Editor’s Note: A Nerve reporter last month rode with a driver for UberX, a popular…
Year: 2014
OH GREAT. MY QUALITY OF LIFE IS NOW THE MISSION OF CITY GOVERNMENT. These are…
All Ted Praul wanted to do is start his own taxicab service in the tourist…
WHO WANTS TO SAY NO TO BOOKS AND CHILDREN? Which should come first: the idea…
Mum’s still the word when it comes to S.C. officials doling out tens of millions…
Editor’s Note: Political cartoonist Robert Ariail on South Carolina’s ruling political elite.
Update: 8/13/14 – The city of Columbia paid the McAngus Goudelock & Courie law firm…
MESSAGE DU JOUR: ‘INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY’ The phrase “on message” first began to circulate…
Editor’s Note: A Nerve reporter on Friday rode with a driver for UberX, a recently…
DO JOBS COUNT IF POLITICIANS CAN’T TAKE CREDIT FOR THEM? Usually when a business decides…
At a Senate panel hearing Wednesday, the S.C. Department of Social Services’ deputy director said…
Police in South Carolina are poised to start ticketing drivers for a popular smartphone-app, ridesharing…
Nearly eight months after a “destroyed” State Ethics Commission letter was provided to The Nerve,…
If you think that local school districts in South Carolina are controlled by their school…
HAVEN’T WE HAD ENOUGH SECRECY FOR A WHILE? The Supreme Court rightly reversed Judge Casey…
On June 17, George Parker, a law enforcement officer with the state Office of Regulatory…
By ALLAN YARID In Seneca, South Carolina, the state and federal laws intended to protect…
All courts shall be public, and every person shall have speedy remedy therein for wrongs…
On June 16, Gov. Nikki Haley announced that Singapore-based Giti Tire would locate a $560…
S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson can continue a state grand jury investigation of House Speaker…
Gov. Nikki Haley wasn’t bashful when news broke that the state’s unemployment rate had fallen…
REFERENDUMS ARE RARELY ABOUT WHAT THEIR SUPPORTERS SAY THEY’RE ABOUT When I speak out against…
S.C. House Speaker Bobby Harrell has bragged in recent years that House furloughs save taxpayers…
S.C. Sen. Paul Campbell serves on the governing board of the Southeastern Wildlife Exposition, an…
A BOARD, A DEPARTMENT, A COMMITTEE, TWO SENATORS, AND NO CLARITY A meeting in the…
WITHOUT SCPC, YOU BASICALLY DON’T EVEN HAVE A STATE A study recently completed by the Research…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Reformers of the Freedom of Information Act in South Carolina –…
The state Department of Education has been repaid $52,046 by the South Carolina Autism Society…
As the Internal Revenue Service faces tough questions these days about thousands of missing emails…
OUR DAY IN COURT The hearing before the Supreme Court Tuesday felt like the meeting…
It wasn’t an easy day Tuesday in the state’s top court for S.C. Attorney General…
As a Cuban American, I’m sometimes asked what the Cuban Revolution was like. My answer…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Ethics agency told to call advocacy group to ‘confirm understanding’ The head of…