by The Standard | Oct 18, 2019 | Rick Bundrett
The possibility that two more ex-lawmakers could join the state Public Service Commission – with six-figure salaries – highlights a longstanding tradition of legislators giving well-paying jobs to their former colleagues, relatives and friends. On Friday, the...
by The Standard | Sep 6, 2019 | Rick Bundrett
State agencies are spending more than $1 million of your tax dollars to pay lobbyists to get their agenda passed against the best interests of taxpayers. For the first half of this year, North Myrtle Beach agreed to pay a total of $120,000 to a lobbying...
by The Standard | Jul 24, 2019 | Rick Bundrett
USC’s Pastides’ pay package increased by nearly 68% in 5 years to nearly $1.15 million As the new University of South Carolina president, Robert Caslen likely will be paid far more than the $650,000 salary that was reported after the school’s board of trustees...
by The Standard | Jul 22, 2019 | Rick Bundrett
Ex-state transportation commissioner John Hardee negotiated $1.57 million in payments since 2014 from government agencies and nonprofits for public service announcements through a billboard-industry trade group, though much of the revenues were not used to produce...
by The Standard | Jul 22, 2019 | Rick Bundrett
More than four years after officials announced that Volvo would locate in South Carolina, the state Department of Commerce won’t reveal the estimated amounts of certain public costs and benefits identified in analyses of the $1.1 billion project. The Nerve reported...
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...
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