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By RICK BRUNDRETT More than four years after officials announced that Volvo would locate in…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT An Upstate legislative delegation might have skirted the state’s open-meetings law last…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT The S.C. Senate’s quiet move at the end of last week’s special…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT When S.C. officials announced in 2015 that Volvo would locate its first…
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At the close of this week’s one-day special session, the Senate confirmed – without warning…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT If you’re wondering why pothole-riddled roads in your community haven’t been fixed…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT When it comes to fixing South Carolina’s deteriorating roads and bridges, where…
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Yesterday the Santee Cooper Advisory Board (comprised of five statewide-elected officers including the governor) met…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT A newly released police video is raising questions about whether S.C. Sen….
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When lawmakers passed the 12-cent gas tax increase two years ago, they promised that every…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT The state transportation department hasn’t replaced one bad bridge with gas-tax-hike revenues…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT The taxpayer tab for a global consulting firm hired last year to…
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This week, legislative leaders called for a special session later this month, ostensibly to address…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT As Santee Cooper was accumulating billions in debt for the failed V.C….
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By RICK BRUNDRETT The S.C. Department of Transportation wants to fix the state’s bad roads…
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The S.C. Senate’s verdict on the best way to sell Santee Cooper could be summed…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT Too soon. Too cold. Too rainy. Too few workers. Since the state…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT In 2015 and 2016, S.C. lawmakers approved spending a total of nearly…
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Last week, the Senate skipped a legally required roll-call vote for one of the most…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT At the end of the 2014 regular legislative session, lawmakers slipped in…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT Over the last four fiscal years, $1.4 million in tax dollars flowed…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT Through March, the S.C. Department of Transportation had completed no road…
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Remember when we told you last year that lawmakers were pulling $3.7 billion off-budget? Those…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT In 2006, lawmakers approved spending $700,000 in the fiscal 2007 state budget…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT As S.C. lawmakers head into the final weeks of adopting an approximately…
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This week, Sen. Dick Harpootlian called for an audit of the past ten years of…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT Last fiscal year, the S.C. Department of Transportation estimated it filled more…
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Horsing around: How an ex-lawmaker and his sister involved themselves in a veterans’ therapy program
By RICK BRUNDRETT Former S.C. Rep. Mike Pitts pushed for state funding to launch a…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT In recent years, state lawmakers annually have earmarked a total of nearly…
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This week, the Department of Commerce released its cost-benefit analysis of the proposed taxpayer-funded incentives…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT S.C. Sen. Kevin Johnson’s wife and daughter work for Clarendon School District…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT Less than 4% of the nearly $1 billion in road and bridge…
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This week, the House passed two bills dealing with Santee Cooper: one that creates a…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT S.C. lawmakers are funneling millions in tax dollars collectively to economic development…
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A WCSC article published yesterday reported that the Department of Motor Vehicles routinely sells personal…