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South Carolina lawmakers should finally make this the year that the state raises its embarrassingly low cigarette tax.
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I can’t help but think of the saying “you can’t see the forest for the trees” when I read articles like the recent story on more potential budget cuts and furloughs in our schools.
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We continue to see the results of polls stating that the American people want legislators to work together through bipartisanship to address this country’s most pressing issues. And that they believe “jobs,” i.e. the prevention of more losses and the...
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In the news, Erskine College officials have encountered a problem related to their Presbyterian background. To us in the Upstate, this provides more than an item of casual interest, as we take matters of religion seriously. One reason is that our area...
When the first South Carolina Freedom of Information Act was introduced in the House of Representatives in 1971, the bill stated that “The General Assembly finds that it is vital in a democratic society that public business be performed in an open and...
Something is happening just north of downtown Greenville. For years now, the area has been burgeoning with new activity, with homeowners restoring historic houses and creative new businesses coming to stay. Something is happening, and it is distinctively...
Like a pack of wolves on the prowl, the howling, snarling, vicious assault on the institutions that make our country great continue. The attack against the insurance industry is fueled by much misinformation about the elements that make up an insurance...
Greenville Business Magazine’s recent listing of “Greenville’s 50 Most Influential” includes a number of folks who don’t live here and whose primary business interest seems to focus “outside of the county.” What does this mean? Or better asked, what does...
How did they find the courage? They were just kids after all, students at Sterling High School in segregated Greenville. Fifty years ago, on March 16, 1960, seven of them walked into the main branch of the Greenville Library — to read a book. They were...
It’s hard to miss the rhetoric from President Barack Obama about “we need to create jobs .” I’d like to offer a broader perspective on how America and South Carolina can get people back to work even without another government program.
On Feb. 18, a small plane was intentionally crashed into an office building in Austin, Texas, where almost 200 IRS employees work. This wanton act of violence took the life of Vernon Hunter, 68, who served his nation as an IRS employee for almost three...
Many of you have already heard the American Cancer Society (ACS) statistics. Each year, colon cancer is diagnosed in 150,000 people in this country. A person’s lifetime risk of being diagnosed is 5 percent.
If politicians are supposed to keep their friends close and their enemies closer, where should President Barack Obama keep U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham? More
The Clemson men's basketball team landed a better-than-expected No. 7 seed Sunday evening when the field for the 65-team NCAA Tournament was announced More
House Majority Whip James Clyburn said Sunday that he hasn’t yet rounded up enough votes to pass health care in the House of Representatives, but leaders are on track to get it done. More
Columbia shoppers have long envied the retail options in Greenville and Charleston: Whole Foods, Costco, Pottery Barn and P.F. Chang’s, to name a few. More
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