Should Surfside Beach
be spending its time banning synthetic drugs? We take a look in Thursday’s
editorial:
We can certainly understand the
worries of Surfside
Beach leaders, who appear
poised to ban a slate of synthetic drugs in the town in the coming weeks. The
substances in question can induce vomiting, nausea, hallucinations, paranoid
behavior, anxiety and seizures. Why anybody would voluntarily choose such nasty
experiences is mystifying. Nevertheless, the town’s proposed action may not be
the best solution.
If the Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of
Commerce isn’t already advertising around Pigeon Forge, Tenn., perhaps it’s time to start. We’ve
even got a suggested slogan ready.
Myrtle
Beach: We’re not as morally bankrupt as you might think.
Sunday’s editorial wishes a group dedicated fighting violence in Myrtle Beach the best, but warns that plenty of hard work is yet to come.
The tales of mothers from the Booker T. Washington neighborhood are harrowing and heart-wrenching. The Sun News columnist Issac Bailey chronicled some of them in a series earlier this year that explored the violence that has touched the historic Myrtle Beach section.
Kendra Keel lost two of her sons to violence within 11 months. “Once the streets get your children,” she told the editorial board this week, “there’s no going back.”
Sunday’s editorial urges readers not to forget about the Booker T. Washington neighborhood now that Issac Bailey’s series on the area has come to an end:
The stories of the Booker T. Washington neighborhood brought to light this week by Issac Bailey have been heartbreaking. And encouraging. And frustrating. And inspiring.
For many of us, it was likely the first time we had the chance to learn the stories behind the names of murder victims who appear in the newspaper all too often.
In an editorial today, the newspaper endorsed the Coastal Carolina University decision to end bus service for students to Broadway at the Beach:
Who would have guessed that Coastal Carolina University's initiation last year of weekend shuttle bus service between campus housing and Broadway at the Beach would become a problem? The shuttle would become the designated driver, of sorts, for students who might otherwise drive to watering holes and drive back impaired.
But many students instead saw the buses as an invitation to excessive drinking. Shuttle runs - especially late at night - became so rowdy that the university came under pressure to hire police officers to keep order on the buses.
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