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