TIME TO SHORTEN SESSION. YOU GUYS AREN’T DOING ANYTHING ANYWAY. The South Carolina legislature sits…
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CITIZENS RAISE BIG QUESTOINS From Brian Knack, in Greenville: In the fall of 1994, the…
WHY THE MAD RUSH TO AMEND THE CONSTITUTION? Occasionally those of us who watch the…
A LITTLE NOISE GOES A LONG WAY So you think you cannot possibly make a…
THE ANSWER HAS EVERYTHING TO DO WITH BAD PRIORITIES When lawmakers start playing games with…
Kinziger: Don’t Take the Money! More than $18 million from the federal Department of Housing…
The S.C. House Judiciary Committee took up a highly publicized bill earlier this week. The…
Remind us: Why do we have an independently elected politician with barely any official duties?…
WHAT THEY WON’T SAY AT RIBBON-CUTTING CEREMONIES Toray Industries’ decision to locate in Spartanburg County…
By JAMIE MURGUIA The ‘one topic’ rule depends on how lawmakers define ‘topic.’ In…
WHEN WILL THE HOUSE STOP DEFENDING THE SPEAKER? It’s bad enough that the most powerful…
A month ago, I explained how I other parents are suing the Anderson School District…
WHAT’S S.300 ABOUT, ANYWAY? On Wednesday, the Senate Education Committee advanced a bill touted by…
PUBLIC “SERVICE” INDEED How does South Carolina’s energy market work? In a nutshell, it doesn’t….
WHEN LAWMAKERS DON’T WANT TO FOLLOW THE LAW, THEY WRITE A PROVISO [Editor’s note: Occasionally,…
State-funded higher education institutions – as well as some lawmakers – are upset. What about?…
What do a liberal arts college, a publicly funded medical school and a private law…
CITIZEN REPORTER CONSIDERS COUNTY’S ‘SHADOW GOVERNMENT’ Who really runs county council government? Even though voters…
REFORM ≠ MORE OF THE SAME Throughout this two-year legislative session, Gov. Nikki Haley on more…
CAMPAIGN FINANCE LAWS MISS THE POINT There’s a line making its way around the internet…
I am a sophomore at the University of South Carolina, and recently I was able…
Over a year ago, The Nerve published a story about my discovery of a statute that…
By JAMIE MURGUIA The legislature returned this week, and the Senate got right to work…
South Carolina politicians often seem perplexed as to why the public is suspicious of them….
“Yes, but what does that mean for the average person?” That’s the question public policy…
It’s a sad fact that South Carolina has the fourth largest state highway system in…
In 1984 Governor Dick Riley’s Education Improvement Act was passed, with the promise of better…
Editor’s note: Although The Nerve takes no position on the dispute over Southwood Academy of…
A bill that would permit “constitutional carry” in South Carolina – allowing law-abiding citizens to carry…
Yesterday the South Carolina legislature re-elected Supreme Court Chief Justice Jean Toal to her position…
“Oaths,” “constitutions,” “law,” “ethics,” “education.” All of these words are used in a myriad of…
If you watched the closing minutes of last Thursday’s Senate session you would have thought,…