Hero. Legend. Superstar.
Two great American pastimes, baseball and politics, are immersed in upheaval over the same basic problem: cheating. Too many people have convinced themselves that it’s acceptable to go all-out to win without regard to rules or laws. The key year when America’s value system turned south was 2017.
Celebrate good times, come on!
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Hero. Legend. Superstar.
Two great American pastimes, baseball and politics, are immersed in upheaval over the same basic problem: cheating. Too many people have convinced themselves that it’s acceptable to go all-out to win without regard to rules or laws. The key year when America’s value system turned south was 2017.
First, separate the wheat from the chaff.
Note: This column, first published in 2010, has been slightly edited by the author.
Celebrate good times, come on!
South Carolina owns about 1,300 elementary, middle and high schools, which educate 750,000 children — some quite well, others horribly.
If all you think you read in the IJ is bad news, you must be skipping a number of our stories.
Another busy election year is upon us and below is some helpful information as we head into November’s General Election along the way.
Flip over that coffee cup at your desk or on your breakfast table. Where was it made? Heck, you could look at so many objects in your home, your office — just about anywhere, really — and see the words “Made in China” stamped on them.
On behalf of Caring Community Nurses of Greenwood, we thank the Greenwood County Library for hosting the first caring community event, our nurses, doctors and ministers and especially Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, our vendors and those who donated items and volunteered their time.
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Remember the name: Helen Harrison. She was a special influence on people she met on that lonesome road less traveled, one she chose.
The impeachment of an American president is a tragedy, one that should not be made worse by a sham trial in the Senate. Americans of all parties need a complete and fair vetting of whether President Donald Trump abused his power, by pressuring Ukraine to produce political dirt on a rival, an…
Today is a federal and state holiday — a poor word choice, considering the manner of his untimely and tragic death — set aside to honor of Martin Luther King Jr.
A few weeks ago our community lost a leader and many of us lost a true friend, Bubba Fennell.
Olive Garden, the restaurant that so many have been wanting for at least the full 20 years I’ve called Greenwood home, might not be on the horizon, but that’s OK with me.
While it is difficult not to see view the timing as coincidental only, we don’t think that — in South Carolina, at least — public schools are godless havens. True, there have been attempts to have prayer removed entirely from school functions, such as football games, but overall it seems our…
There’s a backlog of untested rape kits in South Carolina because there’s more evidence coming in than authorized labs have the capacity to process.
The new year on the roads has already claimed one life in Orangeburg County. That’s not the beginning we had hoped for after a year that saw traffic deaths here increase while the number killed statewide declined.
Every so often we hear tale of a Lakelands resident having a streak of good luck. Such was the case earlier this week when a Ninety Six woman was watching the national championship matchup between Clemson and LSU.
All 176 aboard a passenger plane were killed by an Iranian anti-aircraft missile last Wednesday, hours after an Iranian retaliatory strike on an Iraqi base occupied by U.S. troops. The circumstances surrounding Iran’s responsibility for this tragedy were hard to deny from the moment it happe…
When you pass from this earth after celebrating your 101st birthday, you aren’t expecting a crowd to attend your funeral. The majority of your peers have gone before you and you most likely outlived a number of family members. Well, Elizabeth Katherine Adams Babb probably looked over the Fir…
It might not be fun, it might not be what so many in South Carolina wanted. But this much is true: There is no shame in making it all the way to the national championship game — win or lose.
I think your idea for the acts of kindness is a great idea. My husband and I have been doing this for many years. I sure hope it catches on and many more people will do the same.
No doubt there was plenty of football talk going on Monday.
America’s Middle East strategy continues to resemble something a backyard quarterback draws up in the dirt.
In what amounts to a pregame press conference, members of the state House and Senate gathered with the media in the Solomon Blatt Building on Thursday to discuss the upcoming session.
The math is easy. With about about $2 billion in new or surplus tax revenues for the state’s coming fiscal year, there’s more than enough money for the General Assembly to do something it should have long done: Make 4-year-old kindergarten available for all of South Carolina’s poor children.
In spring 2017, Gov. Henry McMaster ordered that South Carolina comply with the federal government’s Real ID and begin issuing Real ID driver’s licenses and identification cards that meet the federal standard.
Maybe it’s because we are still coming off the holidays and people are busy taking down Christmas decorations and trees, and getting ready to put up Valentine’s decorations. And trees. Or maybe people have been traveling still and just haven’t had time to catch up on their newspapers.
Some Southerners by birth have a tendency to think ill of our neighbors to the north of the Mason-Dixon line. It could be a sad holdover from the Civil War or just a generalization based on various experiences people have had.
Destruction of Iran’s cultural sites wrong
In Harper Lee’s other book, “Go Set a Watchman,” Jane Louise Finch returns to Macomb after living in New York for some time. She returns expecting to find the Macomb she left. Instead, she learns her father is a member of the White Citizens Council. She confronts her father about his associa…
Tucked inside the $1.4 trillion bipartisan spending deal hammered out in Congress last month is $25 million for the studying the effects of gun violence in the U.S. While it might sound like common sense given America’s gun-violence crisis, it’s actually a breakthrough: the first time in mor…
Have you gotten yourself caught up in the New Year’s resolutions craze?
I continue to enjoy Andy Brack's column in the Index-Journal on Sundays.
Opponents of minimum-wage laws have long argued that companies have only so much money and, if required to pay higher wages, they will employ fewer workers.
On the Viewpoints page, we have on several occasions, especially as this past year came to a close and another began, encouraged people to be less divisive, act kinder.
Pausing to reflect on 2019 only days into the new year, we realize it was quite an eventful year for us at the Index-Journal.
Looking back at the past decade, it’s pretty easy to see what the S.C. General Assembly didn’t do – fix education, fix the tax structure, fix health care and on and on.
At Thanksgiving, we wrote of the tradition of hunting and fishing that is integral to the season. Sadly, the holiday produced a tragedy, with a local young person losing his life in a hunting accident.
Holidays bring mixed results
Pete, others want to fix the unbroken
My father was a kind and gentle man. He was an accomplished musician. He received a Purple Heart for his service during World War II. He was exceedingly generous.
Congratulations and a big thumbs up to Kaitlyn and Dylan Alexander, the proud parents of the first baby born in 2020 in Greenwood. The couple welcomed Luciana Iris just after 6 a.m. on Jan. 1.
Our country is pretty much divided up into two very different political camps. The divide is so deep that one camp has been determined to remove a sitting president from his duly-elected office ever since he was elected.
Shortly before Christmas, President Donald Trump signed massive budget bills that prevented a government shutdown — and also lumped in some expensive new programs. That includes paid parental leave for all federal workers, the first time that benefit has been included.
Let us all hope and pray that as 2019 came to an end, the headline makers are not representative of the things to come.
When’s the last time you picked up the phone when you didn’t recognize the caller?
Athletes taking knee is disrespectful
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