By RICK BRUNDRETT If you ask state Rep. Kit Spires, he’ll tell you his primary…
Year: 2014
By ALLAN YARID What happens when the building code is criminalized? Readers may remember me…
By RICK BRUNDRETT State law says you can only spend campaign money on expenses related…
The state’s judicial ethics office is investigating a Greenville circuit judge who issued an arrest…
Merry Christmas! As we celebrate the dawn of the world’s greatest miracle, may we be…
REPAIRMEN WHO JUST HAPPEN TO KNOW CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS, ETC., ETC. At The Nerve, we get…
By RICK BRUNDRETT ‘It’s about building relationships,’ says lawmakers about junket funded with campaign cash. No…
ACCORDING TO SOME LAWMAKERS, ‘FRIVOLOUS COMPLAINTS’ ARE A HUGE PROBLEM. (YEAH, RIGHT.) You wouln’t have…
Over the last two years, House and Senate members have traded boasts about which chamber…
Under a little-known bill that quietly became law this year, a division of a new…
TRANSPARENCY IS WINNING . . . Two weeks ago, the South Carolina House has passed…
For 28 years, Denny Neilson served in the S.C. House, losing her seat in 2012…
THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE REALLY REALLY BAD With less than a month to…
The South Carolina House of Representatives recently banned so-called leadership PACs – political action committees…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Campaign records raise questions about propriety of transactions If Kris Crawford needs…
In a surprise announcement today, S.C. Rep. Kris Crawford, R-Florence, said he is resigning from…
CRAZY, RIGHT? Last Friday night at a meeting of the Anderson County legislative delegation, freshman…
From January 2013 through May this year, five state-government lobbyists with the prominent Nelson Mullins…
A FAILED COUP MAY TELL US A LOT ABOUT WHAT’S COMING For the first time…
A S.C. House rules proposal would have forced anyone testifying before a House committee to…
Newly installed House Speaker Jay Lucas is expected today to fill seats on standing committees,…
A special S.C. House committee that in late October recommended a rule requiring any citizen…
WOULD IT BE ‘UNCONSTITUTIONAL’ TO ABOLISH THE ETHICS COMMITTEES? In October, Jorge Roig, Associate Professor…
“If we want people to come up here and tell us how to spend the…
A little-known, proposed national accounting change could shed light on how much public revenue is…
When questioned by a State Law Enforcement Division agent last year, then-House Speaker Bobby Harrell…
DALEN: IF IT’S A RIGHT, IT’S NOT A PRIVILEGE I was busy repairing a homeowner’s…
As the S.C. House returns next month to debate a proposed rule that critics say…
CITIZENS ARE LYING TOO MUCH – IS THAT THE REAL PROBLEM? In a column last month,…
Last year, as all the world now knows, onetime Obama advisor Jonathan Gruber stated what…
South Carolina’s two biggest universities are once again asking the Legislature for millions in new…
WHY ARE WE PAYING FOR ALL THESE PROJECTS WITH TEMPORARY TAX HIKES? November 4, 2014…
THE ELECTION IS OVER. THE PRESS CONFERENCES HAVE BEGUN. WHAT ABOUT THOSE PROMISES? The election…
WHY BOTHER WITH STRUCTURAL PROBLEMS WHEN WE CAN JUST GIVE GOVERNMENT MORE MONEY? When we…