By RICK BRUNDRETT In South Carolina, state senators largely control the selection of more than…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT The state transportation department plans to spend well more than a third…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Last June, S.C. Department of Transportation commissioner Robert “Robby” Robbins questioned agency…
Update: On 2/6/19, the Legislature in a joint session voted 99-1 to elect former longtime…
By RICK BRUNDRETT South Carolina taxpayers last fiscal year shelled out more than $50,000 to…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Last week, the S.C. Department of Transportation announced it was launching a…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The S.C. Department of Agriculture, which for years has been involved with…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Private citizens could be forced to testify before and turn over their…
By RICK BRUNDRETT A proposal by a longtime S.C. senator would siphon millions from…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The special prosecutor assigned to investigate legislative corruption won’t seek the public…
By RICK BRUNDRETT For at least two years, a few members of an obscure state…
By RICK BRUNDRETT A little-known state law allows eligible judges in South Carolina to receive…
By RICK BRUNDRETT As of the end of October, nearly $361 million in collected gas-tax-hike…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The S.C. Department of Commerce says it didn’t formally offer any taxpayer-backed…
By RICK BRUNDRETT S.C. Department of Transportation chief Christy Hall was in a bragging mood…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In the first 15 months of the gas-tax-hike law, the S.C. Department…
Update: S.C. House Speaker Jay Lucas, R-Darlington, on 12/4/18 informed White that he would be…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In requesting this month’s public release of a state grand jury…
By RICK BRUNDRETT After S.C. income taxpayers can no longer claim tax credits to offset…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The number of higher-paid staffers in the S.C. House and Senate keeps…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Since 2015, state colleges and universities have paid a total of more…
By RICK BRUNDRETT As of Aug. 31, the state of South Carolina was sitting on…
By RICK BRUNDRETT S.C. Senate president pro tempore Hugh Leatherman appeared relaxed and confident before…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Tom Fernandez says he was just trying to make a serious point…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The S.C. Department of Transportation continues to sit on most of the…
By RICK BRUNDRETT S.C. lawmakers have once again delayed filling a $107,822 seat on the…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Since 2015,14 companies that committed to locating or expanding in South Carolina…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In the first year of a controversial law hiking the state’s gasoline…
By RICK BRUNDRETT As S.C. lawmakers plan to push a massive borrowing bill next year,…
By RICK BRUNDRETT If you receive health-related services from certain state agencies, chances are you…
By RICK BRUNDRETT One year after the state law took effect hiking the gasoline…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Element TV, which announced last week it will close its television assembly…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Plenty of buzz surrounded Element Electronics’ announcement five years ago that it…
By RICK BRUNDRETT An incumbent state Public Service Commission member, a past commissioner and an…