple: An agency determines what…
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A newsletter promoting the 20th annual National Speakers Conference last year in Charleston – hosted…
An ethics case involving Gov. Nikki Haley already has been the apparent source of a…
By KEVIN DIETRICH For nearly two years, then-Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer and his staff…
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Imagine a state agency that exists only on paper but has real bank accounts totaling…
The S.C. General Assembly is moving to take control of a questionable legislative cash cow…
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When Gov. Nikki Haley took the S.C. Senate to task earlier this week for not…
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A state senator is holding up a bill that supporters say would make major changes…
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The Boeing Co. is feeling the love for South Carolina’s congressional delegation – most of…
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A bill that has moved another step closer to passing would have the state subsidize…
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Talbert Black, a Citizen Reporter for The Nerve who lives in Lexington, recently posed questions…
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While tens of thousands of South Carolina state workers were spending last Thursday away from…
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During a meeting of the Hilton Head Island First Monday Republican lunch group May 7,…
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When Gov. Nikki Haley in April announced that Michelin North America would invest $750 million…
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An S.C. House bill that originally provided additional taxpayer-backed incentives to national corporate headquarters locating…
Despite concerns across the country about a higher education “tuition bubble,” the University of South…
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Clemson University received approval Wednesday to boost the budget for its Lowcountry wind turbine test…
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An S.C. House-passed bill to monumentally strengthen the state’s open-government law faces a precarious road…
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The S.C. Senate Judiciary Committee has proposed adding six family court judges statewide, up from…
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Hundreds of businesses in South Carolina rely on them, though many folks probably don’t know what they are….
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Aspiring South Carolina lawyers must spend 1,200 hours in the classroom; conversely, the schooling requirement…
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Mary Atkinson, a Citizen Reporter for The Nerve who lives in Lancaster, recently posed questions…