Nerve Citizen Reporter Pushes ‘Citizen Boss Initiative’
Laurens County Citizen Reporter Katrina Fay is urging her fellow citizens to assert their authority as “bosses” through performance reviews of public officials, or “subordinates,” with her Citizen...
View ArticleOut-of-Sight State Panel Rubber Stamps $6 Million in Incentives
An largely in-the-shadows state panel on Thursday approved $6 million in new grants for 12 non-confidential economic development projects.
View ArticleAddressing Ethics, Corruption Focus of Commission Hearing
The 11-member South Carolina Ethics Reform Commission on Tuesday heard testimony from various organizations and agencies about how to address the state's most pressing ethical issues.
View ArticleNo Incentives for Time Warner Cable, Haley Says
Gov. Nikki Haley during a press conference Friday said no incentives were offered to Time Warner Cable for a $24 million improvement project that would add 644 jobs to the company's South Carolina...
View ArticleSenate Budget-Writing Panel Approves Another Tax-Credit Plan to Favor ‘Angel...
One man’s “angel investor” in South Carolina is another man’s businessman of businesswoman gaining favors from state officials who use tax dollars to pick winners and losers in the private sector.
View ArticleSenate Panel Boosts Hollywood Tax Rebates
Despite evidence from studies that reveal subsidies for Hollywood cost taxpayers, a Senate Finance subcommittee approved a bill Wednesday that would increase the percentage of rebates offered to the...
View ArticleS.C. Pushing Recycling Business; Mum on Taxpayer Cost
Officials on Wednesday announced that a new recycling plant is coming to Aiken County, though they were mum on the taxpayer cost of the project.
View ArticleNew State Agency Not Under Governor’s Control
Despite all the talk in the Legislature about giving the governor more control over the executive branch, South Carolina’s newest state agency is largely unaccountable to the Palmetto State’s chief...
View ArticleBig Taxpayer-Funded Gift Offered to Distribution Centers under Senate Bill
Large distribution centers would be eligible for millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded bonds under a state Senate bill quietly introduced last week.
View Article$22 Million-Plus Taxpayer Tab for Ross Stores' Distribution Center
A planned distrbution center in Rock Hill for Ross Stores Inc. will cost taxpayers more than $22 million over the next 15 years, according to state incentives documents obtained by The Nerve.
View ArticleSouth Carolina Fails at Transparency in Incentives Deals, Report Says
When it comes to transparency of taxpayer-backed incentives for business projects, the Palmetto State received an “F” in a recently released study by a national nonprofit consumer group.
View ArticleState Panel Approves Incentives after Quick, Secret Meeting; Amounts Not...
In the blink of an eye Thursday on a conference call behind closed doors in the S.C. Department of Commerce's 16th-floor office, up to $8 million in taxpayer-backed incentives were doled out to some...
View ArticleMUSC, College of Charleston Could Get Millions for Business Incubator,...
The Medical University of South Carolina and College of Charleston together would receive $4 million out of a proposed $6 million in state funding for a business-incubator program that has been kept...
View ArticleAll in the Family: Charleston Lawmaker's Ties to Relative’s Airport-Related...
An investigation by The Nerve found that S.C. Rep. Chip Limehouse, R-Charleston and a member of the Charleston County Aviation Authority, has not publicly revealed airport-related businesses with ties...
View ArticleAngel-Investor Bills Advance in General Assembly Following Release of USC Study
Two bills that would create an “angel-investor” law have advanced in the S.C. General Assembly after the late January release of a study on the difficulty of young, “high-growth” businesses statewide...
View ArticleEco-Devo Groups with Legislative Ties Poised to Get Taxpayer Funding Again
The S.C. House and Senate Finance Committee versions of the fiscal 2014 state budget include $5 million for regional economic-development groups.
View ArticleS.C. Would Spend Millions on Nonprofits in 2013-14 State Budget
The S.C. Senate this week refused to reverse its long-held tradition of funneling millions of tax dollars to nonprofit groups, despite an attempt by one senator to end the practice.
View ArticleGovernor, Commerce Officials Still Silent on Boeing Bond Deal; Lawmaker...
More than a month after Gov. Nikki Haley signed a rushed bill into law giving aerospace giant Boeing Co. a $120 million taxpayer-funded gift, neither she nor state commerce officials have publicly...
View ArticleCoordinating Council Approves Seven ‘Confidential’ Projects After Closed-Door...
The normally secretive S.C. Coordinating Council for Economic Development approved taxpayer-backed incentives Thursday for seven “confidential” projects and moved more than $1.3 million from a dormant...
View ArticleS.C. Officials to Offer Taxpayer-Funded ‘Bridge’ Loan to Cash-Rich Boeing
Palmetto State officials just can’t seem to give away taxpayer money fast enough to one of the nation’s wealthiest corporations.
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