The Clemson University athletic department and its director, Dan Radakovich, should be congratulated for maintaining Clemson University athletics at a high level within the Atlantic Coast Conference, as well as nationally. Moreover, the department’s emphasis on and demonstrated success in su…

The summer Olympics and the Para-Olympics have finished and now fall brings us high school and college football. These events remind me of the hard work and dedication of the athletes who are competing but it also reminds me that each of these young men and women have a community of supporte…

Keeping up the spectacle of South Carolina’s Murdaugh murder case is like riding a land rocket without steering.

Do you ever wonder about the roads in life you did not take, or what happened to the friends who took different paths than you did?

After World War I the world began to look at the United States differently. Its role in helping to defeat Germany enhanced its reputation.

I grew up, a white Southerner, with a racially prejudiced father and a narcissistic mother who wanted to control my life even into adulthood. While I am grateful to my mother for teaching me to read at a very early age and also for limiting my grade skipping to one grade for psychological an…

Dear Avery,

Asian-Americans trace their roots to more than 20 countries. However, the majority come from China, Japan, India, Korea, Vietnam and the Philippine Islands. The nation’s Asian population recorded the fastest growth rate among all racial and ethnic groups between 2000 and 2019. In total, Asia…

It wasn’t too long ago that South Carolina’s congressional caucus carried a lot of clout, punching well above its weight for a state its size. Today? Not so much.

Throughout South Carolina’s history, there has been a streak of independence that morphed into an ingrained hard-headed reactionary reflex. It’s not uncommon for people on either side of the aisle — and people who don’t even care about politics — to react in one similar way: “Don’t tell me w…

Falls are a major health problem in older adults. One in every three people over 65 falls each year, and at age 80 and above, one in every two people fall each year.

Politics has always been an occasionally nasty business. Alexander Hamilton died in an 1804 duel with Aaron Burr. A South Carolina congressman caned and nearly killed a Massachusetts senator in 1856 over slavery. A mob of zealots upset by presidential election results stormed the U.S. Capito…

I’m a rabid sports fan and have to be careful not to spend too much time watching sports on TV. While I’m making confessions, I must also admit to being a movie addict. I love all types of movies – action, drama, comedy and any combination thereof. Though I often watch a movie to “escape,” I…

“Health is wealth,”

More than 10,000 South Carolinians have died in the last year and a half from COVID-19. With the availability of incredibly effective vaccines and the common-sense step of wearing masks in crowded places, we have the tools to win the COVID War.

When the fox guards the henhouse, the fox pretty much can do as it pleases.

Arrogant. Stupid. Outrageous. Bizarre. Traitor.

Defunding police was pushed last year by progressives and the far left despite opposition from conservatives.

The enormity of anti-science fervor in the Republican-controlled South Carolina legislature that will keep students, most unvaccinated, from wearing masks is mind-blowingly ignorant.

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.

Public statistics are deeply disturbing.

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.

Humans take air in and let it out, or breathe, 25,000 times a day. Breathing is a key input of our health.

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?