What goes up must come down.

Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free — but first we’re going to see if we can trip them up with this difficult new immigration test. The Trump administration is hitting applicants for citizenship with a longer, tougher test that contains hints of cultur…

When Lexington County Sen. Nikki Setzler arrived in the state Senate in January 1977, times were much different than today.

We won’t deny having concerns on the heels of one of the country’s biggest and most traveled holidays, Thanksgiving. Moreover, we have concerns for the Christmas holiday.

Here we are again. It’s Friday, which is the day we roll out the weekly thumbs up, thumbs down list. And it’s not just any ole Friday; it’s Black Friday. And it’s not just Black Friday; it’s Black Friday in a pandemic world.

Sometimes as people gather at the Thanksgiving Day table, they share what seemingly amounts to be cliches. They are thankful for their family, their jobs, their health, their ...

In recent days, the following national security challenges have come into public view: President Donald Trump reportedly sought options for launching a military attack on Iran. Trump is planning to accelerate the drawdown of U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. Islamist terrorists have escal…

When it comes to threats of violence, particularly gun violence, public schools typically have a zero-tolerance policy. That policy can, admittedly, be somewhat extreme, such as when an elementary school student has in his book bag a tiny solid plastic handgun dispensed by a toy vending mach…

With a pandemic still raging, the S.C. Legislature made the wise decision this fall to allow all registered voters to cast absentee ballots in this year’s general election. Lawmakers didn’t set about to conduct an experiment in making voting easier for voters — and over time less expensive f…

While it appears a vaccine could be available for general distribution in South Carolina within a few months, this is no time to relax how any of us deals with the very real presence of the COVID-19 virus.

We don’t know about the rest of you, but we are starting to feel a bit festive. There was a time when we did not even want to hear the word “Christmas” until Thanksgiving was over.

There are any number of places where we do not want to “see” you, but two in particular.

There are winners and there are losers.

“A Negro mother wept in the street Sunday morning in front of a Baptist Church in Birmingham. In her hand she held a shoe, one shoe, from the foot of her dead child. We hold that shoe with her.

South Carolina government should stop encouraging one-size-fits-all voting.

Rather than get into a discussion about whether the general election is long over with respect to the presidency, we’ll just note that for some in the Lakelands the elections are not over.

They are signs of the times. Well, actually they are signs of times gone by, a reminder of Greenwood’s past.

Can we agree on one thing?