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Year: 2019
By RICK BRUNDRETT Since Henry McMaster became governor in 2017, the state’s tourism agency has…
For years, The Nerve has reported on the legislature’s control of the judiciary – specifically…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Since last year, the permanent workforce in the S.C. House and Senate…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Almost three years ago, the state House Ethics Committee quietly gave written…
With the start of the legislative session right around the corner, it’s a good time…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Over the last 17 fiscal years, state court officials tasked with policing…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The Carolina Panthers’ planned move of its headquarters and training facilities to…
A recent Pew Research Center report showed that federal dollars comprised roughly a third of…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Last week, the S.C. Department of Transportation announced that it had completed…
By RICK BRUNDRETT At least 100 state agencies have filed budget requests for the next…
By RICK BRUNDRETT With $1.8 billion more in projected general funds in the state budget…
In a greatly anticipated decision regarding the future of solar energy in South Carolina, the…
By RICK BRUNDRETT For the fiscal year that starts next July 1, the state Department…
By RICK BRUNDRETT As a sitting S.C. Supreme Court justice, George James is first up…
Five years ago last month, former S.C. House Speaker Bobby Harrell pleaded guilty to six…
By RICK BRUNDRETT During this year’s legislative session, S.C. Sen. Hugh Leatherman spent a total…
By RICK BRUNDRETT As many as 17 S.C. lawmakers traveled to Egypt last month, most…
The 2020 budget process officially began this month, with agency budget requests due to the…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Over the past four fiscal years, the state Attorney General’s Office settled…
This week a lawsuit filed by Sen. Dick Harpootlian over the Department of Commerce’s refusal…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In 2018, University of South Carolina head football coach Will Muschamp received…
A recent study covered by The Greenville News revealed that South Carolina has one of…
By RICK BRUNDRETT As state agencies prepare their proposed fiscal 2020-21 budgets, what they likely…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In announcing in April that DHL Supply Chain, a global logistics company,…
At Wednesday’s state Senate Finance subcommittee meeting to discuss expanding interstates, Sen. Nikki Setzler, D-Lexington,…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The possibility that two more ex-lawmakers could join the state Public Service…
This week, state Sen. Dick Harpootlian filed a lawsuit against the S.C. Department of Commerce…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Interstate 73 isn’t the only nonexistent South Carolina highway that has been…
By RICK BRUNDRETT A lobbying firm hired by Gov. Henry McMaster at $15,000 a month…
Next Tuesday, the legislatively controlled Public Utilities Review Committee (PURC) will perform the annual performance…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Although state transportation officials claim they are making serious progress in fixing…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Under a new city of Columbia ordinance, “extreme risk” residents who are…
By RICK BRUNDRETT When in session, S.C. lawmakers routinely introduce legislation dedicating an existing road…
By RICK BRUNDRETT With the start of the third year of the state’s gas-tax-hike law,…