General Motors can afford the comparatively rich offer it made to settle the month-long United Auto Workers strike in part because it has a revamped line of highly profitable trucks and SUVs ready to hit showrooms in a few weeks.
Back in August, after back-to-back mass shootings in Texas and Ohio, Florida Senate President Bill Galvano announced a project by senators to better understand the causes of such incidents. One factor Galvano wanted to study was white nationalism, to which Galvano attributed not just mass sh…
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General Motors can afford the comparatively rich offer it made to settle the month-long United Auto Workers strike in part because it has a revamped line of highly profitable trucks and SUVs ready to hit showrooms in a few weeks.
For many Americans, health care outcomes depend on how close you are to the right provider. This is particularly true in rural areas.
Back in August, after back-to-back mass shootings in Texas and Ohio, Florida Senate President Bill Galvano announced a project by senators to better understand the causes of such incidents. One factor Galvano wanted to study was white nationalism, to which Galvano attributed not just mass sh…
It really is all about you.
It’s been two weeks since Tom Steyer came over for supper.
You’ve heard the old saying about blaming it on the weather, well a new survey kind of does that with the problem of burglary.
On CPW, science and tooth decay
Racism and racial exploitation may seem to be the same thing. They are far from it. Racism is real. Racial exploitation is when someone uses any excuse to accuse someone else of racism – even false and oft times manufactured or purported racism. Look around. It’s a blemish on reality.
Several news stories this past week warrant recognition, so we’ll jump right in.
Perhaps you noticed that on Wednesday’s front page, we were able to fit the field of Democrats seeking their party’s nomination for president at the top of the page in such a way that you could distinguish who is who before turning to the page where the story of their debate ran.
Virtually everyone in the northernmost Bahamian islands ravaged by Hurricane Dorian has been displaced. Their homes have been leveled, their businesses wiped out, their roads and other basic infrastructure destroyed.
As a Greenwood resident, a CPW customer and a parent, I am very disturbed at the way the major decision of removing fluoride from the local water system has been handled.
Dark humor amid the darkness
Being born into and raised in the towing and garage business in Ninety Six, I have seen more nonsense from so-called citizens than our family has cared to see.
Facebook wants to pivot to privacy, but there’s a new obstacle in its path: Attorney General William P. Barr.
It has come to my attention that fluoride is no longer added to the Greenwood water supply, the reason given that a test is being conducted with regard to deterioration of the delivery pipes.
So many choose suicide when they seem to have no answer to problems. Young people who are tempted to or commit their life’s end think they have no answer to so many issues. And some older folks with mammoth problems feel they have no reason to go on. Getting back to young adults, we ask why …
There have been a couple of articles recently written trying to update the status of the 2-year-old Capital Project Sales Tax. I feel it is time to take a moment to recap why the CPST was and continues to be so critically important to the current and future success of Greenwood County.
National Newspaper Week came to a close Saturday.
State legislators need to be a little bit like reporters in the days ahead as they consider the fate of Santee Cooper, the state-backed utility that fell into trouble when a project to build new nuclear reactors spectacularly died.
Indulge me, please, in a few observations as we enter the fall season.
It is easy in these times of “fake news” and denigration of the media to forget the importance of your local newspaper. It is National Newspaper Week, so take time to consider what value your local newspaper brings to your community and your life.
A recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention contains the alarming news that maternal deaths associated with pregnancy, childbirth and its aftermath up to one year later have been rising over the past decade in the United States. They are now among the highest in the d…
Freedom of the press, of speech, of religion, of assembly and to petition the government are woven, like stars in the flag, into the fabric of the First Amendment.
Hack Bartley surely would be proud, and rightfully so. We are also proud that his son, Jake, and the Jake Bartley Band are up for Grammy consideration with their album “Brotherhood.”
Once upon a time, having a job at a newspaper meant working in one of the most imposing buildings in town, inhaling the acrid aroma of fresh ink and the dusty breath of cheap newsprint and feeling mini-earthquakes under our feet every time the presses started to roll. For those of us old eno…
Has the process been a drawn-out and frustrating experience? Absolutely.
With just 45 words the founders guaranteed five — no six — basic freedoms, fundamental American rights.
Do you attend school board meetings?
For centuries, citizens have turned to their local news publication for local breaking and investigative news, as well as to learn about hot-button issues in their communities. In the last 15 years, with the rise of digital communications, many readers have changed their preferences to digit…
Every day, we encounter common items that most of us just take for granted — literally. We buy something at the dollar store, the clerk puts it in a plastic bag. We stop for a cold drink on a hot day and reflexively grab a drinking straw.
The power of the press rests in the ability of journalists to hold government accountable, to mobilize public opinion on matters that are important to individuals, communities or the nation, and to provide necessary information of value.
Used to be, conspiracy theories and other fringe ideas were out there on the fringe. You had to go looking for them, and most people didn’t.
Coverage of school and school board activities and decisions? Check.
Seasoned politicos are a bit taken aback by former Vice President Joe Biden’s strong numbers in a new Winthrop Poll in South Carolina, particularly among black Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters.
It’s no good day in the park
Jamal Khashoggi never intended to be a dissident. For many years, he wrote for and edited newspapers in Saudi Arabia, and he served as an aide in Saudi embassies in Washington and London. What prompted him to leave the kingdom, and to begin writing columns for The Post, was the sharp increas…
There is no way to implement a spinning thumb, but if we could we would. So, guess we’ll just have to point it sideways as we have done on occasion.
He was in his own living room. He was eating a bowl of ice cream.
Well, we could all use a distraction from the national news, no? All this talk of impeachment, treason and civil war is enough to make our collective heads spin.
If you take a job that state law says comes without pay, the commission that oversees the Columbia Metropolitan Airport would be a pretty good choice.
Tiny school districts always say merging with their neighbors won’t save any money. Of course, as we’ve explained before, saving money isn’t the main purpose. The main purpose is creating a larger student population, so districts can provide higher-level courses and extra programs like subur…
Thursday’s front-page story raises an opportunity to again address Greenwood County’s capital project sales tax and reinforce a couple of this newspaper’s positions.
South Carolina State University, the people of the 6th Congressional District and South Carolina have lost one of their strongest supporters.
There’s been more drama recently among S.C. Education Television leaders than on Downton Abbey.
Sometimes it’s OK to be in a jam. That is to say, it’s good that testing on jamming cellphone signals at state prison facilities appears to be working, and without causing problems for those not detained behind the walls and fences.
All we are saying is give compromise a chance.
Blast from the pastFormer Vice President Joe Biden, already facing questions about whether he’s too old to be running for president, drove home those concerns during last week’s Democratic debate, when he demonstrated that he is — technologically speaking, at least — stuck in the ‘70s. Or mo…
There are no warnings, but now is no time to let your guard down — especially if you are among those who remember what happened 30 years ago.
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