By RON AIKEN One leave of absence, two write-ups the extent of discipline taken Like…
Ron Aiken
Ron Aiken is an award-winning investigative journalist whose worked has appeared in newspapers, magazines and online for the past 15 years. His writing has been recognized by state and national press associations and featured in a book celebrating the best in journalism. He has been the editor of newspapers in South Carolina, Colorado and Wyoming and locally has been a staff writer for The State, Free Times, Columbia Business Monthly and Gamecock Central. He came to The Nerve after a year in television news at WLTX and is married with three children, two dogs and a cat that thinks it’s a dog.
By RON AIKEN Multiple letters over years spelled out problems with agency, executive director Before he…
By RON AIKEN Hiott also paid son as campaign manager while enrolled at USC How can an…
By RON AIKEN Penny Tax Development Team LLC never got city, county business licenses The Richland…
By RON AIKEN CAE travel spending second-highest in Southeast, five times that of Charleston A…
By RON AIKEN Property Leatherman owns could benefit from Hwy 51 widening For years now,…
By RON AIKEN We report. They investigate. UPDATE 5/18: A source confirms to The Nerve that…
By RON AIKEN DOR takes unprecedented measure to jolt troubled Richland County program into compliance…
By RON AIKEN $4.5M obligated for PR work; also: PDT team still billing county for coffee,…
By RON AIKEN Decision compelling candidates and members to submit banking documents sent before filing…
By RON AIKEN Let’s do the numbers. Trying to find out how much executives and…
By RON AIKEN Some State House pols not averse to using government to intimidate opponents, critics…
By RON AIKEN Employee: Executive director paid board members for protection UPDATE: The day after…
By RON AIKEN County, DOR both prepared to take extreme action in adverse scenario If…
By RON AIKEN Thousands of jobs promised, millions spent on research Remember how, back in…
By RON AIKEN Who’s responsible for the ongoing train wreck: County officials … or the…
By RON AIKEN University bought 300K bottles of water for floods, hasn’t donated yet One…
By RON AIKEN Haley could have named successor herself, avoided special election After waiting too…
By RON AIKEN Deal allows USC to finish Innovista project, outsource IT With a rubber-stamped…
By RON AIKEN Lawmakers free to sponsor bills to help their businessess Just as Spring is…
By RON AIKEN Beach houses, pyramid schemes, mismanagement riddle $80M program As the University of South Carolina…
By RON AIKEN Bill allows non-profit to help set, collect business tax fees If H.5109,…
By RON AIKEN Duplicate systems purchased at enormous cost, reasons doubted BREAKING UPDATE: Multiple sources have confirmed…
By RON AIKEN Budgets “inaccurate,” invoices piling up, federal funds jeopardized A new, $34.8 million…
By RON AIKEN Commission already funded better than peers, unimpressed council says Speaking to Richland…
Last year, The Nerve began an at-times contentious conversation with the South Carolina Department of Transportation…
By HANNAH HILL Finding out who is in a legislative delegation is harder than you…
By RON AIKEN So-called public elections rubber stamp single name The Joint Transportation Review Committee…
By RON AIKEN UPDATE: The SCRA today, Feb. 25, announced that CEO Bill Mahoney will…
By RON AIKEN How conflicts of interest stay out of sight in state government…
By ASHLEY LANDESS Shots fired. Fight ensues. This week Sen. Tom Davis provided us with that…
Pearce: “Everyone is shaking their heads” In a motion not submitted in time to make…
Last week, the chairman of the South Carolina Department of Transportation Commission, Mike Wooten, took…