By RICK BRUNDRETT Whether South Carolina has enough medical supplies to deal with the next…
Year: 2020
By RICK BRUNDRETT Spending more tax dollars on tourism advertising and incentives for manufacturers are…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The S.C. Department of Transportation initially wanted more than $1 million worth…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Despite reduced traffic in South Carolina over the past two months resulting…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Since lawmakers in March approved $45 million in emergency funding for the…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Among the provisions in Gov. Henry McMaster’s emergency orders is one allowing…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In South Carolina, public school boards have broad powers, such as hiring…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Having customers in his Columbia glass art shop posed no public threat,…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Last Tuesday, Gov. Henry McMaster ordered that “non-essential” businesses statewide be closed…
By RICK BRUNDRETT When Columbia city leaders imposed a curfew more than two weeks ago…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Every 10 years, S.C. lawmakers re-exert their authority to draw legislative and…
By RICK BRUNDRETT It was supposed to be a routine trip home. Phyllis Elliott and…
By RICK BRUNDRETT When lawmakers return this week to debate how to pay for the…
By RICK BRUNDRETT A state agency is again predicting that S.C. taxpayers will claim the…
Anyone following the progress and coverage of the state budget this week could easily gain…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In debating next fiscal year’s state budget, House members could decide this…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Buried in the latest $32.3 billion state spending plan for next fiscal…
In a supreme twist of irony, this week lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee voted…
Update: In email responses on 11/19/20 and 11/20/20 after The Nerve submitted a state Freedom…
By RICK BRUNDRETT While House budget writers have designated an extra $100 million next fiscal…
This week, state House and Senate committees considered legislation calling for an Article V convention…
By RICK BRUNDRETT As lawmakers this week consider sale and management proposals involving Santee Cooper,…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Ten S.C. House members who are lawyers are pushing legislation to create…
Lawmakers have been holding committee meetings all week on the S.C. Department of Administration’s report…
By RICK BRUNDRETT From 2007 through 2016, five longtime legislative members of a panel that…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Last year, local municipalities, fire and other special purpose districts, public colleges…
This week, the S.C. Department of Administration released an official report detailing three different options…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The number of S.C. Department of Transportation employees making at least $100,000…
By RICK BRUNDRETT From 2014 through 2018, four sitting S.C. Public Service Commission members collectively…
Yesterday, 17 judges were elected by the Legislature, all of whom were unopposed – at…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Allowing Union County Transportation Committee members to make up to $750 a…
By RICK BRUNDRETT No paving projects were completed between the end of November and December…
This week, the Charleston County Aviation Authority (which oversees the Charleston airport) named a new…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In December 2010, then-Gov. Mark Sanford, along with other state and local…
By RICK BRUNDRETT A legislatively controlled committee violated state law in recent years by not…