By RON AIKEN Penny Tax Development Team LLC never got city, county business licenses The Richland…
Year: 2016
Roads are being repaired, all right. Just not the right ones. Perhaps owing to The…
By RON AIKEN CAE travel spending second-highest in Southeast, five times that of Charleston A…
By RON AIKEN Property Leatherman owns could benefit from Hwy 51 widening For years now,…
By RON AIKEN We report. They investigate. UPDATE 5/18: A source confirms to The Nerve that…
Wait – is the American republic built on the honor system? Last week, a…
By RON AIKEN University boards starting to look like legislative family reunions. The practice of nepotism…
A year ago, we revealed the state was decreasing the road maintenance fund. Not much has…
By RON AIKEN Since Operation Lost Trust, no lawmakers have gone to jail It’s a…
“It’s eating all my time. And a good bit of my money, too” Last…
By RON AIKEN Talk about ‘dark money’ While lawmakers have touted the evils of so-called…
By ASHLEY LANDESS If lawmakers won’t pass a loophole-free income disclosure bill, why not ask…
“You shouldn’t be knowing about it” If you keep up with state politics, you may…
By RON AIKEN DOR takes unprecedented measure to jolt troubled Richland County program into compliance…
By RON AIKEN $4.5M obligated for PR work; also: PDT team still billing county for coffee,…
By ASHLEY LANDESS At the South Carolina State House, corruption is legal and intimidation is…
By RON AIKEN Decision compelling candidates and members to submit banking documents sent before filing…
A reader tells his story. You decide. Yesterday Ron Aiken surveyed a number of ways…
By RON AIKEN Let’s do the numbers. Trying to find out how much executives and…
By RON AIKEN Some State House pols not averse to using government to intimidate opponents, critics…
There’s nothing private about them, but somehow they’re not “public.” Exactly one year ago, The…
By RON AIKEN Employee: Executive director paid board members for protection UPDATE: The day after…
By RON AIKEN County, DOR both prepared to take extreme action in adverse scenario If…
One senator’s telling response Recently we were forwarded an emailed response from Sen. Mike Fair…
By RON AIKEN Thousands of jobs promised, millions spent on research Remember how, back in…
Convoluted proposals aside, it’s not very different from lawmakers’ proxies policing lawmakers. On Tuesday, the…
By RON AIKEN Who’s responsible for the ongoing train wreck: County officials … or the…
From covering costs to gouging Here’s a question worth pondering: When should government charge a…
By RON AIKEN University bought 300K bottles of water for floods, hasn’t donated yet One…
Remember, our judiciary is far from independent. As the ongoing battle between Attorney General Alan…
By RON AIKEN Haley could have named successor herself, avoided special election After waiting too…
Legislative leaders can make exceptions for their favorites, but who pays the price when the…
By RON AIKEN Deal allows USC to finish Innovista project, outsource IT With a rubber-stamped…
What about anonymous employment of lawmakers? In her Tuesday column for The State, Cindi Ross…