Month: August 2018

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S.C. law, contracts offer few privacy protections for huge ‘data warehouse’

August 27, 2018 The Nerve

By RICK BRUNDRETT If you receive health-related services from certain state agencies, chances are you…

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Year 1 of the gas-tax-hike law: Hundreds of millions collected, little spent

August 22, 2018 The Nerve

  By RICK BRUNDRETT One year after the state law took effect hiking the gasoline…

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Records: Officials sharply lowered job, investment targets for troubled Element TV

August 17, 2018 The Nerve

By RICK BRUNDRETT Element TV, which announced last week it will close its television assembly…

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Element TV plant closure: Taxpayer money down the drain?

August 13, 2018 The Nerve

By RICK BRUNDRETT Plenty of buzz surrounded Element Electronics’ announcement five years ago that it…

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S.C. legislative panel to consider PSC insiders for ‘do-over’ PSC election

August 8, 2018 The Nerve

By RICK BRUNDRETT An incumbent state Public Service Commission member, a past commissioner and an…

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Tuition, fees used to pay off skyrocketing university IOUs

August 2, 2018 The Nerve

By RICK BRUNDRETT If you’re a parent of a student attending a South Carolina public…