By ELISABETH PARKER A look at the State House’s top influencers As of August 17, the…
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By HANNAH HILL ‘This congressman is still in Washington . . . I’ll just stop at…
By DEBBIE WISE If regulating school buses is this complicated, what about education itself? Ready…
By HANNAH HILL Your legislature employs some well-dressed security guards. The South Carolina General Assembly…
By PHILLIP CEASE Want a top-salaried government job at a low-profile agency? Try working at the…
Notes on a sketchy-looking takings bill Two years ago, The Nerve posted a powerful story…
By DEBBIE WISE Outlawing the practice of taking money from citizens for no good reason…
By HANNAH HILL How ‘holdover’ status gives some senators unchecked power over judges Four years ago, The Nerve’s…
Thanks to a high court ruling, government entities can conveniently forget to say what’s on the…
‘We deem this bill to be constitutional,’ says bill about itself If you happen to be…
Our tax code is one great confusing jumble. There’s a reason for that. South Carolina’s…
Be it resolved: Everybody should learn a lot of good things Once in a while,…
You know, the one establishing independent investigation of lawmakers? Neither do we. Two and a…
Report invites us to reconsider whether public money should support ‘the arts’ In 2012, Gov. Nikki…
Gov. Haley signs ‘Workforce Development Council’ into law. Among our least favorite terms in state…
By RON AIKEN One leave of absence, two write-ups the extent of discipline taken Like…
If you pay taxes, you’re buying a lot of lunches for a lot of public…
By RON AIKEN After Nerve story, penny group pays $26K in fines, fees for retroactive business…
By RON AIKEN Of course, since lawmakers wrote the laws, it’s entirely legal. Influence is…
Sometimes you have to pay for the privilege of thinking ahead. Recently we spoke to an…
Disputes over schedules, fees threaten progress of rural arm of program If foul things roll…
Tortured proposal appears out of nowhere, House suddenly A-OK with it Yesterday the General Assembly…
As always, members elected the judges they liked best On Wednesday, a joint session of…
By RON AIKEN Multiple letters over years spelled out problems with agency, executive director Before he…
One tiny exemption seems to cover just about every public document you could ask for. South…
By RON AIKEN Hiott also paid son as campaign manager while enrolled at USC How can an…
By ASHLEY LANDESS Some politicians want to make it a felony to ‘mislead’ them. No…
By RON AIKEN Penny Tax Development Team LLC never got city, county business licenses The Richland…
Roads are being repaired, all right. Just not the right ones. Perhaps owing to The…
By RON AIKEN CAE travel spending second-highest in Southeast, five times that of Charleston A…
By RON AIKEN Property Leatherman owns could benefit from Hwy 51 widening For years now,…
By RON AIKEN We report. They investigate. UPDATE 5/18: A source confirms to The Nerve that…
Wait – is the American republic built on the honor system? Last week, a…
By RON AIKEN University boards starting to look like legislative family reunions. The practice of nepotism…
A year ago, we revealed the state was decreasing the road maintenance fund. Not much has…