Parades, tree lightings, shopping, parties — yes, it’s a magical time of the year right now as people become immersed in the Christmas and holiday season.
Thumbs up or thumbs down? That is the question.
“Black Friday” sounds dire but is actually a cause for celebration. For most of the year, retail stores are fortunate just to break even. But the beginning of the holiday shopping season finally brings profit margins wide enough to carry them out of the red and into the black.
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Parades, tree lightings, shopping, parties — yes, it’s a magical time of the year right now as people become immersed in the Christmas and holiday season.
Thumbs up or thumbs down? That is the question.
Saying thanks for paying it forward
“Black Friday” sounds dire but is actually a cause for celebration. For most of the year, retail stores are fortunate just to break even. But the beginning of the holiday shopping season finally brings profit margins wide enough to carry them out of the red and into the black.
As we barrel headlong toward Christmas, thoughts of Halloween are likely gone as the candy collected by children. But Da’Moni Simpkins’ tragic Halloween night accident should give us pause to again consider how we go about celebrating the annual kids’ costuming and candy collecting adventure.
Two people are in conflict if they cannot agree on something. Sometimes the source of the conflict is a minor issue, sometimes a major issue. Sometimes the involved parties can have a rational discussion about the conflict, and sometimes they act irrational, being verbally or physically abusive.
The breakdown in global recycling markets and the growing public alarm over plastic waste in the ocean has prompted appropriately consequential action across the globe.
The class-warfare suggestion of some political candidates that the super-wealthy are somehow not entitled to what they’ve made is both ridiculous and dangerous.
The Democratic presidential preference primary is scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 29 (it’s a Leap Year). We do anticipate the polls to be busy, so don’t delay in requesting your absentee ballot and get caught in the last-minute rush.
So, got any New Year’s resolutions?
Remember walking to school? Or riding a bike?
November’s early blast of winter is forecast by some as the harbinger of colder temperatures ahead. With them will come the annual danger from fires caused of people trying to stay warm.
Thumbs up, we say. Thumbs up. To what, you ask?
Yet again we pondered what prophetic thought we could share with readers on this Thanksgiving Day. We looked at what we said in this space last year, the year before that and even before that. Indeed, we were quickly reminded that each year’s message remains the same. We find it resonates th…
A federal judge last week halted the scheduled executions of four federal inmates, thwarting the Trump administration’s plan to resume such executions after a 16-year hiatus. The ruling involves a technical legal issue regarding methods of execution, but it’s an opportune time to revisit the…
The Puerto Rico Statehood Admissions Act would require a vote by Congress.
Chaos describes the confusion our nation is in at this time.
Former and current American officials indicate that the Intelligence Committee had contact with the whistleblower prior to his/her filing the complaint over Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky. The committee does not deny it, but maintains they simply told th…
South Carolina ranks 47th in the nation in providing resources to combat mental illness. That abysmal situation may be starting to change, but we have a long way to go.
Swift and final as impeachment hearings heat up and wild-eyed Adam Schiff becomes more obnoxious and set on convicting President Trump, it becomes clear they do not have a leg to stand on and they know it.
Remember when our lives got all tangled up in this whole interworld thing?
You might already be aware of this, but flip the calendar and take note of the fact that it’s one month until Christmas Eve. That’s right, just a month to go.
The first Thanksgiving in South Carolina probably was in French. Or Spanish.
Clemson and South Carolina football fans don’t have to wait until the Nov. 30 annual rivalry game to be part of an important competition.
We certainly cannot name all who deserve credit, but do want to extend a big thumbs up to those of you who share all sorts of news we publish online and in the weekly Lakelands Connector.
On Veterans Day, Monday, Nov. 11, the Greenwood Republicans hosted “A Salute to the Veterans” at the Greenwood County Veterans Center with U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham as the guest speaker for the evening.
In what might best be construed as a single thumbs-up nomination for Friday’s edition, kudos to Greenwood County School District 50 for partnering with Gaggle.
Much as conservatives blast the news media for a supposed liberal bias, the sting of press scrutiny very often draws liberal ire as well. News coverage is a sword that slices both ways, which is why we now turn our attention to the overly sensitive, politically correct, liberal obsessiveness…
The Knights of Columbus of Father John B. Adair Council 7129 again thank the Greenwood Community for its generosity that helped make our annual Columbus HOPE Foundation Campaign (Tootsie Roll Drive) that we conducted in September, October,and November a huge success for this year.
Those who are worried about carbon emissions from fossil fuels should realize that contributions from U.S. discontinuing their use is puny and overwhelmed by China and India, where hundreds of coal-fired power plants are in use, with hundreds more planned.
I read Sen. Harvey Peelers’ letter the other week about the SC senate passing a bill to keep daylight saving time year round. My question is, was the public asked if they want to do this? I don’t remember seeing or hearing about a survey to see if the public wanted this to happen. Is this ju…
Federal lawmakers should follow the lead of Washington and at least 17 other states in raising the age of legal sale for vapor and tobacco products to age 21.
When a tenth of the members of the S.C. Legislature were indicted on corruption charges in the federal Operation Lost Trust sting, the question was how, not whether, lawmakers would overhaul the state’s anemic ethics law and enact other reforms to reduce the chance that their colleagues woul…
Somehow, contrary to the Constitution, which protects the rights of the individual, everywhere you look nowadays there is someone or some group telling us what and what not to do.
This Thanksgiving holiday will certainly be one for the Humane Society of Greenwood to celebrate. As interim director, I am overjoyed to witness firsthand the 17-plus years of work, done by so many, to be paying off in such a significant way.
Thanksgiving traditions probably don’t come up in conversations nearly as much as Christmas traditions, but I bet most of us have some.
We will all have to wait and see what our lawmakers do when assembled in Columbia to discuss what to do with all that extra money, but for our money, we hope they apply reason and logic.
Our legislature chose, this year, to send each of us taxpayers a check for $50 instead of funding state responsibilities long neglected. True conservatives would put unexpected income to work, paying off debts and obligations, funding needed repair to infrastructure.
More likely than not, the good times won’t keep being good. At some point — and probably sooner than you think — the country will slip into another recession.
A study conducted by TermLife2Go found that South Carolina’s number one mental health concern is stress at work.
Thumbs up to Greenwood for not imploding Monday.
“You’ve got to be a realist. What I did not anticipate is an impeachment.”
Please hold.
Bernie Sanders often points to Europe as his economic model, but there’s one lesson from the Continent that he and Elizabeth Warren want to ignore. Europe has tried and mostly rejected the wealth taxes that the two presidential candidates are now promising for America.
When an older person retires, they might decide later they want to return to the working class, even with a part-time position. However, this is not a good position to be in. We are discriminated against.
Today is Veterans Day, a day on which we pay tribute to and honor those who served in our nation’s armed forces.
I have been following your stories about the calendar change with great interest. I no longer have children in Greenwood County schools, but remember when they inexplicably changed the school calendar 15 years ago.
It was a catchy headline about a serious matter on Wednesday’s front page. “Ramping up support” was in reference to the future of Lake Greenwood. More specifically lake access for boaters and sport fishermen.
South Carolina is just one of four states without a law that punishes people who violently lash out against others or property because of hate. Rep. Beth Bernstein, D-Columbia, is working to build a coalition of lawmakers to change the status quo — and soon.
South Carolina must improve how it cares for mentally ill prisoners, and it’s happening broadly under a court order that arose from a decade of class-action litigation. But according to a psychiatrist who works at the Camille Graham women’s prison in Columbia, conditions worsened between 201…
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