By RICK BRUNDRETT When the state is flush with taxpayer money, lawmakers can’t resist the…
Department of Commerce
By RICK BRUNDRETT If state lawmakers decided to refund taxpayers the expected $4.6 billion surplus…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The S.C. Department of Commerce hasn’t committed to any projects with most…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The S.C. Department of Commerce wants to spend nearly half of $150…
By RICK BRUNDRETT S.C. Department of Commerce officials remain tight-lipped about details of a proposed…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The S.C. Department of Commerce wants $100 million more in state funding…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Hugh Weathers, South Carolina’s agriculture commissioner, dubbed the project as the…
By RICK BRUNDRETT When S.C. lawmakers in 2009 first approved massive taxpayer-backed funding for aerospace…
By RICK BRUNDRETT E.&J. Gallo Winery, a multibillion-dollar global corporation, will get at least…
By RICK BRUNDRETT A legislatively controlled committee has given five-figure pay hikes to a group…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Claiming that many lawmakers had little or no notice of a $550…
By RICK BRUNDRETT It’s a railroad that most South Carolinians probably never have heard of….
By RICK BRUNDRETT Since Gov. Henry McMaster in August gave the state Department of Commerce…
By RICK BRUNDRETT When lawmakers return in January for a new legislative session, they likely…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The S.C. Department of Commerce doesn’t employ any medical or infectious disease…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Many politicians and other government officials don’t want to publicly acknowledge the…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The S.C. Department of Commerce started fiscal 2021 with a $103.1 million…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Gov. Henry McMaster has once again granted the S.C. Department of…
By RICK BRUNDRETT If only the Carolina Panthers could win as easily as it gets…
By RICK BRUNDRETT S.C. politicians routinely love to make promises about massive corporate investment and…
By RICK BRUNDRETT All we wanted was the truth. Over the past several decades, South…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Spending more tax dollars on tourism advertising and incentives for manufacturers are…
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…
Update: In email responses on 11/19/20 and 11/20/20 after The Nerve submitted a state Freedom…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In December 2010, then-Gov. Mark Sanford, along with other state and local…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The Carolina Panthers’ planned move of its headquarters and training facilities to…
By RICK BRUNDRETT With $1.8 billion more in projected general funds in the state budget…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In announcing in April that DHL Supply Chain, a global logistics company,…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Interstate 73 isn’t the only nonexistent South Carolina highway that has been…
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 More than four years after officials announced that Volvo would locate in…
By RICK BRUNDRETT When S.C. officials announced in 2015 that Volvo would locate its first…
By RICK BRUNDRETT At the end of the 2014 regular legislative session, lawmakers slipped in…