The Senate Judiciary Committee has scrubbed its version of an ethics-reform bill of any mention…
Investigative Reports
S.C. Superintendent of Education Mick Zais is the first state constitutional officer and the latest…
By RICK BRUNDRETT A conflict? Naaaaah. In 2011, S.C. Sen. Hugh Leatherman was among a…
Talk about sticker shock for S.C. taxpayers. Over the past 10 years, the General Assembly…
It’s apparently back to the drawing board for supporters of two bills that would regulate…
A Senate panel Tuesday scrapped major parts of a controversial House ethics-reform bill, putting investigations…
Two bills that would create an “angel-investor” law have advanced in the S.C. General Assembly…
More S.C. lawmakers in the past week have responded to the recently launched “Project Conflict…
An advancing S.C. Senate proposal aimed at expanding the state’s full-day, 4-year-old kindergarten program could…
Fresh off their legislative victory in the S.C. House, supporters of the move for South…
In 2007, longtime S.C. Rep. Chip Limehouse co-authored a bill that put himself on the…
After delaying debate several times over the past week, the S.C. House took less than…
Patrick Donlon of Irmo didn’t expect a controversy over a $50,000 state grant that the…
The South Carolina Policy Council – The Nerve’s parent organization – recently launched “Project Conflict…
Greg Foster can do a lot of things most people can’t do. When you’re the…
Thousands of S.C. third-graders potentially could be held back if they can’t read at their…
A controversial S.C. House “ethics-reform” bill criticized for being shrouded in secrecy grew even more…
A taxpayer-supported, nonprofit genetics center in Greenwood that provides patient information about prenatal birth defects…
Citizens would have to register as lobbyists to speak before committees of the General Assembly…
It took a controversy last week over decriminalized ethics violations to underscore the point to…
Country music star Kenny Chesney’s planned concert on May 4 in Columbia apparently was important…
A state House bill would end a longstanding requirement that high school students pass an…
Public officials would no longer face criminal penalties for many state ethics violations under an…
A state House panel Thursday approved an amended government-restructuring bill, though one lawmaker contended it…
The Medical University of South Carolina and College of Charleston together would receive $4 million…
An ethics-reform bill that had been a mystery until a House Judiciary subcommittee meeting Tuesday…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Millions in state contracts, virtually none of it disclosed The state…
Clemson University wants an additional $3 million in state funds for a new energy research…
Ethics-reform bills that would force S.C. lawmakers to change their behavior remain stuck in committees…
Without much deliberation or debate, a House Ways and Means subcommittee on Wednesday approved sending…
The S.C. House Judiciary Committee voted 14-9 along party lines Tuesday to send an amended…
Update: The House Judiciary Committee approved H. 3602, which targets “professional” shoplifters, on Tuesday. South…
Apparently, it takes a village to graduate University of South Carolina students “on time.” The…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In the blink of an eye Thursday on a conference call…
Give S.C. Rep. Robert Williams an “A” for persistence. But if the Darlington Democrat’s track…