By RICK BRUNDRETT At least 100 state agencies have filed budget requests for the next…
Investigative Reports
By RICK BRUNDRETT With $1.8 billion more in projected general funds in the state budget…
By RICK BRUNDRETT For the fiscal year that starts next July 1, the state Department…
By RICK BRUNDRETT As a sitting S.C. Supreme Court justice, George James is first up…
By RICK BRUNDRETT During this year’s legislative session, S.C. Sen. Hugh Leatherman spent a total…
By RICK BRUNDRETT As many as 17 S.C. lawmakers traveled to Egypt last month, most…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Over the past four fiscal years, the state Attorney General’s Office settled…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In 2018, University of South Carolina head football coach Will Muschamp received…
By RICK BRUNDRETT As state agencies prepare their proposed fiscal 2020-21 budgets, what they likely…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In announcing in April that DHL Supply Chain, a global logistics company,…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The possibility that two more ex-lawmakers could join the state Public Service…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Interstate 73 isn’t the only nonexistent South Carolina highway that has been…
By RICK BRUNDRETT A lobbying firm hired by Gov. Henry McMaster at $15,000 a month…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Although state transportation officials claim they are making serious progress in fixing…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Under a new city of Columbia ordinance, “extreme risk” residents who are…
By RICK BRUNDRETT When in session, S.C. lawmakers routinely introduce legislation dedicating an existing road…
By RICK BRUNDRETT With the start of the third year of the state’s gas-tax-hike law,…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Some 37 years after the idea was first proposed, Interstate 73 in…
By RICK BRUNDRETT If the S.C. House of Representatives decided to forgo its entire $22.7…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In January 2016, a driver swerved around a pothole on Bate Harvey…
By RICK BRUNDRETT For the first half of this year, North Myrtle Beach agreed…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The thousands of fans who are expected to attend the Bojangles’ Southern…
By RICK BRUNDRETT When it comes to receiving taxpayer-funded state retirement and health insurance benefits,…
By RICK BRUNDRETT For many years, S.C. lawmakers have exerted considerable control over local matters…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The S.C. Department of Transportation plans to complete about 2,300 miles of…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Gov. Henry McMaster last December quietly hired a large law firm to…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In the first two years of the gas-tax-hike law, the state collected…
By RICK BRUNDRETT A longstanding state law requires counties to fully fund delegation offices for…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Longtime state Sen. Paul Campbell gets plenty of perks as the Charleston…
By RICK BRUNDRETT On its Facebook page Thursday, the nonprofit South Carolina Alliance to Fix…
By RICK BRUNDRETT As the new University of South Carolina president, Robert Caslen likely will…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Update: 8/8/2019 – The S.C. Attorney General’s Office in a letter to…
By RICK BRUNDRETT More than four years after officials announced that Volvo would locate in…
By RICK BRUNDRETT An Upstate legislative delegation might have skirted the state’s open-meetings law last…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The S.C. Senate’s quiet move at the end of last week’s special…