October 2019 – The Nerve Archive

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Throwback Thursday: Not all state agencies comply with FOIA requests

October 31, 2019 The Nerve

This week a lawsuit filed by Sen. Dick Harpootlian over the Department of Commerce’s refusal…

Thousands of state employees in the $100K-plus club

October 25, 2019 The Nerve

By RICK BRUNDRETT In 2018, University of South Carolina head football coach Will Muschamp received…

Throwback Thursday: Rising college tuition tied to increasing higher education debt

October 24, 2019 The Nerve

A recent study covered by The Greenville News revealed that South Carolina has one of…

The $4 billion piggy bank hidden from South Carolinians

October 23, 2019 The Nerve

By RICK BRUNDRETT As state agencies prepare their proposed fiscal 2020-21 budgets, what they likely…

SC handing out incentives to companies that lay off workers, close plants

October 18, 2019 The Nerve

By RICK BRUNDRETT In announcing in April that DHL Supply Chain, a global logistics company,…

Throwback Thursday: Lawmakers eyeing gas-tax-hike dollars for interstates, more debt

October 17, 2019 The Nerve

At Wednesday’s state Senate Finance subcommittee meeting to discuss expanding interstates, Sen. Nikki Setzler, D-Lexington,…

Long legislative tradition of putting ex-colleagues, relatives in high-paying public jobs

October 15, 2019 The Nerve

By RICK BRUNDRETT The possibility that two more ex-lawmakers could join the state Public Service…

Throwback Thursday: Commerce’s long history of incentives secrecy

October 10, 2019 The Nerve

This week, state Sen. Dick Harpootlian filed a lawsuit against the S.C. Department of Commerce…

Millions in S.C. tax dollars shelled out for second ‘phantom’ interstate

October 9, 2019 The Nerve

By RICK BRUNDRETT Interstate 73 isn’t the only nonexistent South Carolina highway that has been…

Gov. McMaster using federal lobbyists to help get I-73 funding, records show

October 4, 2019 The Nerve

By RICK BRUNDRETT A lobbying firm hired by Gov. Henry McMaster at $15,000 a month…

Throwback Thursday: Performance reviews for the Public Service Commission

October 3, 2019 The Nerve

Next Tuesday, the legislatively controlled Public Utilities Review Committee (PURC) will perform the annual performance…

Filling one crack at a time: key part of DOT’s plan to ‘fix’ SC’s bad roads

October 2, 2019 The Nerve

By RICK BRUNDRETT Although state transportation officials claim they are making serious progress in fixing…