by The Standard | Jul 22, 2019 | Rick Bundrett
An Upstate legislative delegation might have skirted the state’s open-meetings law last year by privately recommending to the governor candidates for a Department of Transportation Commission seat, The Nerve found in a review. In interviews this week, Greenville...
by The Standard | Jul 22, 2019 | Rick Bundrett
When S.C. officials announced in 2015 that Volvo would locate its first U.S. plant in rural Berkeley County, the total incentives offered to the Swedish car maker were pegged at about $200 million. An investigation by The Nerve, however, found more than $250 million...
by The Standard | Jul 22, 2019 | Rick Bundrett
If you’re wondering why pothole-riddled roads in your community haven’t been fixed despite paying more state taxes at the gas pump, you’re probably not alone. In the first 23 months of the gas-tax-hike law, the S.C. Department of Transportation completed just under...
by The Standard | Jul 19, 2019 | Richard Eckstrom
Most of us probably remember learning things in high school that we seldom if ever use as adults – like how to calculate the area of a trapezoid or how to solve a quadratic equation. Yet nearly all of us do, at some point, need to take out a loan, carefully manage our...
by The Standard | Jul 18, 2019 | Michael Reed
Saul Alinsky was a leftist radical who employed communist tactics and ideas into the politcal world in the United States, and wrote books. Among them: Rules for Radicals and Reveille for Radicals. His use of slander, ridicule, intimidation, infiltration into his...