MIND THE FINE PRINT Two thousand fifteen was supposed to be the year of ethics…
Month: February 2015
SOUTH CAROLINA: WHERE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION AIN’T VERY FREE South Carolina’s Freedom of Information Act…
Aerospace giant Boeing says it has 7,744 workers in South Carolina, including “full-time and part-time…
A bill now in the legislature, S.143, introduced by Senator Creighton Coleman (D-Fairfield), would end…
UPDATE: 3/4/15 – The S.C. House dropped a provision from an omnibus ethics bill (H….
GUYS, REFORM ISN’T ABOUT PROTECTING POLITICIANS AND BUREAUCRATS This week House lawmakers passed a bill…
THEY WOULDN’T, WOULD THEY? When some South Carolina lawmakers say “ethics reform,” they don’t mean…
From 2007 through 2013, a medical supply company in which S.C. Rep. Murrell Smith is…
Recently I argued on this website that the “privilege” of operating a business isn’t a…
By the end of fiscal 2009, S.C. State University was running a deficit of nearly…
BUT AT LEAST WE HAD A FEW HOURS OF OPEN, HONEST DEBATE It’s only mid-February…
CONFLICTS GALORE Over the last few years, The Nerve has revealed how a workers’ comp…
A global engineering and construction firm that prepared a recent plan projecting more than $70…
GO AHEAD, APPLY FOR THIS PERMIT Evan has been a hunter all his life. He’s…
A government restructuring law that Gov. Nikki Haley long sought could cost at least $22…
THEY’LL TAKE THE POWER ALL DAY LONG. BUT THE RESPONSIBILITY? NAH. South Carolina a legislative…
NEPOTISM, SECRECY, CONCENTRATED POWER . . . LAWMAKERS ARE ALL FOR IT! In South Carolina,…
VIOLENCE, GUNS, FEELINGS, AND THE SECOND AMENDMENT If we can just eliminate guns, murders will…
Of the 22 judicial seats that the Legislature is scheduled to fill Wednesday, nine of…
Update: 2/3/15 – In an order released to The Nerve this afternoon, the S.C. Supreme…