In a Sept. 1 letter to ex-S.C. House Speaker Bobby Harrell, House Ethics Committee Chairman…
Investigative Reports
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Below is a list of the 25 highest total payments in 2014 by companies, trade…
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The city of Columbia could receive at least $750,000 in commissions from a Connecticut-based company…
The S.C. Legislature started fiscal 2016 with nearly $30 million in extra general funds – for its…
UPDATE: 8/27/15 – One week after The Nerve first asked the S.C Department of Transportation to explain discrepancies between its…
The State Ethics Commission recently found probable cause that freshman Rep. Greg Duckworth violated state…
While the restructuring of state government under a 2014 law supposedly will make it more…
The city of Columbia will collect tens of thousands of dollars over the next five…
The new state Department of Administration paid about $61,000 for a web-based training program on…
A consensus could be developing that something’s got to give with South Carolina’s higher education…
In recent years, BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina has easily ranked as the top-paid vendor…
Could South Carolina experience its own Solyndra? A state senator openly raised the question last…
A nearly $1.4 billion settlement this year over alleged investor fraud involving the national credit-rating…
Lexington County Council discusses allocating $150,000 for the construction of a road in Chapin to…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Hard to see how ‘accountability’ applies to this lawmaker When Hugh Leatherman was…
A payment by ex-House Speaker Bobby Harrell, after he pleaded guilty in October to misspending…
The S.C. General Assembly’s love of giving itself multimillion-dollar budget hikes is once again in…
For Richland County government, being located in the middle of dysfunction junction has its advantages….
S.C. lawmakers for years have bypassed the normal budget process by quietly slipping in earmarks…
The head of South Carolina’s probation agency says he met with the State Law Enforcement…
A Greenville-based, government watchdog organization is asking the S.C. Supreme Court to declare part of…
When lawmakers claim state funding for higher education has dropped over the years, they typically…
Eight days after pleading guilty to misspending $93,958 from his campaign account, ex-S.C. House Speaker…
Buried near the bottom of Act 114 of 2007 is one sentence that strips the…
BAD ROADS AREN’T JUST A COSTLY NUISANCE … THEY’RE DANGEROUS On the morning of March…
Since 2007, Banks Construction Co. has received a total of more than $76 million from…
On the S.C. General Assembly’s website, Sen. Larry Grooms lists his occupation only as “Businessman.”…
When ex-S.C. House Speaker Bobby Harrell pleaded guilty in October to six counts of using…
Although the total number of S.C. Department of Transportation workers has dropped slightly in recent…
Most folks probably think of the State Transportation Infrastructure Bank as just that – a…
When it comes to road repairs, planning mistakes can lead to big taxpayer bills. Take…
By RICK BRUNDRETT When it comes to Florence County, the State Transportation Infrastructure Bank apparently…