SC House Speaker: Most Powerful, Least Accountable By Ashley Landess Why does it matter…
Year: 2013
In recently reappointing Reynolds Williams to the state Retirement System Investment Commission, S.C. Sen. Hugh…
Editor’s Note: Janet Spencer is a grassroots leader in Horry County and the head of…
The S.C. Department of Transportation’s internal watchdog has been stripped of his authority to conduct…
As the great-nephew of a deceased South Carolina governor, state Rep. Walt McLeod III has…
Two days after the S.C. House sustained Gov. Nikki Haley’s veto of $1.75 million for…
In the waning days of this year’s regular legislative session, Gov. Nikki Haley made a…
By RICK BRUNDRETT It may be hard to miss a pig in a dress, but…
If you want to put on the black robe in South Carolina, it pays to…
Consider this ethical sticky wicket: A state politician hires registered lobbyists as election campaign “consultants.”…
While one profession lays claim to being the world’s oldest, there’s another that’s just as…
Restructuring South Carolina state government will have to wait until next year, say two lawmakers…
There’s no question that state Sen. Nikki Setzler is the proud father of four children….
UPDATE: 6/26/13 – The S.C. House this afternoon voted 108-9 to sustain Gov. Nikki Haley’s…
When it comes to taxpayer-funded payrolls, Eric Bedingfield might have one of the most unusual…
If Gov. Nikki Haley agrees, the S.C. Department of Agriculture could purchase State Farmers Market…
One of the greatest casualties of the Great Recession in the Palmetto State was the…
What Boeing wants, Boeing gets. On Tuesday, what Boeing got was effectively a rubber stamp…
S.C. Sen. Hugh Leatherman, who wields more power than most legislators, apparently is still in…
Jackie Fowler wonders out loud if she will be able to continue offering health insurance…
Editor’s Note: The following column was submitted by Nerve Citizen Reporter Don Rogers of Greenville….
The S.C. Coordinating Council for Economic Development, which often meets behind closed doors, would have…
By CURT OLSON More on the State House’s ‘funeral cartel’ A Lexington County man who…
Three proponents of a state bill calling for South Carolina to resist, or “nullify,” the…
Amid the uproar over last week’s revelations that the U.S. government has been secretly collecting…
Palmetto State officials just can’t seem to give away taxpayer money fast enough to one…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Incentives council’s ‘public’ meeting closed to the public. The normally secretive…
A South Carolina Policy Council supporter recently took these photos showing the…
House and Senate conference committee members who met for the first time Wednesday afternoon on…
With just two days left in the General Assembly’s regular session, one of the state’s…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Over the past six fiscal years, medical businesses with ties to…
The referral of an ethics complaint against Sen. Robert Ford to the S.C. attorney general…
Editor’s note: The following column was submitted by Nerve Citizen Reporter Donna Linsin of Oconee…
Update: 5/31/13, 11:30 a.m. – Senate President Pro Tempore John Courson, R-Richland and a member of the Senate…
A state bill calling for the elimination of South Carolina’s income tax was discussed Wednesday…