WE EXPECTED BETTER from Barney Giese. Unlike the solicitor across the river whose pathetic excuses for his own drunken driving charges (charges brought while he was driving a county car on a taxpayer-funded out-of-state junket) the intelligence of voters, or the former Richland County prosecutor who relied on slick lawyering of the sort that prosecutors rightly lambaste, Mr. Giese has never come across as someone who thumbs his nose at the law, who thinks there are different standards for himself...
Inez Tenenbaum, who was unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate last month to chair the Consumer Product Safety Commission, has vowed to ban or toughen standards testing for several consumer products from China, including toys with lead paint.
A new poll of 20 nations, with 62 percent of the world’s population, finds that, among global leaders, President Obama inspires the most confidence — while the leaders of Russia and Iran inspire the least.
As a marriage and family therapist licensed in the state of South Carolina, a licensed professional counselor, a clinical member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapists, a trained spiritual director, a practicing Christian and a woman who has been married once, for 30 years, I feel compelled to comment on a few things regarding the Sanfords’ choice of “counsel” during these difficult times. This is my personal opinion, not necessarily representing...
When you’re up to your waders in barracuda, blame the media. And quit your job. And say you did it for the people. And hire an agent.
District 5 has problem with openness I read with interest school board chairman Robert Gantt’s op-ed (“Community supports District 5 building plan,” June 24) in which he said Lexington-Richland 5 made enrollment information available to voters before the referendum.
By MICHAEL POST
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WHILE GOV. Mark Sanford and his wife, Jenny, should privately deal with his admission that he cheated on her, we need to talk openly about infidelity.
THE THING that has been so maddening about Gov. Mark Sanford’s quest to remake South Carolina in his libertarian image has been less the bad ideas themselves than the way he has tried to sell them — the rote recitation by him and his loyalists of “facts” and figures that are at best misleading.
ENVIRONMENTALISTS rightly complain that a new coal-powered electricity-generating plant in the Pee Dee would spew too many poisons into the air and contribute to global climate change, and they make a strong case when they argue that a proposed federal law to regulate greenhouse emissions would significantly impact the financial assumptions behind the Santee Cooper proposal.
Sometimes, the best that can be said of a bad situation is that it could have been a whole lot worse. Budget realities being what they are, it’s disappointing but not surprising that the General Assembly did not address major reforms critical to advancing education this year, including comprehensive tax reform, adequate and equitable funding and expansion of pre-kindergarten programs for children at risk of school failure.
Looking back on the candidates this newspaper endorsed, and how they did.
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