TIME TO SAY GOODBYE TO A TERRIBLE IDEA Legislators’ go-to excuse for retaining the power…
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Former House Speaker Bobby Harrell has been forced to resign. But was Harrell the extent…
TAXPAYERS: BEWARE OF SCHOOL BOARD AUTONOMY I was excited to accept an invitation to join,…
COMMITTEE VOTES ARE TOO OFTEN ANONYMOUS Each new session of the Legislature begins with a…
DISCLOSURE FOR CITIZENS, NOT FOR POLS Some state lawmakers still think ethics reform is some…
What’s stopping S.C. lawmakers from reforming the culture of corruption that the State House has…
HINT: THE ANSWER IS ON GERVAIS STREET IN COLUMBIA Let me admit up front that…
ACTIVIST: NO OFFENSE, COLUMBIA, BUT WHY SHOULD WE PAY FOR YOUR BAD DECISIONS? On November…
LET’S BEGIN WHERE THE 1991 ETHICS ACT LEFT OFF The current scandal involving Speaker Bobby…
‘TRUST US,’ SAYS AGENCY The idea that employees of Commerce Department are not investment bankers…
On October 8, The Nerve revealed that Rep. Brian White, the powerful chairman of the House…
TYRANNY IN THE UPSTATE? On October 7, 2014, Oconee County Councilmen Paul Corbeil, Reg Dexter,…
LET’S DO THIS ONE AT A TIME, SHALL WE? A House ethics ad hoc subcommittee…
Sen. Glenn Reese, D-Spartanburg, recently complained that mandatory roll-call voting, which came into effect in…
By DEBBIE NIX WHO IS THIS ‘COMMUNITY FOUNDATION,’ ANYWAY? A few days ago, our organization…
ROLL CALL VOTING MAKES ONE SENATOR FEEL LIKE A DOG AND KEEPS HIM FROM LOBBYISTS….
By most accounts, suspended House Speaker Bobby Harrell ruled the chamber with an iron rod….
CITIZENS 1, AIKEN CITY OFFICIALS 0 Hitchcock Parkway is a five mile stretch of two-lane…
HOUSE MEMBERS ALREADY HAVE THE POWER TO LIMIT THE SPEAKER’S TERMS . . . ALL…
THE NEED TO ‘DO SOMETHING’ MIGHT HAVE UNFORESEEN CONSEQUENCES We all hate people who text…
TOO BAD THE SPEAKER WAS EXEMPT FROM FOIA Most observers – outside the State House,…
Over a year ago, The Nerve and its parent organization, the South Carolina Policy Council,…
IT’S ABOUT MORE THAN PRESIDING OVER THE HOUSE Wednesday’s grand jury indictment of Bobby Harrell…
On September 10, 2014, House Speaker Bobby Harrell was indicted by a Richland County grand…
HEY SOUTH CAROLINA: TAKE IT EASY ON MY TRANSMISSION! Last weekend, I drove up to…
THE LAST WORD PROBABLY WON’T COME FROM THE LEAST RELIABLE SOURCE In the weeks since…
An independent research organization focusing on transportation and infrastructure, TRIP, recently ranked South Carolina’s roads as some…
GET TO WORK, GUYS South Carolina has one of the longest sessions in the nation,…
The Nerve has written extensively about job-creation announcements by Gov. Nikki Haley and state commerce…
IT MAY ANNOY YOU, BUT IT BEATS FISCAL COLLAPSE I’ll admit, when the A.L.S. Ice…
When The Nerve began in 2010, there was no news source exclusively and consistently aimed…
On Saturday, House Speaker Bobby Harrell announced in a closed meeting of the House Republican…
WANT AN EXEMPTION? EXPLAIN WHY. Recently, some citizens of Beaufort County have suggested that another…
A COSTLY SPECIAL SESSION TO CONSIDER TWO INSIGNIFICANT BILLS? I’M NOT BUYING IT. A sense of…