Update: 5/31/13, 11:30 a.m. – Senate President Pro Tempore John Courson, R-Richland and a member of the Senate…
Month: May 2013
A state bill calling for the elimination of South Carolina’s income tax was discussed Wednesday…
The S.C. Senate’s debate on the 2013-14 budget dragged into a third week Tuesday, and…
More than a month after Gov. Nikki Haley signed a rushed bill into law giving…
Editor’s Note: The following account was submitted by Judy Adams of Oconee County and her…
A bill that would have placed a full-time school psychologist in every public school in…
Death isn’t cheap these days. Critics say regulations of South Carolina’s funeral industry block competition…
The S.C. Senate is running out of time. During Wednesday’s floor debate on the state…
Editor’s Note: The following column was submitted by Nerve Citizen Reporter Donna Linsin of Oconee…
In the months leading up to reportedly the worst cyber-security failure in U.S. history at…
S.C. Treasurer Curtis Loftis has become the second state constitutional officer to participate in the…
A Charleston-based pharmaceutical company led by S.C. House Speaker Bobby Harrell filed official paperwork with…
The mass killings in December at Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary School has forced lawmakers in…
The S.C. Senate this week refused to reverse its long-held tradition of funneling millions of…
A legislator who also is a volunteer state constable has co-sponsored a bill that would…
The Senate Judiciary Committee has scrubbed its version of an ethics-reform bill of any mention…
S.C. Superintendent of Education Mick Zais is the first state constitutional officer and the latest…
By RICK BRUNDRETT A conflict? Naaaaah. In 2011, S.C. Sen. Hugh Leatherman was among a…
Talk about sticker shock for S.C. taxpayers. Over the past 10 years, the General Assembly…
It’s apparently back to the drawing board for supporters of two bills that would regulate…
A Senate panel Tuesday scrapped major parts of a controversial House ethics-reform bill, putting investigations…
Two bills that would create an “angel-investor” law have advanced in the S.C. General Assembly…
More S.C. lawmakers in the past week have responded to the recently launched “Project Conflict…
An advancing S.C. Senate proposal aimed at expanding the state’s full-day, 4-year-old kindergarten program could…
Fresh off their legislative victory in the S.C. House, supporters of the move for South…
In 2007, longtime S.C. Rep. Chip Limehouse co-authored a bill that put himself on the…
After delaying debate several times over the past week, the S.C. House took less than…