The U.S. Supreme Court must preserve the union and all it was founded to stand for. That means the party in power has an obligation to appoint and confirm justices without delay. Voters elected President Donald Trump and a majority of senators in large part out of concern for the court.
Fall has arrived and schools are back in session. Mostly. Mornings are dark and it’s getting dark earlier as the days grow shorter. There was an extremely long break before school got underway. Remember, the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in students and teachers packing up and taking education …
It was a scene that’s sure to be seen again across our state in the weeks ahead.
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Recovery Month is a national observance held every September to educate that substance use treatment and mental health services can enable those with mental and substance use disorders to live healthy and rewarding lives.
The U.S. Supreme Court must preserve the union and all it was founded to stand for. That means the party in power has an obligation to appoint and confirm justices without delay. Voters elected President Donald Trump and a majority of senators in large part out of concern for the court.
Year in and year out — and Chris Trainor, Scott J. Bryan and a host of others who have come and gone through these journalistic hallways on Phoenix Street — we get the same question: When will we have Halloween this year?
Democracy’s stability hinges
Fall has arrived and schools are back in session. Mostly. Mornings are dark and it’s getting dark earlier as the days grow shorter. There was an extremely long break before school got underway. Remember, the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in students and teachers packing up and taking education …
Letters related to any of the upcoming elections and ballot issues must be received no later than 4 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 14 in order to have them processed and published no later than two weeks prior to Election Day, which is Nov. 3.
Donald Trump is not a Boy Scout. In fact, he represents just about everything scouts are not supposed to be.
President Donald Trump probably has the most abrasive personality of any president in our nation’s history. If he loses the presidential election in November, that will probably be the biggest reason for his defeat.
It was a scene that’s sure to be seen again across our state in the weeks ahead.
Linda Edwards has served more than two decades on the Greenwood City Council. This week, she announced she is stepping down at the end of the month.
Letters related to any of the upcoming elections and ballot issues must be received no later than 4 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 14 in order to have them processed and published no later than two weeks prior to Election Day, which is Nov. 3.
Fall is officially here, although it is South Carolina and we know temperatures can climb and give us the sense that summer hasn’t let go its grasp on the state.
When you’re in charge, you get to pick.”
My wife and I have twice received large post cards paid for by the American Freedom and Opportunity PAC. Both attacked Floyd Nicholson in a distasteful and demeaning manner.
A school teacher who recently wrote to the Index must have been suffering from an acute attack of McCarthyism Syndrome because he seems to see communists everywhere in the Democratic party and its policies.
Could one explain how the County Council granted $85K for small businesses while withholding $10K for marketing and administrative costs?
The comedian Chris Rock is paid to make people laugh. However, many a truth is said in jest. He is right about many things. One of them is the fact that the Democratic Party wasted big money attempting to remove the president from office. Money and time was wasted trying to do the impossible.
One of the country’s most respected intellects left the mortal world Friday when Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died of metastatic pancreatic cancer in the presence of loved ones at her Washington home.
Over the next two years, several hundred acres of land near Early Branch, South Carolina will be transformed into greenhouses for farming. Using recycled rainwater and high-tech climate controls, farming companies will grow tomatoes, leafy greens, berries and other crops safely and sustainab…
Two dozen major fires are raging from Southern California to Washington state at the same time yet another hurricane is bashing the shores of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Fires happen. Hurricanes happen. The worrisome sign for climatologists is the increasing frequency and intensity o…
If you’re like most readers, you already perused the front page and saw the news about our Weekender edition, which debuts Saturday, Oct. 3.
We had planned to thank our readers back in March, but then along came the COVID-19 pandemic and its scuttling of so many events and activities.
It’s gotten so bad in the caldron of American politics that you wonder whether people are itching to argue about the color of the sky.
With fewer people on the roads during the coronavirus pandemic, it seems nearly all states are reporting that those on the roads are speeding more than ever. The result is making deadly highways even deadlier.
I am sure that this scenario has played out in virtually every household at some time or another.
We agree overall with the rule that when things are not broken, there’s no need to fix them. However, there’s generally room for improvement.
Just spitballing here, but were any officials from the South Carolina High School League spending time in the Lakelands and overseeing football team practices? It would seem the right thing to do would be to be transparent about what violations occurred that resulted in SCHSL imposing sancti…
Masks. Distance. Fear. Anxiety. Loneliness. Depression.
The former No. 2 executive at the National Rifle Association has performed a major about-face on gun control, effectively saying in a new book and recent interviews that he disagrees with the conservative group’s most stubborn positions on gun rights.
The American spirit is something special. It has been the fundamental strength of people that have refused to let anything destroy their resilience. Their moral fiber is the foundation of life.
Seems like it’s a good time to be a Bearcat. A Lander Bearcat, that is.
In 1963, Congressman Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. (D-Fla.) introduced to the United States House of Representatives a list of goals the USA Communist Party created, 45 in total. Herlong Jr. was against these ideas.
Americans will need to be encouraged to participate in mass inoculations, not scared away by opportunistic politicians.
If there is one man around Greenwood who can raise a ruckus, and do so with an entrepreneurial flair, it’s Karl Ziegler.
During hurricane season, what if good ole Jim Cantore stood on the Gulf Coast and said, “Don’t worry, folks. Hurricane Guinevere is currently a Cat 5, bearing down on Mississippi, but you know what? It’s just gonna die out, disappear. There’ll be something like a springtime shower by the tim…
America is coarser these days thanks, in part, to the politics of vitriol, greed to make a fast buck and the often self-absorbed bubble of the internet.
One of the craziest things the S.C. Legislature ever did — and yes, we realize that’s a high bar — was eliminating the vision test for driver’s license renewals.
We have become confused about what is right.
Anyone who was in middle school or older on this day in 2001 no doubt knows too well the significance of this day, 9/11, when America was attacked on its own soil.
The COVID-19 pandemic is ravaging the health, social fabric and economies of South Carolina communities. The virus is having a disproportionate effect on communities of color because of the widening racial gap in health and economic disparities. Community Development organizations across Sou…
Well done, Greenwood City Council.
A COVID-19 vaccine will be a huge benefit to mankind, one which I will certainly take advantage of.
Our war on drugs
What a difference a year makes. Or can make.
Let's talk about the war on drugs.
The increasingly Orwellian cancel culture has a hateful law firm determining which charities are worthy of donations. U.S. Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., wants answers.
We have taken a break ourselves today in recognition of Labor Day. We dug up this Our View from last year, but figured it needed a few appropriate revisions this time around before we shared it again. After all, this is not your normal Labor Day.
Vote early, but please don't attempt to vote often. Once should suffice and, despite the occasional human error glitches that land your neighbor's mail in your mailbox and vice versa, chances are darn good that your vote will be counted. Once.
The founders of America’s experiment in democracy rebelled against monarchical rule from England because they wanted to do things their way. They set up a map on how to govern, the U.S. Constitution, that’s become the envy of the world.
The debate over personal identification most often centers around issues of voting and ID theft. But there is another important identification matter facing South Carolinians.
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