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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Just hours after The Nerve detailed alleged legal threats made against Chapin resident Kim Murphy related to her opposition to Lexington/Richland School District 5 expansion, the mother of three ...
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Monday, July 26, 2010
A Chapin resident says her attempts to force Lexington/Richland School District 5 to revamp its construction plans at an area high school have led to legal threats from others in ...
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Friday, July 23, 2010
The top 10 farm subsidy recipients in South Carolina received nearly $48 million over the past 15 years.
Rogers Brothers Farm of Hartsville was the biggest beneficiary of federal agriculture ...
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Thursday, July 22, 2010
Newberry County Council has approved plans to put a $17.5 million capital project sales tax referendum on the November ballot. If passed, the Newberry County Capital Projects Sales Tax would ...
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Three weeks after passage of a deadline requiring school districts throughout South Carolina to place their check registers online for public review, more than 70 percent have complied. A bill passed ...
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Monday, July 05, 2010
A bill involving a little-known state board, vetoed by Gov. Mark Sanford but overridden by the General Assembly, could further erode the limited power of the state’s executive branch, some ...
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Friday, July 02, 2010
Two of the four South Carolina counties that were without an Internet presence just a few months ago are now on the Web.
Calhoun County and Dillon County both recently ...
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Monday, June 28, 2010
When word got out that Lexington/Richland School District 5 allowed ex-administrator Lee Bollman to retain his six-figure salary even though he’d moved back into teaching, officials deflected criticism by stating ...
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010
The majority of school districts in South Carolina received a grade of D or F for transparency, according to analysis done by Sunshine Review, a pro-transparency group. As a ...
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Monday, June 21, 2010
The S.C. House sustained 51 of Gov. Mark Sanford’s 107 budget vetoes last week, a record for the Sanford administration, which had 88 percent of its budget vetoes overridden during ...
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Friday, June 18, 2010
It took one of South Carolina’s worst budget crunches in modern history, but legislators have finally turned off the unproductive tax-dollar spigot for hydrogen research funding, at least for one ...
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Monday, June 14, 2010
If history offers any indication, expect legislators to override the vast majority of Gov. Mark Sanford’s 107 budget vetoes when they take them up this week. During his first seven ...
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Friday, June 11, 2010
Fresh off securing $2.5 million from local government sources, the S.C. State Museum is now seeking an additional $19 million, most from state funding, to proceed with construction of a ...
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Monday, May 31, 2010
Amid one of the worst economic downturns in South Carolina’s history, the board of state-owned Santee Cooper has authorized raises for the utility’s top five executives, including two substantial increases ...
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010
There were no doubts where Darla Moore stood on the five-year fundraising effort put forth on behalf of the University of South Carolina’s School of Business, which bears her name. ...
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010
How bad is South Carolina’s budget crisis? Let’s let the state’s legislative leaders describe the situation in their own words: Senate President Pro Tempore Glenn McConnell told one newspaper, "The ...
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Friday, May 21, 2010
Eric Roberts had no problem when he learned last week that his 12-year-old daughter would be suspended from Westview Middle School for failing to store her cell phone properly. It ...
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010
City officials in Aiken apparently aren’t quite sure just how much taxpayer money it takes to operate their community of 30,000. At a May 3 Aiken City Council budget ...
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Monday, May 10, 2010
Heading up a state agency isn’t necessarily a ticket to riches in South Carolina. Of the top 20 paid state employees, just two lead state government entities: Lonnie Carter, chief ...
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Friday, May 07, 2010
Less than two years after Lexington-Richland School District 5 secured passage of a contentious $243.7 million bond issue, the district’s board is already talking about another referendum. During an ...
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Wednesday, May 05, 2010
A bill that would create a new state agency to promote economic development in 17 counties in the Lowcountry and Pee Dee was passed Friday by the Senate. Bill S. ...
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Thursday, April 29, 2010
Like a hungry tick on a fat hound, the S.C. Research Authority can’t stop growing. In an expansion frenzy that would make famed financier T. Boone Pickens proud, the state-created economic ...
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Friday, April 23, 2010
The South Carolina Retirement System is among the worst-funded pension plans for teachers in the nation, according to a study released last week by the Manhattan Institute and the Foundation ...
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Friday, April 09, 2010
While South Carolina suffers from its worst economic downturn arguably since the Great Depression, state legislators have decided a problem more than 200 years in the making needs some scarce ...
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010
EngenuitySC has been one of Columbia’s higher-profile economic development organizations and, at the same time, one of its less-transparent. Formed in 2003, EngenuitySC has positioned itself as a key player ...
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010
EngenuitySC, the public-private partnership heavily involved in trying to develop the Midlands’ hydrogen fuel cell industry, pocketed more than $125,000 for its role in marketing the 2009 National Hydrogen Association ...
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Thursday, March 25, 2010
Citing South Carolina’s distressed economic situation, the House recently passed an appropriations bill that, among other things, eliminate assistance to children with autism, people with spine and brain injuries, and ...
