By RICK BRUNDRETT County legislative delegations are again asserting their power over local school districts….
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By RICK BRUNDRETT New S.C. Senate president Thomas Alexander reported a total of more than…
By RICK BRUNDRETT A legislatively controlled committee that screens judges ruled last week that a…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Lawmakers just can’t resist trying to exert more power over another…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Another year, another round of raises for higher-paid S.C. House and Senate…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The S.C. House and Senate plan to spend millions creating new legislative…
By RICK BRUNDRETT A legislatively controlled committee has given five-figure pay hikes to a group…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In vetoing 226 budget earmarks totaling $152.5 million, Gov. Henry McMaster last…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Lawmakers on Monday sent a strong message in adopting a state budget…
By RICK BRUNDRETT An attorney who works in a state senator’s law firm is Spartanburg…
By RICK BRUNDRETT S.C. senators want to spend nearly $108 million next fiscal year on…
By RICK BRUNDRETT If there’s one power that S.C. senators likely will never relinquish…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In its latest annual report, the S.C. Department of Transportation claimed it…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The powerful S.C. House speaker, who controls half of the appointments on…
By RICK BRUNDRETT With 2021 nearly here, S.C. lawmakers likely won’t be making any New…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Since last December, 15 S.C. Senate staffers, including the chamber’s top administrator,…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Ten S.C. House members who are lawyers are pushing legislation to create…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Since last year, the permanent workforce in the S.C. House and Senate…
By RICK BRUNDRETT As a sitting S.C. Supreme Court justice, George James is first up…
By RICK BRUNDRETT An Upstate legislative delegation might have skirted the state’s open-meetings law last…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The S.C. Senate’s quiet move at the end of last week’s special…
By RICK BRUNDRETT As S.C. lawmakers head into the final weeks of adopting an approximately…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The S.C. House and Senate know how to take care of each…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Ex-S.C. Rep. Mike Pitts’ decision this week to drop his quest to…
By RICK BRUNDRETT South Carolina taxpayers last fiscal year shelled out more than $50,000 to…