Both Paul and I have always had a love affair — from afar — with cars, mine stemming back to my single digit years on long trips to Florida during family vacations.

It’s official: The Saudis own golf. Tuesday’s bombshell announcement that the PGA Tour will merge with LIV Golf, Saudi Arabia’s multi-billion-dollar image-restoration project, is nothing less than the surrender of a storied American sports tradition to a regime whose human rights abuses are …

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Grassy lawn weeds are one of the most difficult categories for homeowners to manage. They are harder to identify and can be challenging to control. Sedges might look grass-like with their long, narrow leaves, but they belong to a different plant family altogether. A few basic characteristics…

“And by smooth words he will turn to godlessness those who act wickedly toward the covenant, but the people who know their God will display strength and take action.”

We at the Index-Journal are quite familiar with running the long-distance marathon. In 2019 we celebrated our newspaper’s 100th anniversary of serving the Greenwood community with local, state, national and world news. Local, of course, being our primary focus and, honestly, our reason to ex…

Much attention in the culture wars tends to focus on how wacky the far right can be when it comes to embracing wild conspiracy theories and internet misinformation. Think child-abuse kidnapping rings operating out of a Washington pizza parlor. Or the nutty idea that a gun massacre of kids at…

Rounding a curve on Highway 107, I saw water spurting from handsome stonework set in a mountain. Moody Spring, I knew we’d stop.

For the past 40 months, COVID-19 has lurked like the rattlesnake it is, hidden and ready to strike at just the right moment. For 40 months, I avoided that snake by parrying with all of the appropriate protocols to quell its rattlers – wearing masks, washing hands, cleaning surfaces with anti…

At the Master Gardener plant sale earlier this year, one patron had a question about controlling aphids on her roses. After a bit of conversation, we figured out she had something eating the leaves, chewing holes. I explained that she was dealing with another pest entirely, since aphids don’…

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ war on Disney justly blew up in his face as the theme-park giant announced it was scrapping an almost $1 billion planned new corporate campus in Orlando, in part because of DeSantis’ relentless punishment of the company for criticizing his “don’t say gay” policy.