UPDATE: 8/27/15 – One week after The Nerve first asked the S.C Department of Transportation to explain discrepancies between its…
Year: 2015
WHAT ‘UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES’? The Charleston Post and Courier has begun a five-part series on students…
The State Ethics Commission recently found probable cause that freshman Rep. Greg Duckworth violated state…
READERS’ STORIES ABOUT THE FREEDOM TO WORK Last week, the South Carolina Policy Council –…
While the restructuring of state government under a 2014 law supposedly will make it more…
IN PERCEPTION VS. REALITY, PERCEPTION TOO OFTEN WINS Any time you hear politicians talking about…
MAYBE WHAT’S GOOD FOR THE DEPARMENT OF TRANSPORTATION IS GOOD FOR THE LEGISLATURE, TOO? In May,…
The city of Columbia will collect tens of thousands of dollars over the next five…
Widening roads where no drivers will appreciate it The topic that fills our in-box more…
The new state Department of Administration paid about $61,000 for a web-based training program on…
A consensus could be developing that something’s got to give with South Carolina’s higher education…
A SIMPLE PRINCIPLE TURNED INTO A COLLECTION OF LOOPHOLES Last week news broke that Attorney…
YOU DON’T News recently broke that the City of Columbia’s minor league baseball team, an…
In recent years, BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina has easily ranked as the top-paid vendor…
SOMETIMES YOU JUST NEED TO CALL THE OTHER GUY’S BLUFF After a recent solicitation for…
Could South Carolina experience its own Solyndra? A state senator openly raised the question last…
A nearly $1.4 billion settlement this year over alleged investor fraud involving the national credit-rating…
HOTELS AND ONLINE RENTALS, TAXI CAB COMPANIES AND UBER, ETC. South Carolina politicians are all…
Lexington County Council discusses allocating $150,000 for the construction of a road in Chapin to…
ABUSE OF THE LAW CODE ISN’T A CRIME, BUT MAYBE IT OUGHT TO BE Two…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Hard to see how ‘accountability’ applies to this lawmaker When Hugh Leatherman was…
LOCAL GOVERNMENT CONCEDES MILITARY BENEFIT, RELUCTANTLY Clive is an officer in the U.S. military, and…
A payment by ex-House Speaker Bobby Harrell, after he pleaded guilty in October to misspending…
THIS ISN’T HOW IT’S SUPPOSED TO WORK This year’s debate to raise taxes was masqueraded…
‘LIKE SOMETHING FROM MIDDLE SCHOOL’ Since we began inviting readers to tell us their stories…
The S.C. General Assembly’s love of giving itself multimillion-dollar budget hikes is once again in…
IGNORED SENATE BILL WOULD BE A GOOD START This year our Legislature met from January…
WHEN FORGIVENESS IS EASIER TO GET THAN PERMISSION At The Nerve, we don’t condone defying…
For Richland County government, being located in the middle of dysfunction junction has its advantages….
S.C. lawmakers for years have bypassed the normal budget process by quietly slipping in earmarks…
LAWMAKERS IGNORE GOVERNOR’S BUDGET PRIORITIES (AGAIN) While the governor’s vetoes may have totaled a miniscule…
The head of South Carolina’s probation agency says he met with the State Law Enforcement…
OR IS IT A REALLY EXPENSIVE WAY TO THROW STUFF AWAY? Skepticism about the virtues…
A Greenville-based, government watchdog organization is asking the S.C. Supreme Court to declare part of…