It is often encouraging when at the grassroots level more than one candidate arises to seek office and ostensibly enter public service. All too often we have witnessed times when it seemed no one would step up to run for a vacated seat on a school board or council. And, all too often it seem…

Greenwood County Council meets this afternoon. Its agenda has a handful of readings on zoning ordinance proposals, a second reading to establish a fee in lieu of taxes for a yet-to-be-named economic development project and such.

There’s no question that 2020 has given us all blurred vision, not 20/20 vision.

At last, some good news regarding the coronavirus emergency. The lockdown and stay-at-home advisories apparently have inspired people to make healthier life choices.

During the most recent Greenwood County Council meeting, council received a CARES Act funding report from George McKinney, county emergency management coordinator, but before McKinney could speak Chairman Steve Brown publicly lauded McKinney for his service.

Oh, please.

Suppose your doctor, one of the nation’s leading cardiologists, told you that you are at risk of a heart attack and that you need to make some lifestyle changes. You probably wouldn’t say he or she is wrong, is asking for too much, or is a know-it-all whose advice counts for less than some m…

South Carolina has witnessed a tremendous surge in the number of people testing positive for COVID-19, as well as deaths related to the pandemic. As of Monday, the total number of confirmed cases tallied 82,071, with 346 probable cases, and confirmed deaths were reported to be 1,452, with 54…

Joe Biden initially tried to campaign as a centrist. But since capturing the Democratic nomination, he has been eager to accommodate the demands of the far left by rolling out a sweeping list of big-ticket proposals. And the coronavirus and resulting economic devastation have provided him an…

South Carolina has seen a rapid spike in COVID-19 cases and deaths the past couple of weeks, bringing the state ever closer to 80,000 confirmed cases and closer to 1,500 confirmed deaths.

On the South Carolina Supreme Court declining a request by new law school graduates to practice law in the state without taking the bar exam:

Has it been a week already? My how time does fly during these COVID-19 Days, right? One week just rolls right into another and, well, next thing you folks working from home know, you realize you haven’t changed clothes in days and you aren’t exactly sure when you last showered.

As badly as the U.S. has mishandled the pandemic, there’s been one bright spot: Despite historic unemployment, the poverty rate in America hasn’t significantly increased. This happy paradox is mostly due to the $600 that the federal government has been adding to state unemployment benefits e…

Say what?

America has come a long way since the launch of the civil rights movement; yet, there remains a good stretch of the Edmund Pettus Bridge that must be crossed.

Many Americans might not know it, or perhaps just don’t want to think about it, but the nation’s entire nuclear arsenal can be launched by one person — the president — at any time, for any reason (or no reason), with no input from anyone else. The danger of this situation is especially clear…

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In the pivotal 1948 presidential election, then S.C. Gov. Strom Thurmond campaigned against President Harry Truman’s civil rights program.