This week, legislative leaders called for a special session later this month, ostensibly to address…
Year: 2019
By RICK BRUNDRETT As Santee Cooper was accumulating billions in debt for the failed V.C….
By RICK BRUNDRETT The S.C. Department of Transportation wants to fix the state’s bad roads…
The S.C. Senate’s verdict on the best way to sell Santee Cooper could be summed…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Too soon. Too cold. Too rainy. Too few workers. Since the state…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In 2015 and 2016, S.C. lawmakers approved spending a total of nearly…
Last week, the Senate skipped a legally required roll-call vote for one of the most…
By RICK BRUNDRETT At the end of the 2014 regular legislative session, lawmakers slipped in…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Over the last four fiscal years, $1.4 million in tax dollars flowed…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Through March, the S.C. Department of Transportation had completed no road…
Remember when we told you last year that lawmakers were pulling $3.7 billion off-budget? Those…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In 2006, lawmakers approved spending $700,000 in the fiscal 2007 state budget…
By RICK BRUNDRETT As S.C. lawmakers head into the final weeks of adopting an approximately…
This week, Sen. Dick Harpootlian called for an audit of the past ten years of…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Last fiscal year, the S.C. Department of Transportation estimated it filled more…
Horsing around: How an ex-lawmaker and his sister involved themselves in a veterans’ therapy program
By RICK BRUNDRETT Former S.C. Rep. Mike Pitts pushed for state funding to launch a…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In recent years, state lawmakers annually have earmarked a total of nearly…
This week, the Department of Commerce released its cost-benefit analysis of the proposed taxpayer-funded incentives…
By RICK BRUNDRETT S.C. Sen. Kevin Johnson’s wife and daughter work for Clarendon School District…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Less than 4% of the nearly $1 billion in road and bridge…
This week, the House passed two bills dealing with Santee Cooper: one that creates a…
By RICK BRUNDRETT S.C. lawmakers are funneling millions in tax dollars collectively to economic development…
A WCSC article published yesterday reported that the Department of Motor Vehicles routinely sells personal…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Another year, another round of state lawmakers supporting legislation that could fatten…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The S.C. House and Senate know how to take care of each…
State lawmakers have borrowed hundreds of millions of dollars to benefit specific companies — which…
By ASHLEY LANDESS Most Nerve readers know that South Carolina’s governor doesn’t control transportation, education,…
By RICK BRUNDRETT When it comes to debt, the state of South Carolina is swimming…
By RICK BRUNDRETT S.C. Reps. Bruce Bannister and Dwight Loftis want $5 million in state…
By RICK BRUNDRETT If you ask the S.C. Department of Transportation how many potholes it…
Lawmakers have now created two separate committees to explore the sale of state-owned utility Santee…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Ex-S.C. Rep. Mike Pitts’ decision this week to drop his quest to…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Over the years, lawmakers have legally made it easy for themselves to…
In the next couple of weeks, the House will “debate” the budget passed last week…
By RICK BRUNDRETT State Department of Transportation work crews patched about 43,000 potholes statewide from…