Palmetto State Teachers Association Statement on Governor’s Budget, 1/8/21
January 8, 2021
By Kathy Maness, Executive Director Palmetto State Teachers Association As our state continues to grapple with the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, our citizens are experiencing a natural desire…
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Everyone has a Role in Creating a Safer Upstate
November 17, 2020By Sheriff Rick Clark and Stinson Ferguson, Co-Chairs, Ten at the Top Safer Upstate Committee While personal and community safety have always been vital components of society, the pandemic and…
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Act UNITED for more affordable housing
October 26, 2020
By Sarah DeWolf Trident United Way, Public Policy Committee Chair You can make a difference this election day by supporting affordable housing in the form of two referenda in Charleston…
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The protests have exposed the flaws that we Americans must keep working to repair
June 9, 2020
By U.S. Rep. James Clyburn In my memoir “Blessed Experiences: Genuinely Southern, Proudly Black,” I share a philosophy I developed as a student protester on the campus of South…
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COVID-19 Impact on Energy Storage Sector
May 7, 2020
By Ron MacDonald Despite the wrecking ball that the pandemic has been on the global economy, businesses and residences will continue to operate as long as there is reliable power…
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College athletics faces significant problems coming out of the coronavirus crisis
April 30, 2020
By Rick Jones, founder, FishBait Marketing All across America, college athletic administrators are struggling with two major issues: Firstly, how to keep their student-athletes, coaches, support staff, students and…
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Opportunities in Our Own Upstate Backyard
April 21, 2020
By Jim White, Ph.D. As the COVID-19 crisis sweeps the country, people living in thousands of impoverished American communities are likely feeling even more anxious than ever. Distressed communities may…
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Opportunities in Our Own Lowcountry Backyard
April 21, 2020
By Jim White, Ph.D. As the COVID-19 crisis sweeps the country, people living in thousands of impoverished American communities are likely feeling even more anxious than ever. Distressed communities may…
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Opportunities in Our Own Backyard
April 21, 2020
By Jim White, Ph.D. As the COVID-19 crisis sweeps the country, people living in thousands of impoverished American communities are likely feeling even more anxious than ever. Distressed communities may…
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The COVID-19 Crisis Requires a New Way of Life
April 2, 2020
By Sam Konduros Unprecedented steps are being taken by all of us – businesses and families alike – as we collectively combat the Coronavirus global pandemic that is hitting far…
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GOP tax law leaves SC small businesses behind
February 12, 2020
By Frank Knapp CEO South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce Today, Vice President Mike Pence is visiting South Carolina to tout the business benefits of the 2017 Tax…
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South Carolina voting rights under the axe
January 25, 2020
By Chuck Saylors SCSBA President and Greenville County Schools Board Member In America, choosing our government is a sacred right and duty. Our vote is our voice, guaranteeing that we…
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Let’s make 2020 the year of the community
December 13, 2019
By Quint Studer If you looked only at the big picture, you’d have to say we live in deeply troubled times. It seems we’ve never been more polarized. Political discourse…
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South Carolina – A Decade in Review
December 10, 2019
By Alan Cooper Publisher WhosOnTheMove.com As South Carolina turns the page on the decade, I’d like to paint a picture of where we were in 2010, where we are…
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Better Together: How Meals on Wheels of Greenville is so much “more than meals”
November 26, 2019
By Catriona Carlisle, Executive Director of Meals on Wheels of Greenville In 2019, Meals on Wheels of Greenville sought to better emphasize a simple mantra that we long embraced –…
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The inflation mystery
October 23, 2019
By Robert Samuelson The virtual elimination of inflation is one of the great uncovered stories of our time. If you go back to the 1970s and the early 1980s…
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Why the global economy remains so weak
October 16, 2019
By Robert Samuelson We’ve seen this movie before. The top economists at the International Monetary Fund — the global agency created after World War II to promote stability and…
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Is Trump’s tail wagging Erdogan?
October 15, 2019
By Kathleen Parker So let me get this straight: President Trump ordered the removal of American troops from northern Syria, knowing that Turkey would invade, seize and occupy Kurd-occupied…
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Stop naming things after politicians
October 14, 2019
By Richard Eckstrom, S.C. Comptroller They’re a staple of the incumbent politician’s toolkit: the countless recognitions, resolutions, proclamations, ribbon-cuttings, and photo-ops which are more ceremonial than anything else, but which…
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The malevolent aura of Donald J. Trump
October 14, 2019
By Kathleen Parker COLUMBIA, S.C. — As the world seems consumed by all things Ukraine, it’s time once again to dust off the ever-popular, evergreen headline: Rudy, Rudy, Rudy.…
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China won’t die laughing
October 9, 2019
By Kathleen Parker Dictators. Always so humorous. Take China’s communist officialdom. You’ve probably heard about the “South Park” episode last week that the Chinese government didn’t find amusing. And…
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Quids and quos gone wild
October 5, 2019
By Kathleen Parker It’s fair to say at this juncture that America’s Quid and Ukraine’s Quo have been caught in bed together. The fevered search for a damning quid…
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Democrats, show me the message
September 30, 2019
By Kathleen Parker We long ago established that Donald Trump is a bad guy. We’ve multiple times said, “This is it. They’ve got to get rid of him.” So…
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Dissent at the Fed
September 30, 2019
By Robert Samuelson The battle to control the Federal Reserve is being waged on many fronts. There’s President Trump’s relentless tirades against Fed Chairman Jerome Powell — and Powell’s…
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The other victim of the Kavanaugh saga
September 25, 2019
By Kathleen Parker Every good story needs a hero, and the saga of Brett Kavanaugh’s rise to the Supreme Court has provided one: Leland Keyser. She also became a…
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The odd couple: Trump and Powell
September 23, 2019
By Robert Samuelson If ever there was a case of political miscalculation, it’s the collapsing relationship between President Trump and the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Jerome (“Jay”)…
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Boomers crush millennials. Read all about it!
