By RICK BRUNDRETT Since lawmakers in March approved $45 million in emergency funding for the…
Investigative Reports
By RICK BRUNDRETT Among the provisions in Gov. Henry McMaster’s emergency orders is one allowing…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In South Carolina, public school boards have broad powers, such as hiring…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Having customers in his Columbia glass art shop posed no public threat,…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Last Tuesday, Gov. Henry McMaster ordered that “non-essential” businesses statewide be closed…
By RICK BRUNDRETT When Columbia city leaders imposed a curfew more than two weeks ago…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Every 10 years, S.C. lawmakers re-exert their authority to draw legislative and…
By RICK BRUNDRETT It was supposed to be a routine trip home. Phyllis Elliott and…
By RICK BRUNDRETT When lawmakers return this week to debate how to pay for the…
By RICK BRUNDRETT A state agency is again predicting that S.C. taxpayers will claim the…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In debating next fiscal year’s state budget, House members could decide this…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Buried in the latest $32.3 billion state spending plan for next fiscal…
Update: In email responses on 11/19/20 and 11/20/20 after The Nerve submitted a state Freedom…
By RICK BRUNDRETT While House budget writers have designated an extra $100 million next fiscal…
By RICK BRUNDRETT As lawmakers this week consider sale and management proposals involving Santee Cooper,…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Ten S.C. House members who are lawyers are pushing legislation to create…
By RICK BRUNDRETT From 2007 through 2016, five longtime legislative members of a panel that…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Last year, local municipalities, fire and other special purpose districts, public colleges…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The number of S.C. Department of Transportation employees making at least $100,000…
By RICK BRUNDRETT From 2014 through 2018, four sitting S.C. Public Service Commission members collectively…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Allowing Union County Transportation Committee members to make up to $750 a…
By RICK BRUNDRETT No paving projects were completed between the end of November and December…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In December 2010, then-Gov. Mark Sanford, along with other state and local…
By RICK BRUNDRETT A legislatively controlled committee violated state law in recent years by not…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Although S.C. lawmakers have been back in session only since last week,…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Eight private firms hired by the state to evaluate proposals for the…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Another year, another convoluted legislative process for selecting six-figure state Public Service…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Although nearly $1 billion has been collected since the state gas-tax-hike law…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Former longtime state House member Chip Limehouse confirmed Monday he is no…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Since Henry McMaster became governor in 2017, the state’s tourism agency has…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Since last year, the permanent workforce in the S.C. House and Senate…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Almost three years ago, the state House Ethics Committee quietly gave written…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Over the last 17 fiscal years, state court officials tasked with policing…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The Carolina Panthers’ planned move of its headquarters and training facilities to…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Last week, the S.C. Department of Transportation announced that it had completed…