Up next on the agenda for Nerve Citizen Reporter Larry Barnett is tackling a procedural…
Investigative Reports
In the most recent legislative session, bills were introduced to tighten conflict-of-interest rules for state…
Nearly two months after state lawmakers quietly slipped in an additional $2.5 million for the…
Editor’s note: This article continues a series of profiles onThe Nerve’s Citizen Reporters. Seneca resident…
It was December 2010. Gov. Nikki Haley had not yet taken office, the 2011-12 legislative…
Some South Carolina county magistrates might be double dipping by serving as local municipal judges…
Richard Davis, founder and president of the Capitol Consultants government relations firm in Columbia, reported…
If state taxpayers want to know what they received for the more than $300,000 spent…
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Editor’s note: Nerve Citizen Reporter Talbert Black and state Sen. Larry Martin, R-Pickens, talk about…
For some lawyers, it pays to be a state legislator. Nearly 30 S.C. attorney-lawmakers or…
S.C. House Speaker Bobby Harrell made a big announcement prior to the 2012 PGA Championship…
As a state panel led by Gov. Nikki Haley wrangled last week over whether to…
Editor’s note: This article continues a series of profiles on The Nerve’s Citizen Reporters. See…
There’s something to be said for reading the S.C. Constitution. In one example, the state’s…
A state lawmaker is calling for a formal audit of an S.C. Department of Agriculture proposal…
If you want to know who doled out big pay raises last fiscal year to…
Editor’s note: This article continues a series of profiles on The Nerve’s Citizen Reporters. See…
If you loathe crowds, you might want to stay away from malls and other large…
Christmas apparently came early this year for higher-paid S.C. House staffers – courtesy of state…
AT&T spent $276,000 trying to influence state government during this year’s legislative session, the largest…
Potentially thousands of South Carolina child-support enforcement cases are on hold because the federal government…
Editor’s note: This article continues a series of profiles on The Nerve’s Citizen Reporters. See…
An S.C. House member was paid more than $12,500 in legislative salary and expense reimbursements…
An effort to give South Carolina taxpayers a better sense of whether they get their…
More than five years ago, the S.C. General Assembly was warned about potential conflicts of…
Since 2007, a total of $85,500 in state tax dollars has been allocated to a…
Editor’s note: This article continues a series of profiles on The Nerve’s Citizen Reporters. See…
More than a dozen state agencies disregarded the intent of state law and collectively spent…
Lt. Gov. Glenn McConnell likely won’t be sweating it as lawmakers today wrap up voting…
South Carolinians who were supposed to benefit from the state’s multimillion-dollar share of a national…
Gov. Nikki Haley apparently doesn’t want an economic development agency that exists only on paper…
Editor’s note: This article continues a series of periodic profiles on The Nerve’s Citizen Reporters….
If South Carolinians want to know who some state legislators are looking out for in…
The South Carolina Manufacturing Extension Partnership, a mostly government-funded nonprofit that acts like a private…