WHAT’S THE POINT OF PUBLIC MEETINGS IF OFFICIALS CAN KICK THE PUBLIC OUT ANY TIME…
Year: 2015
Since fiscal 2013, at least two dozen corporate members of a nonprofit group pushing for…
THERE’S THIS THING CALLED THE STATE CONSTITUTION. AND YES, WE STILL HAVE ONE. Legislative meetings…
SUPERSIZE ME (QUIETLY) Every year, it seems, state politicos brawl over comparatively miniscule spending items,…
From 2008 through last year, the S.C. House and Senate Republican and Democratic caucuses collectively…
SINCE I CAN’T AFFORD A LOBBYIST, ALL I CAN DO IS ASK I read four daily…
A House-passed bill allowing South Carolina public agencies to take legal action against citizens who…
By JAMIE MURGUIA “It’s good business for me.” A freshmen lawmaker did the unthinkable on…
By RICK BRUNDRETT S.C. Reps. Murrell Smith and Leon Stavrinakis had more than a…
By DEBBIE NIX IT STARTS WITH ONE ‘GREAT IDEA’ Nothing can create an absolute knock-down…
The S.C. House meets today to begin debating a nearly $24.5 billion proposed state budget…
IT’S ABOUT CAREERS, STUPID I’ve never been accused of taking a rosy view of what…
THAT’LL LEARN ‘EM The South Carolina House recently passed a bill making it a criminal…
Taxpayers are on the hook for nearly $2.4 million awarded to a Massachusetts-based firm that…
PUT DIFFERENTLY: IS THERE ANYTHING THAT’S NOT THE PUBLIC SECTOR? Last month I received in the…
The leader of a national gun-rights organization says he has serious concerns about S.C. ethics…
MIND THE FINE PRINT Two thousand fifteen was supposed to be the year of ethics…
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…