Thursday’s editorial points out leaders of an Illinois town that would gladly take prisoners from Guantanamo Bay, unlike S.C. politicians.
A tiny town in Illinois seems to have pulled the rug from
under some S.C. politicians grandstanding to the point of demagoguing on the
possibility of terrorism suspects being transferred to a military prison at the
Naval Weapons Station Charleston.
Thomson is a village of 500 people
in northwestern Illinois and the site of a
nearly empty state prison, the Thomson
Correctional Center.
The village president (mayor), Jerry Hebeler, says moving prisoners from the
military prison at Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba, would be
terrific news for his town. Why? Because having the terrorism suspects in Thomson Correctional Center
would be an economic boon for his little neck of the woods. He's thinking about
new jobs for corrections officers and other staff to run the facility and their
salaries and the benefit to the town and surrounding area.
Continue reading "Politicians Play on Fear" »
Thursday’s editorial suggests lawmakers revamp the mechanism
to pay for low-level dispute mediation within homeowners’ associations.
Not all the ire against the S.C.
Homeowners' Association Act is warranted, but lawmakers who support it could do
us all a favor by removing the component that seems to draw the most heat: a
$10 fee added to every unit or lot across the state.
Continue reading "That Pesky $10" »
Saturday's editorial explores the trajectory of Atlantic Beach Mayor Retha Pierce's path from a well-liked community fixture to, frankly, an embarrassment to that same community, and suggests she step down so the town can move forward.
As news of Atlantic Beach Mayor Retha
Pierce's fourth arrest since her 2007 election played across the Grand
Strand this week, many doubtlessly wondered how she was ever elected in
the first place.
Continue reading "Long Fall From Grace" »
Friday's editorial urges state lawmakers to do whatever is necessary to keep the legal drinking age at 21.
Could any policy really be more destructive in Myrtle Beach than lowering the drinking age to 18?
Continue reading "The Intoxication of Youth" »
Thursday's secondary editorial praises Sen. Lindsey Graham's independence and thought leadership in endorsing Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the U.S. Supreme Court.
On Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham
cast the lone "yes" vote among the seven Republicans on the Senate
Judiciary Committee to endorse Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the U.S.
Supreme Court.
Continue reading "Aye vote for Graham" »
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-SC, defied party lines today as the only Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee to vote in favor of Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
Continue reading "Graham vote on Sotomayor" »
Chief Judge Karen Williams abruptly resigned from the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals this week, informing colleagues that she has early-onset Alzheimer's and stating that she did not want to write opinions that would later be questioned on the basis of her illness.
Continue reading "Missing Judge Williams" »
Saturday's lead editorial examines how President Obama's first Supreme Court nominee may fare with Republicans, through the lens of South Carolina's two U.S. senators.
Both of the state's U.S. senators are
where one would expect at this early stage in the process of naming a
new justice to the Supreme Court of the United States. Jim DeMint and
Lindsey Graham are withholding judgment on President Obama's nomination
of Sonia Sotomayor to the nation's highest court.
Continue reading "Senators' Approach Hopeful" »
Wednesday's editorial urges locals to patronize the newly opened Freestyle Music Park, based on its importance to the local economy and better value for families, and also praises a judge's recent decision in the new owners' favor:
Freestyle Music Park is open and
running as a transformed attraction for residents and tourists alike -
and a positive force in the regional economy.
Continue reading "Freestyle Season's Under Way" »
Sunday's editorial bemoans the governor's continued obstinance on what we believe to be a flawed opposition to taking $350 million in federal stimulus money.
The Sun News has long commended Gov.
Mark Sanford for his fealty to fiscal conservatism, while decrying his
preference for principles and theory over the practicalities of
real-life governance. This week, as he and the state legislature head
to federal court over the use of $350 million in federal stimulus money
to shore up next year's shrunken budget, we continue to shake our heads.
Continue reading "Stimulus war drags on" »
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