Month: September 2015
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Why tax cuts and spending cuts are well nigh impossible in GOP-dominated South Carolina Eleven years…
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WHERE’D THIS ROUNDABOUT COME FROM? AND WHO ASKED FOR THIS MEDIAN? Last Friday’s column by…
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South Carolina’s top court has agreed to hear two related cases dealing with part of…
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TRANSPORTATION OFFICIALS ARE HAVING SECRET MEETINGS ABOUT MAJOR PROJECTS. AND WHO’S GONNA STOP THEM? A…
In fiscal 2013, the S.C. Department of Transportation outsourced 70 percent of its total expenditures,…
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A small state agency that was given the power under a law passed last year…
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DALEN STILL WON’T PAY FOR BIZ LICENSE Readers may recall John Dalen, the contractor and…
As hundreds of bills slogged their way through the General Assembly earlier this year, one…
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For South Carolina lawmakers, “ethics reform” is about making it harder to fall afoul of…
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‘THE BOTTOM LINE IS GETTING STARTED’ Almost since The Nerve began, we’ve covered the quiet…
In a Sept. 1 letter to ex-S.C. House Speaker Bobby Harrell, House Ethics Committee Chairman…
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YOU MIGHT BE ENTITLED TO A TAX BREAK ON THAT PURCHASE. BUT DON’T EXPECT ANYBODY…
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PROGRAMMING NOTE: The Nerve’s editor is on vacation. In lieu of the normal story lineup,…
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IF YOU SEND IT TO GOVERNMENT, GOVERNMENT WILL SPEND IT HOWEVER GOVERNMENT WANTS On Wednesday the…
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HOW CAN THE INFRASTRUCTURE BANK BE IMPROVED? WELL, FOR STARTERS: ELIMINATE IT. With the passage…
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Below is a list of the 25 highest total payments in 2014 by companies, trade…
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IT WOULD SEEM LIKE GOOD NEWS. YET FOR SOME REASON IT ISN’T. On September 8th,…
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PROGRAMMING NOTE: The Nerve’s editor is on vacation over the next week. In lieu of the normal…
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LEGISLATORS TO PUBLIC: WAIT, WHAT’S THIS COMMITTEE FOR AGAIN? A House oversight committee is seeking…
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IT’S ONLY PENNIES, RIGHT? HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PENNIES Last week, a Charleston resident asked…