By RICK BRUNDRETT Two months ago, The Nerve asked the state-created South Carolina Research Authority…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT From December 2015 through April of this year, 16 start-up companies funded…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Whether South Carolina has enough medical supplies to deal with the next…
The 2020 budget process officially began this month, with agency budget requests due to the…
By RICK BRUNDRETT For the first half of this year, North Myrtle Beach agreed…
By RICK BRUNDRETT When it comes to receiving taxpayer-funded state retirement and health insurance benefits,…
By RICK BRUNDRETT S.C. lawmakers are funneling millions in tax dollars collectively to economic development…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Over the years, lawmakers have legally made it easy for themselves to…
By RICK BRUNDRETT As state-owned utility Santee Cooper was racking up billions in debt –…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Last summer’s stunning news that South Carolina Electric & Gas and its…
The co-ops’ Mike Couick is angry and hopeful By ROBERT MEYEROWITZ Asked to explain his…
Governments scrap over the taxpayer bone By HANNAH HILL The State published a story two…
Research authority is paying political operative more than 850K By ROBERT MEYEROWITZ The South Carolina…
We’ve got naughty covered The Nerve began the year with a closer look at some…
By RON AIKEN Beach houses, pyramid schemes, mismanagement riddle $80M program As the University of South Carolina…
By RON AIKEN Duplicate systems purchased at enormous cost, reasons doubted BREAKING UPDATE: Multiple sources have confirmed…
‘The solution is staring us in the face’ In a tedious two-and-a-half-hour meeting punctuated by…
Unfortunately, you’ll have to ask your lawmaker. And good luck with that. South Carolina’s Department…
Embroiled in scandal, penny problems began immediately Like any county, parish or borough, Richland County…
By RON AIKEN Murky selection process tainted by nepotism, politics Clifton Parker had had just…
Disgraced councilman, failed Haley appointee plotted $1M scheme With both Richland and Lexington Counties conservatively…
Why did the state-run Ports Authority bestow this honor on the very-much-alive Finance Chairman? Don’t…
IF YOU SEND IT TO GOVERNMENT, GOVERNMENT WILL SPEND IT HOWEVER GOVERNMENT WANTS On Wednesday the…
READERS’ STORIES ABOUT THE FREEDOM TO WORK Last week, the South Carolina Policy Council –…
Could South Carolina experience its own Solyndra? A state senator openly raised the question last…
ABUSE OF THE LAW CODE ISN’T A CRIME, BUT MAYBE IT OUGHT TO BE Two…
From January 2013 through May this year, five state-government lobbyists with the prominent Nelson Mullins…
A BOARD, A DEPARTMENT, A COMMITTEE, TWO SENATORS, AND NO CLARITY A meeting in the…
South Carolina’s Secret Government By Ashley Landess Last week, Nerve editor Rick Brundrett wrote an article about…
Since Jan. 1 of last year, S.C. Research Authority CEO Bill Mahoney has received $108,752…
Socialists in Capitalists’ Clothing By Ashley Landess Perhaps the most dangerous thing a nation can…
A bill that would have placed a full-time school psychologist in every public school in…
A Senate panel Tuesday scrapped major parts of a controversial House ethics-reform bill, putting investigations…
It took a controversy last week over decriminalized ethics violations to underscore the point to…