Saturday’s editorial offers a little applause to the Horry
County Solid Waste Authority for taking creative action to address some
residents’ concerns.
The Horry County Solid Waste
Authority deserves a tip of the hat for an unusual decision this week –
hoisting a bright blue balloon over the dump.
Continue reading "Everyone loves balloons " »
Saturday’s lead editorial highlights a reading program with
the potential to do real good for children living in Conway’s housing projects.
The new year may well bring a new
love of reading for children in some of Conway's
housing projects through the efforts of a group of volunteers named the Freedom
Readers.
Continue reading "Sharing the joy of reading " »
Here's the weekend's open forum. Be civil and enjoy.
Friday’s editorial notes the continually eroding credibility
of North Myrtle Beach’s police department.
It was just a petty little lie, but
it speaks volumes.
“Director [William] Bailey's
vehicle was parked at his residence and his weapon was in a locked glove
compartment,” North Myrtle Beach's spokeswoman
told The Sun News about the theft of the public-safety director's gun Tuesday.
The next day, The Sun News discovered that the glove compartment in Bailey's
truck has no lock.
Continue reading "The Truth Hurts " »
Here's the first open forum of 2010. Be civil and enjoy, as always, and certainly have a happy New Year.
Thursday's editorial criticizes both the deal that led to the passage of the Senate health care bill and our attorney general's high-profile investigation of it.
Republican critics derisively call the deal that passed health care through the Senate the "Cornhusker kickback," and to be completely honest, it does kind of stink of politics as usual.
Continue reading "Pork and Preens" »
By Alan Charles
As I sat down to write this piece for the last day of the
year, I thought “gee, what can I say that others will not have already said so
much more eloquently than I?” Here is
what I chose to say.
A couple of things have been on my mind this past week as
I’ve read a lot of comments on a lot of blogs about each poster’s ideas of why
everything wrong in America and the world is all the fault of one particular
political party or the other or one former president or our current president.
Each poster just “knows” that things would be so much better “if only” their
party or their president were in power and
they just can’t understand why “those other folks” can’t see why their
ideas are so “wrong.”
Continue reading "Closing out 2009" »
Unsurprisingly, U.S. Rep. Gresham Barrett's gubernatorial campaign takes a pretty dim view of the reliability of the poll I wrote about in my column today.
They have a point. Little has happened from the beginning of December, when Barrett was tied for first place with McMaster in two polls, to Dec. 16, when the most recent poll showed weaker numbers for him than McMaster, Bauer or even Nikki Haley, a state representative.
B.J. Boling, the affable Barrett spokesman whom overattentive readers will remember from John McCain's (successful) S.C. primary campaign, sent a note today explaining the flaws the Barrett camp sees with the Insider Advantage methodology. Definitely worth a read - and remember my column's caveat, that we're so far out from the primary that all this is just idle speculation anyway. The governor's race won't begin in earnest until after the New Year (though I bet it gets real good, real quick).
B.J.'s letter in its entirety appears below the jump.
Continue reading "Barrett campaign: Latest guv poll is "a stretch"" »
My latest column takes a look at the governor’s race through
the lens of the first poll to include all 10 candidates.
Common sense would say that any
poll for next year's governor's race taken right now – with many voters just
now starting to forget the trauma inflicted by last month's city elections, right
in the middle of the holidays, with three months before filing and six months
before the primaries – would be awfully premature.
And yet, the first poll to include
all 10 announced gubernatorial candidates is almost impossible not to chew on.
Get your grain of salt, and let's proceed with a look at an Insider
Advantage/Majority Opinion poll (PDF) posted earlier this month.
Continue reading "Early standings in the horse race " »
Wednesday’s editorial praises the expansion of a local
health education center, and the benefits it will bring the area.
An important positive note for the
new year is the start of an expansion at the Robert
E. Speir
Healthcare Education
Center on the Grand Strand campus of Horry-Georgetown Technical College
on the former Myrtle Beach Air Force Base. The $7.4 million addition is a
triple play for the area.
Continue reading "HGTC Building Addition " »
Tuesday’s secondary editorial praises the apparent recovery
in the century-old town of Andrews.
Hard economic times and some
recovery are pretty much the story of Andrews, a town incorporated in 1909 by
combining the communities of Harpers Crossroads and Rosemary. Walter H. Andrews
helped with the incorporation, and the new town bore his name. He was the mayor
in the 1920s, his time in office ending just before the old Seaboard Air Line
Railroad closed its Andrews shop in 1928 and the town lost about 700 people.
That same year, Seaboard Lumber Co. closed its operation in Andrews.
Continue reading "Looking Forward " »
Tuesday’s lead editorial highlights the special importance
of snowbirds to our local economy this year.
Snowbirds, those reliable winter
visitors from the cold, cold North, have been an increasing part of the
population here from November through March, and they have never been more
welcome.
Continue reading "Never More Welcome " »
By Richard L. Wolfe
Def: Contract whose formation, object, or performance is so iniquitous, against
the law of the land, or contrary to public policy, that no court will entertain or enforce it. Technically, it is a 'no
contract.' In situations where two wrong doers enter into an illegal contract
and one of them takes advantage of the other, law normally will not intercede to
rectify the situation.
I will apologize in advance to those who are tired of being
saturated with this subject. I am referring of course to the unconstitutional
Health Care Reform bill that the Senate recently passed. I would like to
discuss only the part of the legislation that makes it unconstitutional which
is the individual mandate to carry health insurance.
Continue reading "AN ILLEGAL CONTRACT " »
Here's Tuesday's open forum. Be civil and enjoy.
By Sunny Fry
This won't be in any way coherent, because my thoughts on it
are not.
But I keep reading the paper -- "conscience" votes
bought on sweeping reform, elected officials and judges speeding at will,
questionable loopholes regarding campaign contributions, foot tapping and
adultery -- you name it, we've seen it.
I'm reminded of George Washington, who absolutely knew he
had character flaws, and worked diligently to counter them all his life.
And of Ben Franklin, who thought the noble experiment call
the United States
would fail if its people weren't self-policing.
And of Harry Truman who adored Bess, chewing out the aide
who offered to find him some discreet female companionship, telling him to
never make that suggestion again.
Continue reading "Musings on Morality " »
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