By RICK BRUNDRETT Through March, a special fund created with the state gas-tax-hike law had…
Investigative Reports
By RICK BRUNDRETT S.C. senators want to spend nearly $108 million next fiscal year on…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Over the past three years, the S.C. Department of Transportation denied a…
By RICK BRUNDRETT State lawmakers are continuing to push bills that would increase legislative delegations’…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Unlike panels overseeing other state agencies, the governing boards of the state-created…
By RICK BRUNDRETT If there’s one power that S.C. senators likely will never relinquish…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Claiming that many lawmakers had little or no notice of a $550…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Over the past four years as South Carolina’s governor, Henry McMaster received…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In its latest annual report, the S.C. Department of Transportation claimed it…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Nearly $30 million in tax dollars could flow next fiscal year through…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Like spring flowers, bills showcasing the powers of county legislative delegations are…
By RICK BRUNDRETT When the full S.C. House meets next week to debate the fiscal…
By RICK BRUNDRETT A new Port of Charleston terminal – named after powerful S.C. Sen….
By RICK BRUNDRETT Two years ago, lawmakers created the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, a stand-alone…
By RICK BRUNDRETT If an ethics complaint is filed against a South Carolina judge, in…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In South Carolina, it’s still illegal to challenge someone to a duel…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In just one year, the surplus from state gas-tax-hike revenues grew by…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The S.C. Legislature these days is proving that the cover-up is as…
By RICK BRUNDRETT It’s a railroad that most South Carolinians probably never have heard of….
By RICK BRUNDRETT Longtime state attorney general Alan Wilson could receive bigger retirement paychecks under…
By RICK BRUNDRETT An income tax credit that S.C. lawmakers created in 2017 to offset…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Since Gov. Henry McMaster in August gave the state Department of Commerce…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In another power move by county legislative delegations, a Spartanburg County lawmaker…
By RICK BRUNDRETT For the second time in recent months, the S.C. Judicial Department has…
By RICK BRUNDRETT 2020 ended with a first in the 3½ years of the gas-tax-hike…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Over the last three months of 2020, the November general election wasn’t…
By RICK BRUNDRETT A state House proposal would send an additional $63 million out of…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In touting Gov. Henry McMaster’s proposed fiscal 2022 state budget, his office…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The powerful S.C. House speaker, who controls half of the appointments on…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In announcing recently that 686 nonprofit organizations in South Carolina would receive…
By RICK BRUNDRETT As lawmakers return to Columbia this week to consider big issues such…
By RICK BRUNDRETT If one of your New Year’s resolutions is to drive over pothole-free…
By RICK BRUNDRETT A legislatively controlled committee has once again violated a state law requiring…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Two months ago, The Nerve asked the state-created South Carolina Research Authority…
By RICK BRUNDRETT With 2021 nearly here, S.C. lawmakers likely won’t be making any New…