By DUNCAN TAYLOR Welcome to the world of South Carolina state government . . ….
Year: 2016
By PHILLIP CEASE When lawmakers want to give a troubled agency to the governor, look…
By PHILLIP CEASE The lopsidedness is striking After more than a decade of nearly annual…
By DUNCAN TAYLOR What counts as ‘official state business’? Most taxpayers would agree that use…
By PHILLIP CEASE A look at who you’re feeding, and how much it costs In…
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By MARGARET BRANDT We appreciate the diligence, but please, let us do our job. My husband…
By DUNCAN TAYLOR The biggest unpaid ‘tickets’ If you have the misfortune of receiving a…
By PHILLIP CEASE Leatherman and White get it done The term “legislative state” gets thrown…
By ELISABETH PARKER A look at the State House’s top influencers As of August 17, the…
By HANNAH HILL ‘This congressman is still in Washington . . . I’ll just stop at…
By DEBBIE WISE If regulating school buses is this complicated, what about education itself? Ready…
By HANNAH HILL Your legislature employs some well-dressed security guards. The South Carolina General Assembly…
By PHILLIP CEASE Want a top-salaried government job at a low-profile agency? Try working at the…
Notes on a sketchy-looking takings bill Two years ago, The Nerve posted a powerful story…
By DEBBIE WISE Outlawing the practice of taking money from citizens for no good reason…
By HANNAH HILL How ‘holdover’ status gives some senators unchecked power over judges Four years ago, The Nerve’s…
Thanks to a high court ruling, government entities can conveniently forget to say what’s on the…
‘We deem this bill to be constitutional,’ says bill about itself If you happen to be…
Our tax code is one great confusing jumble. There’s a reason for that. South Carolina’s…
Be it resolved: Everybody should learn a lot of good things Once in a while,…
You know, the one establishing independent investigation of lawmakers? Neither do we. Two and a…
Report invites us to reconsider whether public money should support ‘the arts’ In 2012, Gov. Nikki…
Gov. Haley signs ‘Workforce Development Council’ into law. Among our least favorite terms in state…
By RON AIKEN One leave of absence, two write-ups the extent of discipline taken Like…
If you pay taxes, you’re buying a lot of lunches for a lot of public…
By RON AIKEN After Nerve story, penny group pays $26K in fines, fees for retroactive business…
By RON AIKEN Of course, since lawmakers wrote the laws, it’s entirely legal. Influence is…
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Sometimes you have to pay for the privilege of thinking ahead. Recently we spoke to an…
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Disputes over schedules, fees threaten progress of rural arm of program If foul things roll…
Tortured proposal appears out of nowhere, House suddenly A-OK with it Yesterday the General Assembly…
As always, members elected the judges they liked best On Wednesday, a joint session of…
By RON AIKEN Multiple letters over years spelled out problems with agency, executive director Before he…
One tiny exemption seems to cover just about every public document you could ask for. South…
By RON AIKEN Hiott also paid son as campaign manager while enrolled at USC How can an…
By ASHLEY LANDESS Some politicians want to make it a felony to ‘mislead’ them. No…