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To Our Readers: The Nerve is not planning to publish new stories this week and…
Year: 2020
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By RICK BRUNDRETT Two months ago, The Nerve asked the state-created South Carolina Research Authority…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT With 2021 nearly here, S.C. lawmakers likely won’t be making any New…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT When lawmakers return in January for a new legislative session, they likely…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT More than 200 S.C. Ports Authority employees received at least $100,000 in…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT “Incentive” bonuses totaling more than $5 million were doled out this year…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT Despite lawmakers’ promises more than three years ago that part of the…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT Less than three hours after The Nerve revealed Friday that the…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT The S.C. Judicial Department – the third branch of state government –…
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Update: 11/18/20 – The S.C. Public Service Commission today voted to hold two additional public…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT The S.C. Department of Commerce doesn’t employ any medical or infectious disease…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT Dominion Energy electric customers in South Carolina are angry. They were promised…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT Since last December, 15 S.C. Senate staffers, including the chamber’s top administrator,…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT The spread of the coronavirus in South Carolina didn’t stop public agencies’…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT In theory, the pace of fixing South Carolina’s pothole-riddled roads should have…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT At least one thing didn’t change in the S.C. Legislature during the…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT From December 2015 through April of this year, 16 start-up companies funded…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Gov. Henry McMaster plans to spend $20 million in state surplus money…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT In touting a $600 million settlement with the federal government over plutonium…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT Another governing board of a state-created agency is under scrutiny over whether…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT The slow pace of fixing South Carolina’s bad roads and bridges since…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT Last month, the agency in charge of managing the state health plan…
Update: The Legislature on Sept. 23, 2020, elected four newcomers to the S.C. Public Service…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT Many politicians and other government officials don’t want to publicly acknowledge the…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT Motorists in South Carolina are now paying 8 cents more per gallon…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT The S.C. Department of Commerce started fiscal 2021 with a $103.1 million…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT Politicians typically spend campaign funds on things like signs, billboards, TV, radio…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT As University of South Carolina and Clemson University students return to in-person…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT In the first three years of the gas-tax-hike law, the state collected…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT Gov. Henry McMaster has once again granted the S.C. Department of…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT If only the Carolina Panthers could win as easily as it gets…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT Some nonprofit organizations in South Carolina that already receive significant public funding…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT S.C. politicians routinely love to make promises about massive corporate investment and…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT As residents and tourists hit South Carolina roads this July 4th holiday…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT All we wanted was the truth. Over the past several decades, South…