Today is April 1. Something needs to change in South Carolina by then. No fooling. And it’s up to Gov. Henry McMaster to do so.

As much as the coronavirus crisis has impacted business and finance and stands to do so further, there will be recovery. Markets will recover. People will recover.

Congress and the Trump administration must act swiftly to send a lifeline to citizens and an economy reeling from the ravages of the coronavirus. The aid will come as welcome relief to many Americans, but lawmakers can’t allow this unprecedented spending all to sit on the nation’s credit card.

“Beware the Ides of March” is a Shakespeare phrase that resonates in 2020. It is not Caesar who should heed the warning; it is all of us.

This is not how open, participatory government is supposed to work.

Where do we begin?

Are you doing your part?

If there is anything consistent about the COVID-19 pandemic it is that there is really nothing consistent.

Newspapers are accustomed to criticism. It comes with the territory. This newspaper has not shied away from publishing letters to the editor that are critical of its coverage of news and events, even when the criticism seems unwarranted or just a bit over the top.

The coronavirus pandemic should change the way we address the American health care crisis. It might force us to face the hard facts.

With the volume of rain that has fallen in The T&D Region and around South Carolina, it’s hard to think of wildfires as much of a risk just now. Things will change.

Today, we point a latex-covered thumbs up to everyone who:

In a promising development, Facebook recently removed a Trump campaign ad for violating its policy against misleading political posts. But that one example of diligence by a platform that inadvertently enabled Russian election interference in 2016 doesn’t negate the broader remaining danger:…

At a time when patience and kindness should be at a high point, expect tensions to rise amid the latest news about the coronavirus.

Young people could change this country.

Please, don’t be so self-absorbed that you cannot fathom — or choose not to fathom — the importance of how businesses, organizations, schools, entertainment venues and the like have been responding to the coronavirus.

Imagine the power company decided it had too much money, so it was giving $100 credits to its customers. But there’s a catch: Only people with a power bill of at least $100 would get the credit.

Thumbs up to today. It’s Friday. What’s more, it’s Friday the 13th, so what could possibly go wrong?

You know the expression “Don’t shoot the messenger.”

Just three years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Texas law that so restricted abortion clinics’ medical staffing that it effectively guaranteed they couldn’t function at all. Now, a Louisiana law attempting this same roundabout scheme to deny abortion rights is going before the cou…

Hey, kids. We know you’re not reading this, but we wish you were. Actually, if the kids who should be reading this were actually reading it, then we wouldn’t be writing this thing we want them to read. We dare say the ones this is addressing simply are not bright enough and might even need s…

Democrats and even some Republicans have long pushed the idea that money buys elections, especially since the Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. FEC decision. The boogeyman of campaign spending has been invoked to justify proposals to limit freedom of speech and restrict the public’s ability…

Greenwood County Council did the right thing in putting the Local Option Sales Tax issue before county voters this November.

A third of the people who die on S.C. highways are killed by drunken drivers, and South Carolina has some of the most dangerous highways in the nation. One 2019 study showed only Wyoming has more alcohol-related traffic deaths per person than South Carolina.