The makeup of the S.C. House Ethics Committee isn’t illegal if you ask new committee…
Year: 2013
A House Judiciary subcommittee Thursday supported a plan by Majority Leader Bruce Bannister that would…
Despite a Senate bill that would eliminate the controversial S.C. Transportation Infrastructure Bank as a…
The chairman of a House Ways and Means subcommittee rejected a plan Tuesday afternoon to…
The South Carolina Policy Council – The Nerve’s parent organization – is considering filing a…
Taylor Smith is getting an education at the University of South Carolina, though not necessarily…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Section 11-11-90 of the state code is an inconvenient truth for the…
Rules are rules, as the old saying goes. And for the S.C. House and Senate,…
They’re called “Bobby Bucks,” and they’re the legislative equivalent of Turkish delights. Seemingly impossible to…
A state senator is proposing a major overhaul of the way judges are selected in…
Editor’s Note: The following column was submitted by Nerve Citizen Reporter Katrina Fay of Hickory…
Language that would strike an obscure state law currently being ignored by the General Assembly…
The head of a government watchdog organization says he plans to ask the S.C. House…
The head of the agency overseeing the use of state planes asked a legislative budget-writing…
UPDATE: After this story was published, the S.C. Attorney General’s Office provided The Nerve with…
Typically, state and local officials hand out big taxpayer-backed goody bags to major companies locating…
Incompetence, apathy and “inappropriate” priorities characterized the South Carolina Department of Revenue’s approach to data…
Despite publicly holding its hand out for more money, the University of South Carolina has…