February 21, 2026

The Nerve Archive

Where Government Gets Exposed

Nightmare on Gervais Street

What’s stopping S.C. lawmakers from reforming the culture of corruption that the State House has become? Who knows, suggests Robert Ariail. Maybe it’s haunted.

Or maybe it’s just that they don’t want to record thier committe votes, disclose their sources of private income, get rid of thier exemption from the state’s Freedom of Information law, or subject themselves to independent oversight.