Mike Wooten, the S.C. Department of Transportation Commission’s vice chairman, freely admits his Myrtle Beach…
Investigative Reports
For high-level state Department of Transportation engineers or administrators, it’s apparently not difficult to make…
Companies that collectively have received more than $47 million from the S.C. Department of Transportation…
Companies that collectively have received more than $47 million from the S.C. Department of Transportation…
B.K. Jones says he was clear about the direction the S.C. Department of Transportation should…
For high-level state Department of Transportation engineers or administrators, it’s apparently not difficult to make…
By RICK BRUNDRETT South Carolina cutting back on road maintenance? Average annual funding for the…
Rep. Derham Cole had high praise for Woodrow “Woody” Willard after he and other state…
On the evening of Feb. 18, the Outdoor Advertising Association of South Carolina and South…
Last fall, S.C. House Majority Leader Bruce Bannister co-sponsored a proposed House rule that would…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Leatherman’s son-in-law gets lucrative contract If you’re driving on a state highway…
In his latest campaign-disclosure report submitted on April 6, Sen. Luke Rankin listed just two…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Virtually everything about them is public, but somehow legislative caucuses aren’t considered…
In her 2014 state-of-the-state speech, Gov. Nikki Haley was clear about requiring politicians to reveal…
In announcing its January 2014 meeting, the legislatively controlled Joint Transportation Review Committee had planned…
If this year’s state budget is bleeding profusely, you wouldn’t know it by looking at…
In February, the S.C. Supreme Court was blunt in quickly rejecting a complaint filed by…
As of the end of December, 12 sitting S.C. House members had paid $100 fines…
Once again, the 170-member General Assembly can’t seem to tighten its own financial belt. Since…
A judge has rejected claims by freshman Rep. Greg Duckworth, R-Horry, that an Horry County…
In November, State Law Enforcement Division agents arrested Joe Edward Butler, then a state Department…
Since fiscal 2013, at least two dozen corporate members of a nonprofit group pushing for…
From 2008 through last year, the S.C. House and Senate Republican and Democratic caucuses collectively…
A House-passed bill allowing South Carolina public agencies to take legal action against citizens who…
By RICK BRUNDRETT S.C. Reps. Murrell Smith and Leon Stavrinakis had more than a…
The S.C. House meets today to begin debating a nearly $24.5 billion proposed state budget…
Taxpayers are on the hook for nearly $2.4 million awarded to a Massachusetts-based firm that…
The leader of a national gun-rights organization says he has serious concerns about S.C. ethics…
Aerospace giant Boeing says it has 7,744 workers in South Carolina, including “full-time and part-time…
UPDATE: 3/4/15 – The S.C. House dropped a provision from an omnibus ethics bill (H….
From 2007 through 2013, a medical supply company in which S.C. Rep. Murrell Smith is…
By the end of fiscal 2009, S.C. State University was running a deficit of nearly…
A global engineering and construction firm that prepared a recent plan projecting more than $70…
A government restructuring law that Gov. Nikki Haley long sought could cost at least $22…
Of the 22 judicial seats that the Legislature is scheduled to fill Wednesday, nine of…