By RICK BRUNDRETT Another year, another round of raises for higher-paid S.C. House and Senate…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT The S.C. House this week could pass a revised version of the…
BY RICK BRUNDRETT Since 2015, two sitting House members have owed thousands in civil fines…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The Senate’s version of the state budget for the upcoming fiscal year…
By RICK BRUNDRETT No matter who’s in charge, state government in South Carolina just keeps…
By RICK BRUNDRETT When the full S.C. House meets next week to debate the fiscal…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In touting Gov. Henry McMaster’s proposed fiscal 2022 state budget, his office…
By RICK BRUNDRETT More than 200 S.C. Ports Authority employees received at least $100,000 in…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Since last December, 15 S.C. Senate staffers, including the chamber’s top administrator,…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The S.C. Department of Commerce started fiscal 2021 with a $103.1 million…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Every 10 years, S.C. lawmakers re-exert their authority to draw legislative and…
By RICK BRUNDRETT When lawmakers return this week to debate how to pay for the…
By RICK BRUNDRETT As state agencies prepare their proposed fiscal 2020-21 budgets, what they likely…
By RICK BRUNDRETT If the S.C. House of Representatives decided to forgo its entire $22.7…
By RICK BRUNDRETT For the first half of this year, North Myrtle Beach agreed…
By RICK BRUNDRETT A longstanding state law requires counties to fully fund delegation offices for…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The S.C. Senate’s quiet move at the end of last week’s special…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The taxpayer tab for a global consulting firm hired last year to…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In 2006, lawmakers approved spending $700,000 in the fiscal 2007 state budget…
By RICK BRUNDRETT As S.C. lawmakers head into the final weeks of adopting an approximately…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Another year, another round of state lawmakers supporting legislation that could fatten…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The S.C. House and Senate know how to take care of each…
By RICK BRUNDRETT S.C. Reps. Bruce Bannister and Dwight Loftis want $5 million in state…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Over the years, lawmakers have legally made it easy for themselves to…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In 2016, Senate Finance Committee chairman Hugh Leatherman introduced a bill that…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Since the 2017 collapse of the V.C. Summer nuclear project –…
By RICK BRUNDRETT South Carolina taxpayers last fiscal year shelled out more than $50,000 to…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Private citizens could be forced to testify before and turn over their…
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 The number of higher-paid staffers in the S.C. House and Senate keeps…
By RICK BRUNDRETT As S.C. lawmakers plan to push a massive borrowing bill next year,…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The S.C. Legislature spent more than $70,000 for an outside consulting firm…
By RICK BRUNDRETT At least three S.C. House members – and some of their favorite…
By RICK BRUNDRETT In the S.C. General Assembly, lawmakers can’t seem to resist pushing legislation…