By RICK BRUNDRETT Since 2017, powerful county legislative delegations have approved a total of more…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT In South Carolina, county legislative delegations – made up of state House…
By RICK BRUNDRETT South Carolina will need almost $43 billion more by 2040 to fix…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Out of this fiscal year’s $32.5 billion state budget, more than a…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The S.C. Department of Transportation since 2016 has awarded 56…
By RICK BRUNDRETT E.&J. Gallo Winery, a multibillion-dollar global corporation, will get at least…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Lawmakers have far more state tax dollars to play with this fiscal…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Since 2017, S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson has hired at least six…
By RICK BRUNDRETT State-owned utility Santee Cooper’s debt load is projected to grow by more…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Santee Cooper’s electric customers are on the hook for billions in debt…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Stuck in a pothole. For the fiscal year that ended June 30,…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Gov. Henry McMaster quietly appointed the owner of a well-known Columbia restaurant…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Last year, S.C. Sen. Kent Williams of Marion County reported receiving a…
By RICK BRUNDRETT What a difference a year can make – especially if you’re a…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The S.C. House and Senate plan to spend millions creating new legislative…
By RICK BRUNDRETT If you want to learn what your county legislative delegation is up…
By RICK BRUNDRETT One day last month, state lawmakers representing Greenville County held separate meetings…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Only three bridge projects have been completed in South Carolina with the…
By RICK BRUNDRETT A legislatively controlled committee has given five-figure pay hikes to a group…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In vetoing 226 budget earmarks totaling $152.5 million, Gov. Henry McMaster last…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Over the last five years, state agencies, including public colleges and a…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Lawmakers on Monday sent a strong message in adopting a state budget…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Of the 12 seats on the board governing state-owned utility Santee Cooper,…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Proceeds from a $600 million settlement with the federal government over plutonium…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The number of potholes that the S.C. Department of Transportation claims it…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The S.C. House this week could pass a revised version of the…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Ex-S.C. House member Nancy Mace, who was elected last year to…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Motorists likely will feel plenty of bumps this Memorial Day weekend as…
BY RICK BRUNDRETT Local governments in South Carolina are expected to collectively receive hundreds of…
BY RICK BRUNDRETT Since 2015, two sitting House members have owed thousands in civil fines…
BY RICK BRUNDRETT S.C. lawmakers routinely approve naming road sections and bridges for living or…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The Senate’s version of the state budget for the upcoming fiscal year…
By RICK BRUNDRETT An attorney who works in a state senator’s law firm is Spartanburg…
By RICK BRUNDRETT No matter who’s in charge, state government in South Carolina just keeps…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Through March, a special fund created with the state gas-tax-hike law had…