By RICK BRUNDRETT When S.C. officials announced in 2015 that Volvo would locate its first…
Investigative Reports
By RICK BRUNDRETT If you’re wondering why pothole-riddled roads in your community haven’t been fixed…
By RICK BRUNDRETT When it comes to fixing South Carolina’s deteriorating roads and bridges, where…
By RICK BRUNDRETT A newly released police video is raising questions about whether S.C. Sen….
By RICK BRUNDRETT The state transportation department hasn’t replaced one bad bridge with gas-tax-hike revenues…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The taxpayer tab for a global consulting firm hired last year to…
By RICK BRUNDRETT As Santee Cooper was accumulating billions in debt for the failed V.C….
By RICK BRUNDRETT The S.C. Department of Transportation wants to fix the state’s bad roads…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Too soon. Too cold. Too rainy. Too few workers. Since the state…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In 2015 and 2016, S.C. lawmakers approved spending a total of nearly…
By RICK BRUNDRETT At the end of the 2014 regular legislative session, lawmakers slipped in…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Over the last four fiscal years, $1.4 million in tax dollars flowed…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Through March, the S.C. Department of Transportation had completed no road…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In 2006, lawmakers approved spending $700,000 in the fiscal 2007 state budget…
By RICK BRUNDRETT As S.C. lawmakers head into the final weeks of adopting an approximately…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Last fiscal year, the S.C. Department of Transportation estimated it filled more…
Horsing around: How an ex-lawmaker and his sister involved themselves in a veterans’ therapy program
By RICK BRUNDRETT Former S.C. Rep. Mike Pitts pushed for state funding to launch a…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In recent years, state lawmakers annually have earmarked a total of nearly…
By RICK BRUNDRETT S.C. Sen. Kevin Johnson’s wife and daughter work for Clarendon School District…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Less than 4% of the nearly $1 billion in road and bridge…
By RICK BRUNDRETT S.C. lawmakers are funneling millions in tax dollars collectively to economic development…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Another year, another round of state lawmakers supporting legislation that could fatten…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The S.C. House and Senate know how to take care of each…
By RICK BRUNDRETT When it comes to debt, the state of South Carolina is swimming…
By RICK BRUNDRETT S.C. Reps. Bruce Bannister and Dwight Loftis want $5 million in state…
By RICK BRUNDRETT If you ask the S.C. Department of Transportation how many potholes it…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Ex-S.C. Rep. Mike Pitts’ decision this week to drop his quest to…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Over the years, lawmakers have legally made it easy for themselves to…
By RICK BRUNDRETT State Department of Transportation work crews patched about 43,000 potholes statewide from…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In 2016, Senate Finance Committee chairman Hugh Leatherman introduced a bill that…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The S.C. Department of Commerce has paid more than $2.9 million since…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Since the 2017 collapse of the V.C. Summer nuclear project –…
By RICK BRUNDRETT For years, S.C. lawmakers have repeatedly tried through legislation and other means…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In South Carolina, state senators largely control the selection of more than…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The state transportation department plans to spend well more than a third…