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DUMPING MORE MONEY INTO THE SAME SYSTEM WILL YIELD THE SAME RESULTS, MORE EXPENSIVELY On…
Mike Wooten, the S.C. Department of Transportation Commission’s vice chairman, freely admits his Myrtle Beach…
For high-level state Department of Transportation engineers or administrators, it’s apparently not difficult to make…
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Companies that collectively have received more than $47 million from the S.C. Department of Transportation…
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‘IT COSTS TO RIDE’ Three weeks into the South Carolina Policy Council’s project to enable…
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HERE COME THE PROCEDURAL SHENANIGANS With nine legislative days remaining this session, the Senate is…
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A SOLID RÉSUMÉ CAN MEAN A SOLID CONFLICT OF INTEREST, TOO The columnist George Will,…
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DOES ‘I HAVE NO IDEA’ COUNT AS AN ANSWER? Last Tuesday we told you about…
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NEW WEB PAGE ALLOWS CITIZENS TO ASK LAWMAKERS SIMPLE QUESTION On Tuesdays for the last…
CONVENIENTLY, NO ONE’S RESPONSIBLE. WHICH IS JUST THE WAY LAWMAKERS WANT IT. A few days…
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DON’T COUNT ON IT. State lawmakers want to raise the gas tax – badly. Legislative…
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QUIET SELF-GOVERNANCE? STATE REGULATORS CAN’T HAVE THAT. If private citizens are governing themselves well –…
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WHEN LOCAL GOVERNMENTS NEED MONEY, BEING ‘THOUGHTLESS’ CAN COST YOU Late last month, we told…
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REPAIRMEN WHO JUST HAPPEN TO KNOW CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS, ETC., ETC. At The Nerve, we get…
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CRAZY, RIGHT? Last Friday night at a meeting of the Anderson County legislative delegation, freshman…
MESSAGE DU JOUR: ‘INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY’ The phrase “on message” first began to circulate…
The ongoing story of Attorney General Alan Wilson’s grand jury investigation of House Speaker Bobby…
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AREN’T “PUBLIC” THINGS SUPPOSED TO SERVE THE PUBLIC? Why has higher education at allegedly…
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Most parents probably would love it if their children’s school report cards were as good…
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WHEN LAWMAKERS DON’T WANT TO FOLLOW THE LAW, THEY WRITE A PROVISO [Editor’s note: Occasionally,…
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CAMPAIGN FINANCE LAWS MISS THE POINT There’s a line making its way around the internet…
“Yes, but what does that mean for the average person?” That’s the question public policy…
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If you’re an elected official in South Carolina, it’s reasonably likely that you’ve come across…
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Journalists and commentators at the country’s major metropolitan news organizations are forever trying to figure…
Almost five months ago, the South Carolina Policy Council,The Nerve’s parent organization, published a policy analysis explaining what exactly…
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Last week, The Nerve’s Rick Brundrett published a piece about S.C. Senator Luke Rankin’s income. Sen. Rankin, Brundrett…
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When people who hold vastly different political views come together on the same side of…
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South Carolina lawmakers have an interesting way of dealing with laws they don’t feel like…
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Johnnelle Raines was a first-grade teacher for 29 years, and for most of her life…
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In April this year, the South Carolina Policy Council undertook an experiment. The experiment was…
Editor’s Note: The Nerve this week is republishing some of its biggest scoops over its nearly…
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If you want to know who doled out big pay raises last fiscal year to…
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An effort to give South Carolina taxpayers a better sense of whether they get their…
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A state senator is holding up a bill that supporters say would make major changes…