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EDITORIAL: Welcome, Warren - We think you'll like it here
Let us begin by saying that we our delighted to have a living legend as a new boss, albeit a new boss several rungs up the old corporate ladder. News that your company had purchased Media General’s newspapers, including its linchpin holdings here in the Pee Dee area of South Carolina, was warmly received here because the apparent extraordinary length of your suit pants --- how else to explain those deep, deep pockets? – and your reputation for business acumen precedes you. We take it as a compliment, then, that you decided to grab us off the old MG sale rack, and we look forward to getting to know you better.
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COLUMN: New 2-1-1 help line needs more answers
On a sunny spring morning in an office park off Highway 277, on the way into downtown Columbia, a group of workers sits in three rows of cubicles, headsets on, computers fired up and call monitoring screens displaying pertinent data above their heads.
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THUMBS UP, THUMBS DOWN: Litany of heroes made talent show possible
Walter Sparrow, director of Florence County Disabilities Foundation, offers a thumbs up “for everyone who worked so hard to make the 15th annual ‘The Stars Are Out’ Talent Show such a great success this year. A special thanks to Roxie Smallwood and Gina Truett of Carolinas Hospital System for again co-sponsoring this special event this year. Also (a thumb) for the generosity of the staff of Francis Marion University for allowing us to use the McNair Auditorium which was a perfect location for this event.
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EDITORIAL: Latest issue in filing mess is ... dueling?
We said Wednesday there wasn’t much left to say about the Great South Carolina Election Snafu of 2012.We were wrong.
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EDITORIAL: Election filing update: It is still a big mess
On Monday, a panel of federal judges tossed aside a lawsuit that might have delayed South Carolina’s troubled primary but the lawyer for the plaintiffs promised there’s plenty more where that came from.
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EDITORIAL: School choice OK, but S.C. plan is not
Some South Carolina schools are improving, but the basic picture is still one of educational mediocrity (or worse). All kinds of statistical measures and state-to-state – or nation-to-nation – comparisons show that we’re not making up ground fast in this critical area.
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THUMBS UP, THUMBS DOWN: Perfect racing weather for Darlington
Thumbs up to Mother Nature and her dose of picture-perfect weather, doled out just in time for race weekend here in the Pee Dee. Blue skies, temperatures barely touching 80, low humidity … could it be that the gods love racin’?
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THUMBS: Perfect racin' weather, and a CO for Lucy
Thumbs up to Mother Nature and her dose of picture-perfect weather, doled out just in time for Race Weekend here in the Pee Dee. Blue skies, temperatures barely touching 80, low humidity … could it be that the gods love racin’?
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EDITORIAL: Southern 500 a small chunk of our tradition
Race fan or not, this weekend is a special time in the Pee Dee. The eyes of the region, and maybe the nation, focus on little ol’ Darlington, proud home of the famed Darlington Raceway.
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EDITORIAL: Hey, legislature, keep your promises, fund local gov
Complaining that a politician didn’t do what he (or she) promised is a kind of like complaining about getting bit by a snake.
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EDITORIAL: S.C. filing mess ruins an election for no good cause
The law is an ass, wrote Charles Dickens (and others).This delectable phrase comes to mind this week as South Carolina jurists, legislators and politicians of all stripes try to figure out what to do in the wake of a South Carolina Supreme Court ruling enforcing, in a very literal way, a law meant to keep politicians honest.
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Thumbs up to Florence-Darlington baseball; Thumbs down to Timmonsville
Thumbs up to the Florence-Darlington Tech baseball team, which is in the final stages of a magical season. The Stingers have won a school-record 43 games (against just 10 losses) and have been all but unbeatable since a 7-6 start, winning 36 of their past 40 games. Hats off to coach Preston McDonald and the FDTC nine (and more).
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GOD @ WORK: Lessons learned from a lizard
“For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?” _ Matthew 7:2-5
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EDITORIAL: Outside help is only solution for Timmonsville
Stunning and depressing revelations at official meetings in the Town of Timmonsville are nothing new. Starting with last spring’s sudden layoff of 19 employees in Florence School District 4, and running right through just about everything the town council has done since last fall’s elections, it has been nothing but strange and sad news in the little western Florence County hamlet.
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WHAT WERE WE THINKING: I-95 and obesity
Florence Morning News, Saturday, May 5, 1962 They’re Tinkering with Interstate 95A proposed new route for north-south Interstate Highway 95 would place it nearer Charleston. And who do you suppose is proposing this change? Charleston, of course.
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EDITORIAL: A humid hint of what's to come in the Pee Dee
Summertime, and the livin’s easy.
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EDITORIAL: This is no time for return to big government
It’s budget time for local government, and as municipalities, counties and school districts prepare their budgets for the upcoming fiscal year, we offer this word of caution: just because the economy appears to be getting a little bit better, know that the cyclical, spendthrift practices of the past just won’t fly ... or, in all likelihood, ever again.
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THUMBS: Symphony Taste, Girl Scout Gala and lots more
Florence Symphony Guild leaders write, suggesting a “big thumbs up” to the sponsors and celebrity chefs.
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COLUMN: A final, well-deserved salute
On June 14, 1944, an all too short week after troops stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, a fresh-faced young man fromHartsville,South Carolina, by the name of James Howard Haney and his brothers in arms with the U.S. Army’s 30th Infantry Division, 117th Infantry Division, Company G, arrived in England.
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Editorial: We've lost another true hero
On the evening June 6, 1944, the solemn words of President Franklin D. Roosevelt were transmitted by radio to a nation at war. American families listened intently to hear what their leader would say.
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GOD @ WORK: What will your legacy be?
Only be careful, and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and to their children after them. _ Deuteronomy 4:9
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EDITORIAL: Don't cheapen grades just to keep kids interested
If the young Albert Einstein had been a student in the Beaufort County, South Carolina schools, he never would have failed math. He would just have been given a 60 for the first quarter, then, much encouraged, would have recovered to finish the course with a “gentleman’s C.”
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THUMBS: Downtown Market in Florence, saving $$$ both good
Thumbs up to the new Downtown Farmers Market in Florence. It opened this week, and despite a first-day downpour that sent vendors and shoppers scurrying for cover, most thought it a success.
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GOD@WORK: Programmed to purchase or pray?
"Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is - his good, pleasing and perfect will." _ Romans 12:2 According to Google, that cavernous repository of Interenet knowledge, the average American is exposed to about 3,000 advertising messages a day. Globally, corporations spend over $620 billion each year to make their products seem desirable and to get us to buy them.
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Buying 'U.S.A' more important than ever
To the editor, We have all spent a decade now watching most manufactured products being off-shored leaving nine million Americans unemployed in a political experiment to see if we can prosper with a non-manufacturing based economy. I would suspect the perpetual recession we now experience sheds some light on the results of this experiment. I refer to it as a political experiment as both parties sponsored long-term legislation that gave incentives to closing factories and off-shoring manufactured products under the guise of “restructuring.”
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