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August 30, 2009
COLUMN: Some things never change with 24-year-old sons around
Some things never change.
COLUMN: Plan ahead if you want to retire in the Upstate
According to one statistic, somewhere, a Baby Boomer is turning 61 every seven minutes.
August 24, 2009
OPINION: Why Santee Cooper is suspending the Pee Dee Energy Campus permit porocess
Santee Cooper’s Board of Directors recently approved a management recommendation to suspend permitting activities on the proposed Pee Dee Energy Campus in Florence County.
August 23, 2009
COLUMN: Writer from 1882 gives Florence glowing review
Where around here do you suppose you could find it “cheering to hear the sound of saw, hammer and trowel on all sides”?
August 16, 2009
COLUMN: The names of cities, town, places in the Pee Dee
Everybody — well nearly everybody around here — knows where Florence, city and county, got their name.
August 13, 2009
OPINION: Story and its approach concerning use of state plane are wrong
In my first race for Congress a local reporter in Myrtle Beach had taken a few words from an interview and used them in a different context to paint a picture that was far from what I believed. When I confronted him on taking my words out of context his simple reply was, “Life is out of context.”
July 26, 2009
OPINION: Uncle Walter: a connection with memories
In 1963, Morning News editor James Rogers told me we had been invited to send a reporter to Kansas City with the state’s Future Farmers of America delegation to their national convention. Would I like to take the trip?
OPINION: ‘Stimulus’ a bad idea, then and now
The record-shattering $787 billion “stimulus” package was touted before Congress passed it as a way to immediately create jobs and get the economy moving again. Five months later, the only thing that seems to have been stimulated is growth in government.
July 19, 2009
OPINION: Judge Williams’ courage reminds us to be aware of Alzheimer warning signs
From South Carolina to Washington, D.C., many were saddened this week to hear of Judge Karen Williams resignation from the 4th Circuit Court due to a diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease.
OPINION: Plenty to do in New York without spending a lot
On a travel Web site, a woman asked what she could do in New York without spending lots of money.
OPINION: Water: The fight for our economic future
As recently reported, North Carolina is taking actions that could leave parts of South Carolina high and dry, and Charlotte-based Duke Energy is helping them.
July 12, 2009
OPINION: When it comes to early childhood education, South Carolina must do more
There is good news and bad news for South Carolina in the school readiness report released last month by the child advocacy organization, Save the Children.
OPINION: Where Sanford’s head is, is a concern of the citizens
When Mark and Jenny Sanford got married on Nov. 4, 1989, the number one song in the U.S. was “Listen to Your Heart” by Roxette.
July 10, 2009
OPINION: Station wagon vacation amidst moonwalk
We gave no particular thought to the space shot in 1969 when planning our first station wagon vacation.
July 03, 2009
Nothing new about embarrassing politicians
Much has been said about Gov. Mark Sanford’s AWOL and other behavior embarrassing South Carolina. There’s something new about S.C. politicians embarrassing the state?
June 28, 2009
OPINION: On health care reform, veterans first
Individuals and groups terrified of nationalized health care like to point to examples of government dysfunction, such as Medicaid, to stoke fears of what a government-managed plan would look like in the United States.
COLUMN: Florence’s first football team quite successful
Football was still a pretty new game, and Florence was still a pretty young community in 1912.
June 21, 2009
FLT regular will be missed in Florence
It is a little like the end of an era. But to start at the beginning, a young couple moved to Florence more than 50 years ago so he could work in a family manufacturing business in the county.
Legislative session shows need to restructure
This year’s legislative session closed on Tuesday as the House and the Senate overrode the 10 vetoes that I had cast.
Santee Cooper: Two years of missed opportunities
In a guest column that ran in the Charleston Post & Courier on July 6, 2007, I said that Santee Cooper’s proposed coal-fired plant in Florence County was a bad business decision.
June 14, 2009
City must address critical needs
There is no free lunch. For the past several months, Florence City Council has been wrestling with a budget that contains dangerous shortfalls, leaving critical fire and police needs unfunded.
Shorty was a character in old downtown
Some veteran Florentines who were around when Florence had a real downtown might remember Shorty Andrews.
June 11, 2009
State deals with military service separation
Update from the Senate: I would like to take a moment and tell you about S.155, the Military Parent Equal Protection Act ...
June 09, 2009
Immigration reform bill needs to be dealt with
As we’ve all learned, there are certain things in life that you can count on: taxes, flowers in the spring and that good fences make good neighbors.
June 07, 2009
New momentum for government transparency
With all the “bad news” permeating the airwaves and newsprint these days — news of record unemployment, huge budget deficits and the ongoing drama over stimulus money jump to mind — it’s easy to overlook some of the good news occurring in our state.
Spoleto a different world from week to week
There is quite a difference between opening weekend of the Spoleto Festival in Charleston and the second, or middle, weekend.
Calling all … Palmettovores!
The South Carolina Department of Agriculture is hard at work to increase the understanding of why it’s better to eat local and how doing this helps South Carolina farmers.
May 31, 2009
When railroad engineers were rock stars of the day
Florence railroad engineer W.W. Corrie made an unusually fast and efficient run between Ashley Junction near Charleston and Florence in 1894 and got a lot of attention.
Foster families are always needed
Currently, nearly half a million children in the United States are in foster care because their own families are in crisis and unable to provide for their essential well-being.
May 24, 2009
Driving report surprisingly off the mark
New York drivers are the nation’s worst? That’s what a GMAC Insurance test suggests.
