By RICK BRUNDRETT The S.C. Department of Transportation initially wanted more than $1 million worth…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT Despite reduced traffic in South Carolina over the past two months resulting…
By RICK BRUNDRETT It was supposed to be a routine trip home. Phyllis Elliott and…
By RICK BRUNDRETT A state agency is again predicting that S.C. taxpayers will claim the…
By RICK BRUNDRETT While House budget writers have designated an extra $100 million next fiscal…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The number of S.C. Department of Transportation employees making at least $100,000…
By RICK BRUNDRETT No paving projects were completed between the end of November and December…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Although nearly $1 billion has been collected since the state gas-tax-hike law…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The Carolina Panthers’ planned move of its headquarters and training facilities to…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Last week, the S.C. Department of Transportation announced that it had completed…
By RICK BRUNDRETT For the fiscal year that starts next July 1, the state Department…
By RICK BRUNDRETT As state agencies prepare their proposed fiscal 2020-21 budgets, what they likely…
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 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 In January 2016, a driver swerved around a pothole on Bate Harvey…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The S.C. Department of Transportation plans to complete about 2,300 miles of…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In the first two years of the gas-tax-hike law, the state collected…
By RICK BRUNDRETT On its Facebook page Thursday, the nonprofit South Carolina Alliance to Fix…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Update: 8/8/2019 – The S.C. Attorney General’s Office in a letter to…
By RICK BRUNDRETT An Upstate legislative delegation might have skirted the state’s open-meetings law last…
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 The state transportation department hasn’t replaced one bad bridge with gas-tax-hike revenues…
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 Through March, the S.C. Department of Transportation had completed no road…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Last fiscal year, the S.C. Department of Transportation estimated it filled more…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Less than 4% of the nearly $1 billion in road and bridge…
By RICK BRUNDRETT If you ask the S.C. Department of Transportation how many potholes it…
By RICK BRUNDRETT State Department of Transportation work crews patched about 43,000 potholes statewide from…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The state transportation department plans to spend well more than a third…