By RICK BRUNDRETT Two S.C. House bills that would temporarily suspend the state gasoline tax…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT As South Carolina motorists over the past year have been paying more…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Last Friday, President Joe Biden visited Pittsburgh to tout his $1 trillion…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In unveiling his fiscal 2022-23 state budget this week, Gov. Henry McMaster…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The S.C. Department of Transportation wants approval to spend about $139 million…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Last week, a legislatively controlled committee quietly approved five-figure salary hikes for…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Lawmakers just can’t resist trying to exert more power over another…
By RICK BRUNDRETT As a special legislative panel considers a yet-to-be-revealed road funding proposal, the…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Once again, the state’s chief revenue forecasters have grossly overestimated the popularity…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Major repaving or road reconstruction projects in South Carolina could take on…
By RICK BRUNDRETT South Carolina will need almost $43 billion more by 2040 to fix…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Out of this fiscal year’s $32.5 billion state budget, more than a…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The S.C. Department of Transportation since 2016 has awarded 56…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Only three bridge projects have been completed in South Carolina with the…
By RICK BRUNDRETT A legislatively controlled committee has given five-figure pay hikes to a group…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The number of potholes that the S.C. Department of Transportation claims it…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Motorists likely will feel plenty of bumps this Memorial Day weekend as…
BY RICK BRUNDRETT S.C. lawmakers routinely approve naming road sections and bridges for living or…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Through March, a special fund created with the state gas-tax-hike law had…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Over the past three years, the S.C. Department of Transportation denied a…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Claiming that many lawmakers had little or no notice of a $550…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In its latest annual report, the S.C. Department of Transportation claimed it…
By RICK BRUNDRETT A new Port of Charleston terminal – named after powerful S.C. Sen….
By RICK BRUNDRETT In just one year, the surplus from state gas-tax-hike revenues grew by…
By RICK BRUNDRETT An income tax credit that S.C. lawmakers created in 2017 to offset…
By RICK BRUNDRETT 2020 ended with a first in the 3½ years of the gas-tax-hike…
By RICK BRUNDRETT If one of your New Year’s resolutions is to drive over pothole-free…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Despite lawmakers’ promises more than three years ago that part of the…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In theory, the pace of fixing South Carolina’s pothole-riddled roads should have…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The slow pace of fixing South Carolina’s bad roads and bridges since…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Many politicians and other government officials don’t want to publicly acknowledge the…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Motorists in South Carolina are now paying 8 cents more per gallon…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In the first three years of the gas-tax-hike law, the state collected…
By RICK BRUNDRETT If only the Carolina Panthers could win as easily as it gets…
By RICK BRUNDRETT As residents and tourists hit South Carolina roads this July 4th holiday…