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Monday, March 22, 2010
University of South Carolina officials were beaming in late July when they announced that the Moore School of Business had not only met a five-year fundraising goal of $30 million, ...
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
A bill to add three members to the Patriots Point Development Authority board seems, on its face, straightforward enough. But there is more to S. 783 than simple oversight expansion, ...
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Monday, March 15, 2010
A pair of South Carolina county Web sites have been recognized as being among the best in the nation in terms of transparency. Web sites for Anderson County and Aiken ...
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Debate on S.C. House bill H. 4200, which would provide millions in incentives to big-box sporting goods retailers, was adjourned Wednesday until March 23. The bill, believed to be ...
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Monday, March 08, 2010
For more than half a year The Nerve has sought to verify claims by legislative leaders and the South Carolina Hydrogen Fuel Cell Alliance regarding job creation and investment related ...
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Monday, March 08, 2010
Efforts by Gaston residents to make town proceedings more transparent are not going over well with everyone. At the March 2 town council meeting at least one council member voiced ...
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Friday, March 05, 2010
Many teachers move into administration to earn more money. For at least one administrator, though, getting back into teaching has proven no less lucrative. Lee Bollman went from being the ...
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Tuesday, March 02, 2010
South Carolina legislators appear determined to dole out retail tax incentives to private out-of-state companies. This week, lawmakers may take up a pair of bills that would give out potentially ...
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Friday, February 19, 2010
South Carolinians are making their voices heard on a wide array of stimulus projects, from spending hundreds of millions of dollars improving roads and infrastructure throughout the state to building buoys ...
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Thursday, February 18, 2010
Santee Cooper is South Carolina’s largest power producer, generates the power distributed by the state's 20 electric cooperatives and provides water to 137,000 Lowcountry consumers. It also pays a ...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Some South Carolina Public Charter School District institutions, already among the lowest-funded schools in the state, are in danger of having to close their doors unless state legislators agree to ...
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Monday, February 15, 2010
The winter edition of SC Biz magazine is a glowing tribute to Boeing and those who enticed the aerospace giant to build a second 787 assembly line in the South ...
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Friday, February 12, 2010
The State Museum is asking taxpayers to cough up as much as $15.5 million for a proposed expansion that’s been on its wish list for more than a decade. ...
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Friday, February 12, 2010
How bad are things in Gaston? A Web site for the Lexington County community – which is heavily in debt thanks in part to embezzlement by trusted officials – is ...
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Policy Council member Kate Keep addressed the Beaufort County Council regarding the issue of incentives for developer Sembler Co. on Feb. 8, 2010.
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Tuesday, February 09, 2010
BEAUFORT – Beaufort-area residents packed the County Council chambers Monday, with several expressing concern over a proposed $400 million upscale mall being planned by the Sembler Co. While some ...
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Monday, February 08, 2010
Sembler Co. officials will make their case before the Beaufort County Council Monday afternoon as to why they should receive incentives for a proposed $400 million upscale mall. Jeff ...
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Friday, February 05, 2010
Attempting to limit yourself to just 10 reasons to hate the latest New Carolina annual report is like trying to milk a fish. Nevertheless, without further ado we present the following: 10. ...
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Wednesday, February 03, 2010
It would appear Clemson University, the public institution that seemingly can’t say no to expansion, is setting its sights on more growth. The school was recently approved for a $1 ...
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Tuesday, February 02, 2010
BEECH ISLAND – Some 13 years after Congress established the South Carolina National Heritage Corridor – an endeavor that’s soaked up more than $3.5 million in direct taxpayer funds and ...
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Monday, February 01, 2010
Despite increasing budget shortfalls, South Carolina public universities and state agencies continue to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on lobbying. The state's public schools and agencies pay out ...
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Friday, January 29, 2010
While state agencies struggle with across-the-board budget cuts, salaries continue to jump at the S.C. Research Authority. Take SCRA Chief Executive Bill Mahoney, who saw his pay increase ...
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Thursday, January 28, 2010
An estimated 14,000-plus South Carolina college students each lost several hundred dollars in financial aid this semester after the S.C. Tuition Grants Program came up short on funding. The program, ...
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Nearly a year ago, Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer told the public he would fight for greater government transparency. In what he termed an effort to “restore taxpayers’ confidence in ...
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010
By Kevin Dietrich The Nerve At Batesburg Leesville High School, assistant principal Ross Kerry makes do with textbooks of varying quality. “We have some in that aren’t in ...
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010
By Kevin Dietrich The Nerve Stimulus funding, budget vetoes and spending transparency are among an array of state business South Carolina public officials discussed through private email correspondence during ...
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010
By Kevin Dietrich The Nerve Many of South Carolina’s highest-profile state entities do not have a policy in place regarding the retention of electronic mail, meaning essential correspondence regarding ...
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Many South Carolinians may not recognize the name of the man associated with the controversial Okatie Crossings development project, but don’t underestimate his influence – or ability to generate controversy....