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S.C. House Stands Alone in Shadow of Ethics Secrecy
It’s a dubious distinction, to be sure: Members of the S.C. House are the only state or local elected officials in South Carolina who remain wrapped in a cloak of ethics secrecy as this year’s legislative session begins. Last year, … Continue reading
District 5: Home of the Fallacy of the Irrelevant Argument
Lexington-Richland School District 5 board member Beth Watson takes umbrage when fellow board member Kim Murphy raises concerns over members attending an upcoming conference at Hilton Head. Continue reading
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Welcome To Our Temporary Site
A revamped site for The Nerve is currently under construction. In the meantime you can read our breaking investigative reports on this temporary site. If you need access to a story in our archives, please email us at news@thenerve.org and … Continue reading
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Senate Panel Waters Down Lobbying Ban
The S.C. Senate Finance Committee, chaired by Republican Sen. Hugh Leatherman of Florence and responsible for writing the Senate’s version of the annual state budget, has watered down a House-passed proviso designed to eliminate taxpayer-funded lobbying. Continue reading
Retirement Tab Increases For S.C. Taxpayers
For the entirety of the previous decade a train wreck rolled toward South Carolina’s unemployment insurance system; and as it did, a few voices in the wilderness warned of impending disaster.
Their warnings, however, were ignored – and the train wrecked. Continue reading
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Senate Passes Roll Call Voting Bill
For advocates of roll call voting by members of the General Assembly, it’s been a long time coming.
The S.C. Senate passed a stand-alone roll call voting bill on Thursday. The bill is almost identical to roll call voting legislation the House passed in January, all but ensuring that a law requiring legislators to vote on the record is imminent. Continue reading
Proviso Aims to Quiet Ethics Agency
Gag me with a proviso. One has to wonder whether that thought has crossed the minds of State Ethics Commission administrators regarding a proposal recently approved by a key committee of the S.C. General Assembly. The measure, proviso 82.co, would … Continue reading
Harrell: Repeal Amendment a Priority
S.C. House Speaker Bobby Harrell says that passing the “Repeal Amendment” is one of the priorities of the GOP House Caucus during a Jan. 6 press conference. According to Harrell, the Repeal Amendment would protect state sovereignty against unfunded mandates in that if two-thirds of all state legislatures voted to repeal an overreaching federal law, the law would be struck down. Continue reading
Ports Authority Spends 29K on Panama Trip
At least $29,000 was spent on a three-day trip to Panama last September sponsored by the S.C. State Ports Authority, and that included five state lawmakers on a commission overseeing the authority, according to documents obtained by The Nerve. Continue reading
Controversial Judge Patrick Watts Resigns
An embattled Dorchester County judge has resigned following accusations that he mishandled foreclosure cases, though he isn’t facing any serious ethical charges stemming from the cases. Continue reading
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