By RICK BRUNDRETT Some 37 years after the idea was first proposed, Interstate 73 in…
Year: 2019
Earlier this week, The Nerve reported that the State Transportation Infrastructure Bank board, which includes…
By RICK BRUNDRETT If the S.C. House of Representatives decided to forgo its entire $22.7…
Members of the State Transportation Infrastructure Bank (STIB) board recently discussed their desire to explore…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In January 2016, a driver swerved around a pothole on Bate Harvey…
By RICK BRUNDRETT For the first half of this year, North Myrtle Beach agreed…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The thousands of fans who are expected to attend the Bojangles’ Southern…
The Comptroller General’s Office announced a $350 million surplus when the books were closed this…
By RICK BRUNDRETT When it comes to receiving taxpayer-funded state retirement and health insurance benefits,…
By RICK BRUNDRETT For many years, S.C. lawmakers have exerted considerable control over local matters…
During a State Transportation Infrastructure Bank (STIB) board meeting this week, Sen. Hugh Leatherman directed…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The S.C. Department of Transportation plans to complete about 2,300 miles of…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Gov. Henry McMaster last December quietly hired a large law firm to…
Former S.C. Department of Transportation commissioner John Hardee (son-in-law of state Sen. Hugh Leatherman) has…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In the first two years of the gas-tax-hike law, the state collected…
This week, the Public Service Commission terminated a contract with consultants hired to help set…
By RICK BRUNDRETT A longstanding state law requires counties to fully fund delegation offices for…
At a Joint Bond Review Committee (JBRC) meeting this week, several universities and one tech…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Longtime state Sen. Paul Campbell gets plenty of perks as the Charleston…
By RICK BRUNDRETT On its Facebook page Thursday, the nonprofit South Carolina Alliance to Fix…
This month the Senate Education Committee resumed hearings on its version of the education omnibus…
By RICK BRUNDRETT As the new University of South Carolina president, Robert Caslen likely will…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Update: 8/8/2019 – The S.C. Attorney General’s Office in a letter to…
By RICK BRUNDRETT More than four years after officials announced that Volvo would locate in…
By RICK BRUNDRETT An Upstate legislative delegation might have skirted the state’s open-meetings law last…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The S.C. Senate’s quiet move at the end of last week’s special…
By RICK BRUNDRETT When S.C. officials announced in 2015 that Volvo would locate its first…
At the close of this week’s one-day special session, the Senate confirmed – without warning…
By RICK BRUNDRETT If you’re wondering why pothole-riddled roads in your community haven’t been fixed…
By RICK BRUNDRETT When it comes to fixing South Carolina’s deteriorating roads and bridges, where…
Yesterday the Santee Cooper Advisory Board (comprised of five statewide-elected officers including the governor) met…
By RICK BRUNDRETT A newly released police video is raising questions about whether S.C. Sen….
When lawmakers passed the 12-cent gas tax increase two years ago, they promised that every…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The state transportation department hasn’t replaced one bad bridge with gas-tax-hike revenues…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The taxpayer tab for a global consulting firm hired last year to…