Our state has long had an issue with color.
The debate about voting and voting laws in the United States is truly more about partisan politics than objective analysis. A common refrain is that every American should have the right to vote and not face obstacles to casting ballot. But the fact is that elections are about winning and los…
Did you happen to notice the haze at the week’s end? Were you one of those who has mild or serious breathing issues and heeded the advice to avoid exposure to the haze?
All opinion
Our state has long had an issue with color.
This letter is to inform those who think the liberal Democrats have any interest in you or your welfare to think again.
I have been waiting on the national news media and the Index-Journal to report on the crisis that is happening on our border and what it is doing to our country.
There is a huge controversy over how many college football teams should be allowed in the playoffs.
Defining a meaningful course for our lives is the challenge of a lifetime. We learn early on some guiding principles and hopefully use those going forward.
The debate about voting and voting laws in the United States is truly more about partisan politics than objective analysis. A common refrain is that every American should have the right to vote and not face obstacles to casting ballot. But the fact is that elections are about winning and los…
Fresh off the festival circuit, we should all be doing happy dances — and not because kids have returned to school.
Public statistics are deeply disturbing.
Did you happen to notice the haze at the week’s end? Were you one of those who has mild or serious breathing issues and heeded the advice to avoid exposure to the haze?
It’s hard to believe 15 years have passed since the publication of a policy book that suggested ways South Carolina’s tax code could be brought into the modern age.
There is plenty of good news worthy of applause, accolades, attaboys — attapersons, if you would prefer — and thumbs pointing skyward.
Ah, yes. Summer is here. Vacation time. Lake time. Pool time. Relax time.
Humans take air in and let it out, or breathe, 25,000 times a day. Breathing is a key input of our health.
Well, here we go again is right.
We would do well to have more Jack Parhams in our midst.
South Carolina ranks in the top 10 in U.S. drunken driving deaths, even though 22 states have more people than we do. A third of the people who die on our highways are killed by drunken drivers. The results are similar by pretty much any measure, a predictable result of the Legislature’s ane…
It’s a -30- after 33 years for Bill Rogers. That’s not quite accurate. The 33 only accounts for the years he’s been at the helm of the South Carolina Press Association.
In the ever-evolving battle between prisons and prisoners over contraband, cellphones have become a focal point. And despite the best efforts of corrections staff, these devices have allowed incarcerated kingpins and drug lords to run illicit businesses, coordinate smuggling operations, even…
Leave history alone
Red states like South Carolina face increasing pressure to fiddle with election laws.
Were you aware that it takes more than 300 people to run the polls in Greenwood County on Election Day during countywide elections?
President Biden and other world leaders are on the brink of an extraordinary agreement that could curb the maddening — and until now, seemingly insoluble — problem of corporate tax evasion. Success would mean hundreds of billions of dollars in new revenue for fixing crumbling infrastructure,…
The thoughts written here are not written to offend. Just as a potter throws his clay, what one would view as authentic might be considered defective by another, and I’m good with that.
President Joe Biden last week signed an executive order calling for regulatory changes to spur competition across the economy as a way of fueling the post-pandemic recovery. But the underlying problem remains that the nation’s antitrust laws are outdated — as illustrated in recent court deci…
Only yesterday when the world was young …
Some calendars read Monday, July 5 “Independence Day observed.” Of course, no one observes Independence Day today in the sense of shooting off fireworks and getting together for backyard cookouts and barbecues and attending parades. We did all that yesterday, on the actual day of the declara…
Stories reveal corruption
Here’s just one very basic rule government officials should probably follow:
With all the hate, drugs and killings in the world now, it makes an older person realize that we really had it good many years ago compared to now. We just did not realize it then.
Apparently my love for the Festival of Discovery and, in particular, the Greenwood Blues Cruise is widely known.
No matter our job, no matter our duties, not one of us is irreplaceable. We might want to think otherwise, but we should and usually do know better.
South Carolina’s governor earns $106,078 a year, making him the 3,248th () highest paid state employee as of April.
Thumbs up or down? Whaddya say, folks?
Everyone remain calm, please.
America has celebrated its 245th birthday. Our nation has much to celebrate but we also have many problems.
In his weekly column published Saturday, Andy Brack urged you to take a break from your long holiday weekend and do a little bit of reading — perhaps even as a family.
When is a case about a pipeline about more than the pipeline? When it produces a 5-4 Supreme Court decision with a surprising mix of conservative and liberal Justices on both sides. Their opinions reflect disagreements from the founding era over the role and power of the federal government.
At first glance, the failures that led to contaminated drinking water in the tiny Clarendon County town of Summerton look like a simple matter of incompetence or dereliction on the part of one company, and an elected official who thumbed his nose at the law and hid whatever role he had in th…
”The entrance to hell is not far from Hodges, S.C.” — Gerald Jackson
Editor’s note — With a few modifications, we once again take today off and republish our annual holiday message.
Today’s column was going to be about earmarks and pork-barrel spending. Or why the governor decided to go against the legislature and veto a bunch of spending that lawmakers wanted. And how when any South Carolina governor picks a battle with the General Assembly, particularly over how it wa…
A rather substantial embarrassing moment, yes, but we think credit should be given where it’s due. And a thumbs up.
A glance at our own website Wednesday led to a stare, which then led to what some might consider a rather prudish reaction.
President Woodrow Wilson can be blamed for many things, from daylight saving time to aggressively removing African Americans from patronage positions in the United States government to screening D.W. Griffith’s “Birth of a Nation” in the White House, but he did not segregate the American arm…
“Let’s be careful out there.”
South Carolina residents will be needing Real ID Act-compliant licenses to fly on airplanes, enter federal buildings or go into military bases. It is only because of the pandemic that the requirement is not in effect now.
South Carolina residents will be needing Real ID Act-compliant licenses to fly on airplanes, enter federal buildings or go into military bases. It is only because of the pandemic that the requirement is not in effect now.
More restaurants, retail will put us on target
The members of the Lexington-Richland 5 school board seem strangely surprised that the public and the press want to know why Superintendent Christina Melton resigned and why a settlement with Melton was reached without a public discussion or public vote.
