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Gas-tax suspension bills running nearly on empty

April 6, 2022 The Nerve

By RICK BRUNDRETT Two S.C. House bills that would temporarily suspend the state gasoline tax…

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Most of $4.6 billion surplus to be spent under lawmakers’ plans

March 9, 2022 The Nerve

By RICK BRUNDRETT If state lawmakers decided to refund taxpayers the expected $4.6 billion surplus…

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Gas-tax-hike surplus swells over past year

March 2, 2022 The Nerve

By RICK BRUNDRETT As South Carolina motorists over the past year have been paying more…

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SC still has hundreds of bad bridges despite gas-tax-hike law

February 4, 2022 The Nerve

By RICK BRUNDRETT Last Friday, President Joe Biden visited Pittsburgh to tout his $1 trillion…

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Records: Boeing, Volvo to benefit from secretive ‘infrastructure’ program

February 1, 2022 The Nerve

By RICK BRUNDRETT The S.C. Department of Commerce wants to spend nearly half of $150…

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Governor secretive about $150M ‘infrastructure’ program

January 14, 2022 The Nerve

By RICK BRUNDRETT Gov. Henry McMaster wants to more than double the state Department of…

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McMaster’s budget priority: Expanding interstates or fixing pothole-riddled roads?

January 12, 2022 The Nerve

By RICK BRUNDRETT In unveiling his fiscal 2022-23 state budget this week, Gov. Henry McMaster…