EVEN THOUGH IT turned out that the delay in getting him to the hospital did not kill Jadan Myers-Pugh, the 3-year-old's death already has prompted officials to begin talks about ending what clearly seems a too-bureaucratic and potentially dangerous policy that prohibits Columbia firefighters from driving Richland County ambulances in emergencies.
Intelligent people agree that, absent immediate radical action regarding global warming, the human race is sunk. That is a tautology because those who do not agree are, definitionally, unintelligent. Britain's intelligent Prime Minister Gordon Brown gives scary precision to the word "immediate." By his reckoning, humanity now has about 30 days to save itself. He says that unless a decisive agreement is reached at the 192-nation summit on climate change that opens Dec. 7 in Copenhagen, all is lost.
THERE USUALLY is an inverse relationship between the number of candidates on the stage and the usefulness of a debate. Too many people leaves almost no chance for back and forth between two candidates and makes it difficult even for questioners to concentrate on what any one of them says, which means candidates don't get pinned down and challenged the way they should.
BMW arrived in 1992 with a vision to increase the wealth of South Carolina and improve world perception of South Carolina. It has, creating and continuing to grow our automotive industry, enriching not only the Upstate but also Charleston's ports and the rest of the state.
The controversy over Attorney General Henry McMaster's acceptance and later return of $32,000 of campaign contributions from lawyers he hired to represent the state of South Carolina in a lawsuit against drug companies is yet another episode in a continuing chronicle of attorneys general taking campaign money from lawyers and parties having legal business with the state.
As a conservative independent, I would like to add my 2 cents worth to the excellent points made Thursday by Bob Smart ("Fringe politics vs. effective governing") and Patrick Frank ("Attacks on Graham disgraceful") in defending Sen. Lindsey Graham from those who criticize him for trying to work with Democrats to achieve his goals.
Memorial services will be held Saturday in Washington for my friend and colleague, Jack Nelson, who died of pancreatic cancer last month. Direct, on point and precisely true: That was Jack Nelson, one of America's greatest journalists during the second half of the 20th Century and co-author with me of The Orangeburg Massacre.
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I HOPE attorney Steve Morrison does more than consider a run for mayor of Columbia.
THERE USUALLY is an inverse relationship between the number of candidates on the stage and the usefulness of a debate. Too many people leaves almost no chance for back and forth between two candidates and makes it difficult even for questioners to concentrate on what any one of them says, which means candidates don't get pinned down and challenged the way they should.
IT'S NO BIG surprise that budget cuts have severely weakened the ability of Columbia firefighters to respond to fires.
In 2003, I was on a trip to Iraq and had arranged an appointment in the Green Zone with a member of the then-Iraqi Governing Council. Security was tight. I was with my Iraqi translator, a middle-aged man who had once been a teacher. When we arrived at the council, after a long walk, I showed my ID to two young uniformed U.S. soldiers. They told me to wait, went inside and out came a man wearing civilian clothes, one of those fishing vests and an Australian bush hat.
THE EDITORIAL BOARD of The State finds itself faced with a happy dilemma — a choice between two
presidential candidates whom we unanimously and enthusiastically endorsed in their primary contests. Now the nation must choose between them, and while we believe either man would make a fine president, we endorse Sen. John McCain of Arizona....
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