By RICK BRUNDRETT Eight private firms hired by the state to evaluate proposals for the…
Gov. Henry McMaster
By RICK BRUNDRETT Since Henry McMaster became governor in 2017, the state’s tourism agency has…
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 Over the past four fiscal years, the state Attorney General’s Office settled…
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 A lobbying firm hired by Gov. Henry McMaster at $15,000 a month…
By RICK BRUNDRETT When in session, S.C. lawmakers routinely introduce legislation dedicating an existing road…
By RICK BRUNDRETT For the first half of this year, North Myrtle Beach agreed…
By RICK BRUNDRETT For many years, S.C. lawmakers have exerted considerable control over local matters…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Gov. Henry McMaster last December quietly hired a large law firm to…
By RICK BRUNDRETT An Upstate legislative delegation might have skirted the state’s open-meetings law last…
By RICK BRUNDRETT When S.C. officials announced in 2015 that Volvo would locate its first…
By RICK BRUNDRETT When it comes to fixing South Carolina’s deteriorating roads and bridges, where…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The taxpayer tab for a global consulting firm hired last year to…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In 2015 and 2016, S.C. lawmakers approved spending a total of nearly…
By RICK BRUNDRETT At the end of the 2014 regular legislative session, lawmakers slipped in…
By RICK BRUNDRETT As S.C. lawmakers head into the final weeks of adopting an approximately…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Since the 2017 collapse of the V.C. Summer nuclear project –…
By RICK BRUNDRETT For at least two years, a few members of an obscure state…
By RICK BRUNDRETT S.C. Senate president pro tempore Hugh Leatherman appeared relaxed and confident before…
By RICK BRUNDRETT If you receive health-related services from certain state agencies, chances are you…
By RICK BRUNDRETT S.C. Senate president pro tempore Hugh Leatherman – arguably the state’s most…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Update: The S.C. House on 10/3/18 voted to continue Gov. Henry McMaster’s…
By RICK BRUNDRETT For 10 years, a proviso tucked away in the state budget has…
By RICK BRUNDRETT On Thursday – the last day of the General Assembly’s regular session…
By RICK BRUNDRETT For years, S.C. officials have repeatedly tried – and failed – to…
By RICK BRUNDRETT During the years-long V.C. Summer nuclear project, a little-known committee including the…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In December 2016, the S.C. Department of Commerce quietly announced it was…
By RICK BRUNDRETT As state-owned utility Santee Cooper was racking up billions in debt –…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Update: According to a written plea agreement dated 1/22/19, John Hardee agreed…
By RICK BRUNDRETT A state transportation commissioner with ties to an advertising company that has…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Time is fast running out for Gov. Henry McMaster to decide whether…
By RICK BRUNDRETT South Carolina’s higher-level judges would receive pay hikes ranging from 20 to…