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By RICK BRUNDRETT As state agencies prepare their proposed fiscal 2020-21 budgets, what they likely…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT In announcing in April that DHL Supply Chain, a global logistics company,…
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At Wednesday’s state Senate Finance subcommittee meeting to discuss expanding interstates, Sen. Nikki Setzler, D-Lexington,…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT The possibility that two more ex-lawmakers could join the state Public Service…
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This week, state Sen. Dick Harpootlian filed a lawsuit against the S.C. Department of Commerce…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT Interstate 73 isn’t the only nonexistent South Carolina highway that has been…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT A lobbying firm hired by Gov. Henry McMaster at $15,000 a month…
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Next Tuesday, the legislatively controlled Public Utilities Review Committee (PURC) will perform the annual performance…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT Although state transportation officials claim they are making serious progress in fixing…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Under a new city of Columbia ordinance, “extreme risk” residents who are…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT When in session, S.C. lawmakers routinely introduce legislation dedicating an existing road…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT With the start of the third year of the state’s gas-tax-hike law,…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT Some 37 years after the idea was first proposed, Interstate 73 in…
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Earlier this week, The Nerve reported that the State Transportation Infrastructure Bank board, which includes…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT If the S.C. House of Representatives decided to forgo its entire $22.7…
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Members of the State Transportation Infrastructure Bank (STIB) board recently discussed their desire to explore…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT In January 2016, a driver swerved around a pothole on Bate Harvey…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT For the first half of this year, North Myrtle Beach agreed…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT The thousands of fans who are expected to attend the Bojangles’ Southern…
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The Comptroller General’s Office announced a $350 million surplus when the books were closed this…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT When it comes to receiving taxpayer-funded state retirement and health insurance benefits,…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT For many years, S.C. lawmakers have exerted considerable control over local matters…
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During a State Transportation Infrastructure Bank (STIB) board meeting this week, Sen. Hugh Leatherman directed…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT The S.C. Department of Transportation plans to complete about 2,300 miles of…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT Gov. Henry McMaster last December quietly hired a large law firm to…
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Former S.C. Department of Transportation commissioner John Hardee (son-in-law of state Sen. Hugh Leatherman) has…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT In the first two years of the gas-tax-hike law, the state collected…
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This week, the Public Service Commission terminated a contract with consultants hired to help set…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT A longstanding state law requires counties to fully fund delegation offices for…
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At a Joint Bond Review Committee (JBRC) meeting this week, several universities and one tech…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT Longtime state Sen. Paul Campbell gets plenty of perks as the Charleston…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT On its Facebook page Thursday, the nonprofit South Carolina Alliance to Fix…
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This month the Senate Education Committee resumed hearings on its version of the education omnibus…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT As the new University of South Carolina president, Robert Caslen likely will…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT Update: 8/8/2019 – The S.C. Attorney General’s Office in a letter to…