Since 2003, at least 21 counties and local municipalities in South Carolina collectively have spent…
Investigative Reports
One of the most powerful members of the S.C. General Assembly has traversed the revolving…
Consolidating school districts isn’t as easy as changing logos on letterheads, but supporters say that…
Earlier this year, Senator Hugh Leatherman, in criticizing a bill that would have opened all…
By ERIC WARD A wide-ranging meeting Gov. Nikki Haley organized in June to discuss state…
By RICK BRUNDRETT A lobbying firm run by a cousin of Congressman James Clyburn…
Taking questions from the media following the signing of the tort reform bill during a…
A familiar elephant was in the room when the S.C. Budget and Control Board met…
By Summer Solum Citizen Reporter Tim Winslow, an attorney with the South Carolina Association of…
By ERIC WARD Does South Carolina pay for its top magazine rankings? If the true…
South Carolina businessman Harry Lightsey talks about why passage of the recent tort reform bill…
If South Carolina’s top-paid school superintendents had to justify their salaries based on their districts’…
By Summer Solum Citizen Reporter Tim Winslow, an attorney with the South Carolina Association of…
It’s that back-to-school time of year. Yes, it’s that time, once again, when fresh-faced students…
By KEVIN DIETRICH More than two years after the South Carolina Policy Council first reported…
Will Shrader, a senior vice president with BlueCross and BlueShield of S.C., explains during a…
This time of year, the town of Hilton Head Island and city of Myrtle Beach…
Speaking during the July 21 South Carolina Health Planning Committee, Sen. Mike Rose asks why…
A large South Carolina delegation to the Paris Air Show in June included two mid-level…
S.C. House Speaker Bobby Harrell says the passage of the most recent tort-reform bill is…
Gov. Nikki Haley touts the benefits of a tort reform bill passed by the S.C….
If you want to see two very different pictures of the state budget, you need…
It’s been nearly half a century since the South Carolina lieutenant governor’s seat has been…
In what could be a first, a measure designed to put an end to the…
By Talbert Black Citizen Reporter Lexington County resident Talbert Black addresses the Lexington 1 school…
Few would argue that Hilton Head Island is one of the premier resort getaways in the…
By Kelly Payne Citizen Reporter Gilda Cobb-Hunter describes to a Dutch Fork High class how,…
South Carolinians – regardless of whether you are fans of NASCAR, start your taxpayer engines….
By Kelly Payne Citizen Reporter Gilda Cobb-Hunter describes to a Dutch Fork High class how,…
Elizabeth “Lib” Tickle and the more than 70 people who live on or own land…
Lexington County Council member Debbie Summers tries to justify the process behind economic development deals…
Recently enacted legislation strengthens South Carolina’s ethics law and gives the entity that enforces it,…
Midlands BioFuels is an alternative energy success story, by all accounts. The Winnsboro company produces…
By Talbert Black Citizen Reporter During a recent informal gathering Lexington County Council member Bobby…
The state sales tax exemption granted to Internet retail giant Amazon.com will not result in…