Update: 2/3/15 – In an order released to The Nerve this afternoon, the S.C. Supreme…
Investigative Reports
If Gov. Nikki Haley’s proposal to cut the state’s income tax rate by 2 percentage…
On two dozen occasions since 2013, S.C. Sen. Billy O’Dell spent campaign funds on dues…
A Lexington County woman wants the S.C. Supreme Court to declare the state’s judicial screening…
Since Gov. Nikki Haley took office in 2011, state budget appropriations for a Department of…
S.C. lawmakers – at least those who live close to the State House – are…
At last month’s organizational meeting of the state House Labor, Commerce and Industry Committee, Rep….
For the second time in a little more than a year, the General Assembly this…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In the 2008 and 2012 elections, S.C. Sen. Thomas Alexander faced little…
Some South Carolina dentists and oral surgeons say they are losing thousands of dollars in…
During a Nov. 5 judicial screening hearing, Greenville County Circuit Judge Edward “Ned” Miller testified…
By RICK BRUNDRETT If you ask state Rep. Kit Spires, he’ll tell you his primary…
By RICK BRUNDRETT State law says you can only spend campaign money on expenses related…
The state’s judicial ethics office is investigating a Greenville circuit judge who issued an arrest…
By RICK BRUNDRETT ‘It’s about building relationships,’ says lawmakers about junket funded with campaign cash. No…
Under a little-known bill that quietly became law this year, a division of a new…
For 28 years, Denny Neilson served in the S.C. House, losing her seat in 2012…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Campaign records raise questions about propriety of transactions If Kris Crawford needs…
In a surprise announcement today, S.C. Rep. Kris Crawford, R-Florence, said he is resigning from…
From January 2013 through May this year, five state-government lobbyists with the prominent Nelson Mullins…
Newly installed House Speaker Jay Lucas is expected today to fill seats on standing committees,…
A special S.C. House committee that in late October recommended a rule requiring any citizen…
“If we want people to come up here and tell us how to spend the…
A little-known, proposed national accounting change could shed light on how much public revenue is…
When questioned by a State Law Enforcement Division agent last year, then-House Speaker Bobby Harrell…
As the S.C. House returns next month to debate a proposed rule that critics say…
South Carolina’s two biggest universities are once again asking the Legislature for millions in new…
When it comes to policing itself for ethical violations, the 170-member General Assembly hasn’t shown…
State Ethics Commission Director Herb Hayden violated the S.C. Freedom of Information Act by falsely…
NEW QUESTIONS ARISE OVER ETHICS OF ‘INCENTIVES’ South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s (R) challengers are…
A consulting firm hired by ex-state Department of Social Services Director Lillian Koller when she…
By RICK BRUNDRETT “I report what the law requires.” In March 2011, Pat Smith, director…
Since 2008, state Rep. Brian White, chairman of the S.C. House’s most powerful committee, has…
Over the last three years, state Rep. Bill Sandifer spent nearly $18,000 in campaign funds…
Brenda Bryant says she doesn’t love her 40-year-old daughter any less because her child is…