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SO THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENED? Since The Nerve began soliciting stories about government waste and official…
Month: June 2015
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Eight days after pleading guilty to misspending $93,958 from his campaign account, ex-S.C. House Speaker…
WHY MUST IT ONLY BE ABOUT FUNDING? The other day I was asked what I…
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‘DON’T MAKE THINGS DIFFICULT FOR YOURSELF’ Ask almost anyone to tell you a story about…
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Buried near the bottom of Act 114 of 2007 is one sentence that strips the…
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READ THE FINE PRINT AND THEN ASK: WHO PAID FOR IT? On Tuesday during debate…
BAD ROADS AREN’T JUST A COSTLY NUISANCE … THEY’RE DANGEROUS On the morning of March…
‘He couldn’t grasp the possibility that he might not understand the law’ My son and…
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Since 2007, Banks Construction Co. has received a total of more than $76 million from…
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AND YOU DIDN’T GET IT DONE The South Carolina General Assembly met from January to…
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On the S.C. General Assembly’s website, Sen. Larry Grooms lists his occupation only as “Businessman.”…
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‘YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP’ Last Tuesday’s story, in which we drew some of…
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When ex-S.C. House Speaker Bobby Harrell pleaded guilty in October to six counts of using…
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TWO WORDS: ELECTION YEAR One or more of the following statements are true: (1) lawmakers…
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Although the total number of S.C. Department of Transportation workers has dropped slightly in recent…
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If only these officials would apply as much energy to monitoring their own agencies as…
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Most folks probably think of the State Transportation Infrastructure Bank as just that – a…