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MIND THE FINE PRINT Two thousand fifteen was supposed to be the year of ethics…
Month: February 2015
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SOUTH CAROLINA: WHERE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION AIN’T VERY FREE South Carolina’s Freedom of Information Act…
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Aerospace giant Boeing says it has 7,744 workers in South Carolina, including “full-time and part-time…
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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….
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GUYS, REFORM ISN’T ABOUT PROTECTING POLITICIANS AND BUREAUCRATS This week House lawmakers passed a bill…
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THEY WOULDN’T, WOULD THEY? When some South Carolina lawmakers say “ethics reform,” they don’t mean…
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From 2007 through 2013, a medical supply company in which S.C. Rep. Murrell Smith is…
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Recently I argued on this website that the “privilege” of operating a business isn’t a…
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By the end of fiscal 2009, S.C. State University was running a deficit of nearly…
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BUT AT LEAST WE HAD A FEW HOURS OF OPEN, HONEST DEBATE It’s only mid-February…
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CONFLICTS GALORE Over the last few years, The Nerve has revealed how a workers’ comp…
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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…
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A government restructuring law that Gov. Nikki Haley long sought could cost at least $22…
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THEY’LL TAKE THE POWER ALL DAY LONG. BUT THE RESPONSIBILITY? NAH. South Carolina a legislative…
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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…
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Of the 22 judicial seats that the Legislature is scheduled to fill Wednesday, nine of…
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Update: 2/3/15 – In an order released to The Nerve this afternoon, the S.C. Supreme…