September 18, 2019
By Robert Samuelson As a case study in the workings of modern democracy, the handling of Social Security by successive presidents and Congress over recent decades is a deeply…
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The heresy of hearsay
September 18, 2019
By Kathleen Parker The recent fiasco at The New York Times, which last weekend published the latest uncorroborated sexual-assault accusation against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, was a monument…
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Should we love or hate ‘negative’ interest rates?
September 16, 2019
By Robert Samuelson The idea that interest rates could be “negative” seems so counterintuitive that it defies easy understanding. Yet, here we are. Some foreign central banks (among them,…
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Trump won — again
September 16, 2019
By Kathleen Parker Watching the Democratic presidential debate Thursday night left one clear impression: Donald Trump won. Please don’t shoot the messenger. My left index finger recoiled a bit…
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Will the real poverty rate please stand up?
September 11, 2019
By Robert Samuelson It has always been hard to measure poverty, because poverty is as much a state of mind as a condition of material well-being. Still, we seem…
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Through Mark Sanford’s looking glass
September 11, 2019
By Kathleen Parker Once upon a time, Mark Sanford might have been a contender, but there’s too much water under the bridges that stretch from this city of steeples…
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The globalization backlash
September 6, 2019
By Robert Samuelson The verdict of history is that the trade war that’s now raging between the United States and China will lead to no good — with consequences…
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A needed step toward improving S.C.’s beleaguered prisons
September 6, 2019
By Richard Eckstrom, S.C. Comptroller First, let’s acknowledge the obvious: All is not well in South Carolina’s prison system. Its troubles have been pretty well-documented over the past few…
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Should the Fed fight back?
September 4, 2019
By Robert Samuelson “To the barricades.” That’s one way of characterizing Bill Dudley’s recent proposal that the Federal Reserve fight back against President Trump’s unrelenting attacks. Although it’s a…
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Waiting for Dorian
September 3, 2019
By Kathleen Parker For the Eastern Seaboard, Dorian has become the Godot of hurricanes. Barely moving after hovering over the Bahamas for what seemed an eternity, the former Category…
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Have we lost our economic dynamism?
September 3, 2019
By Robert Samuelson On this Labor Day, the American economy — the source of jobs for almost all of us — is full of promise and peril. It is…
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The Old South gets a new college president
September 2, 2019
By Kathleen Parker From a childhood laboring in China’s cotton and wheat fields to the presidency of the College of Charleston, Andrew Hsu’s story is anything but ordinary. His…
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A world on fire
August 27, 2019
By Kathleen Parker A question for this moment: If the Earth’s lungs were on fire and the doctor refused to treat it, would there be cause for a third-party…
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The elderly aren’t so poor after all
August 27, 2019
By Robert Samuelson It was probably inevitable that we would have a “retirement crisis” as hordes of baby boomers (people born between 1946 and 1964) sprint and stumble into…
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S.C. must act wisely with $350 million surplus
August 26, 2019
By Richard Eckstrom, S.C. Comptroller I’ll start with the good news: I recently closed the books for the fiscal year that ended June 30, and even after some additional “contingent” spending…
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The great deficit gamble
August 26, 2019
By Robert Samuelson It’s getting harder and harder to write these budget columns, because it must be obvious to almost everyone by now that hardly anyone in Washington (or…
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To heck with profits!
August 21, 2019
By Robert Samuelson We’ve been here before: one of those portentous moments when corporate America promises to be more socially “responsible.” These episodes are, it seems, a permanent feature…
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Learning from the Great Depression
August 19, 2019
By Robert Samuelson What is striking about the latest bouts of financial turmoil — the recent wild swings in global stock and bond markets — is that they provide…
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Here’s why we may be underspending on defense
August 14, 2019
By Robert Samuelson I’ve written several columns this year on military spending, contending — against conventional wisdom — that we don’t spend more than the next eight countries combined,…
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Is the economy turning against Trump?
August 12, 2019
By Robert Samuelson To have a recession or not — that is the question. It also encompassed last week’s most important political news, notwithstanding all the public attention understandably…
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The shaming of America
August 12, 2019
By Kathleen Parker One of the everlasting social forces in directing human behavior — shame — has become part of the 2020 presidential race. And one of the most…
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The China-America trade crackup
August 7, 2019
By Robert Samuelson Donald Trump sold himself to the American public as an expert deal-maker. At the top of his list was a promised trade bargain with China that…
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A tale of Zorro and Little St. Jeff’s
August 3, 2019
By Kathleen Parker The more we learn, the more Jeffrey Epstein resembles an evil comic book character for the developmentally arrested intellectual — the charming-but-lurid mastermind with a plot…
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