By RICK BRUNDRETT A powerful, legislatively controlled committee is scheduled Thursday to conduct annual reviews…
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By RICK BRUNDRETT A legislatively controlled committee has once again violated a state law requiring…
By RICK BRUNDRETT “Incentive” bonuses totaling more than $5 million were doled out this year…
Update: 11/18/20 – The S.C. Public Service Commission today voted to hold two additional public…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Dominion Energy electric customers in South Carolina are angry. They were promised…
Update: The Legislature on Sept. 23, 2020, elected four newcomers to the S.C. Public Service…
By RICK BRUNDRETT As lawmakers this week consider sale and management proposals involving Santee Cooper,…
By RICK BRUNDRETT From 2007 through 2016, five longtime legislative members of a panel that…
By RICK BRUNDRETT From 2014 through 2018, four sitting S.C. Public Service Commission members collectively…
By RICK BRUNDRETT A legislatively controlled committee violated state law in recent years by not…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Another year, another convoluted legislative process for selecting six-figure state Public Service…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Former longtime state House member Chip Limehouse confirmed Monday he is no…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The possibility that two more ex-lawmakers could join the state Public Service…
By RICK BRUNDRETT As Santee Cooper was accumulating billions in debt for the failed V.C….
By RICK BRUNDRETT When it comes to debt, the state of South Carolina is swimming…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Since the 2017 collapse of the V.C. Summer nuclear project –…
Update: On 2/6/19, the Legislature in a joint session voted 99-1 to elect former longtime…
By RICK BRUNDRETT S.C. lawmakers have once again delayed filling a $107,822 seat on the…
By RICK BRUNDRETT An incumbent state Public Service Commission member, a past commissioner and an…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The legislatively controlled committee that nominates candidates for full-time, six-figure seats on…
By RICK BRUNDRETT On the last day of regular session Thursday, S.C. lawmakers in an…
By RICK BRUNDRETT On Thursday – the last day of the General Assembly’s regular session…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Update: After this story was published this morning, a Senate Judiciary subcommittee…
By RICK BRUNDRETT One of South Carolina’s most powerful lawmakers would gain even more control…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Over the years, the state’s utility watchdog acted more like a lapdog…
By RICK BRUNDRETT The S.C. Public Service Commission members who approved nine rate hikes…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Nearly a decade ago, an influential state legislative committee quietly released a report…
By RICK BRUNDRETT Last summer’s stunning news that South Carolina Electric & Gas and its…