Inspector General wants better system In South Carolina state government, annual accountability reports (AARs) no…
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.
Instability at the highest levels of DOT characterizes 2014-15 Sent to the governor’s office just…
By RON AIKEN State’s transportation agency crippled by internal conflicts, allegations of corruption In the…
Why tax cuts and spending cuts are well nigh impossible in GOP-dominated South Carolina Eleven years…
Editor’s Note: The following story is the second in a two-part series on development issues…
Editor’s Note: Today’s story is the first in a two-part series on development issues in…
While one profession lays claim to being the world’s oldest, there’s another that’s just as…
One of the greatest casualties of the Great Recession in the Palmetto State was the…
What Boeing wants, Boeing gets. On Tuesday, what Boeing got was effectively a rubber stamp…
Update: 5/31/13, 11:30 a.m. – Senate President Pro Tempore John Courson, R-Richland and a member of the Senate…
In the months leading up to reportedly the worst cyber-security failure in U.S. history at…
Greg Foster can do a lot of things most people can’t do. When you’re the…
Without much deliberation or debate, a House Ways and Means subcommittee on Wednesday approved sending…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In the blink of an eye Thursday on a conference call…
A state House bill that would prevent the mentally ill from purchasing or possessing guns…
That O.L Thompson and Bobby Harrell are political allies is a no-brainer. The former is…
There’s good news; there’s bad news; and there’s no news at all. Thursday’s meeting of…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Section 11-11-90 of the state code is an inconvenient truth for the…
They’re called “Bobby Bucks,” and they’re the legislative equivalent of Turkish delights. Seemingly impossible to…
Language that would strike an obscure state law currently being ignored by the General Assembly…
Incompetence, apathy and “inappropriate” priorities characterized the South Carolina Department of Revenue’s approach to data…
The ethics reform traveling circus made its final pre-Christmas stop last week before a special…
Standing in front of reporters and flanked by a huddle of agency heads with little…
In 1990, Operation Lost Trust exposed shocking degrees of criminal corruption in South Carolina’s state…
You already may know that South Carolina spends $896 million annually on economic development incentives,…