If you want to put on the black robe in South Carolina, it pays to…
Investigative Reports
Consider this ethical sticky wicket: A state politician hires registered lobbyists as election campaign “consultants.”…
While one profession lays claim to being the world’s oldest, there’s another that’s just as…
Restructuring South Carolina state government will have to wait until next year, say two lawmakers…
There’s no question that state Sen. Nikki Setzler is the proud father of four children….
UPDATE: 6/26/13 – The S.C. House this afternoon voted 108-9 to sustain Gov. Nikki Haley’s…
When it comes to taxpayer-funded payrolls, Eric Bedingfield might have one of the most unusual…
If Gov. Nikki Haley agrees, the S.C. Department of Agriculture could purchase State Farmers Market…
One of the greatest casualties of the Great Recession in the Palmetto State was the…
What Boeing wants, Boeing gets. On Tuesday, what Boeing got was effectively a rubber stamp…
S.C. Sen. Hugh Leatherman, who wields more power than most legislators, apparently is still in…
Jackie Fowler wonders out loud if she will be able to continue offering health insurance…
The S.C. Coordinating Council for Economic Development, which often meets behind closed doors, would have…
By CURT OLSON More on the State House’s ‘funeral cartel’ A Lexington County man who…
Three proponents of a state bill calling for South Carolina to resist, or “nullify,” the…
Amid the uproar over last week’s revelations that the U.S. government has been secretly collecting…
Palmetto State officials just can’t seem to give away taxpayer money fast enough to one…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Incentives council’s ‘public’ meeting closed to the public. The normally secretive…
House and Senate conference committee members who met for the first time Wednesday afternoon on…
With just two days left in the General Assembly’s regular session, one of the state’s…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Over the past six fiscal years, medical businesses with ties to…
The referral of an ethics complaint against Sen. Robert Ford to the S.C. attorney general…
Update: 5/31/13, 11:30 a.m. – Senate President Pro Tempore John Courson, R-Richland and a member of the Senate…
A state bill calling for the elimination of South Carolina’s income tax was discussed Wednesday…
The S.C. Senate’s debate on the 2013-14 budget dragged into a third week Tuesday, and…
More than a month after Gov. Nikki Haley signed a rushed bill into law giving…
A bill that would have placed a full-time school psychologist in every public school in…
Death isn’t cheap these days. Critics say regulations of South Carolina’s funeral industry block competition…
The S.C. Senate is running out of time. During Wednesday’s floor debate on the state…
In the months leading up to reportedly the worst cyber-security failure in U.S. history at…
S.C. Treasurer Curtis Loftis has become the second state constitutional officer to participate in the…
A Charleston-based pharmaceutical company led by S.C. House Speaker Bobby Harrell filed official paperwork with…
The mass killings in December at Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary School has forced lawmakers in…
The S.C. Senate this week refused to reverse its long-held tradition of funneling millions of…
A legislator who also is a volunteer state constable has co-sponsored a bill that would…