Charleston Currents – 2015

CALENDAR: July 27+: Comedy to back-to-school

Calendar for July 27+: Taming of the Shrew, back-to-school events, sales tax holiday

by Charleston Currents · 07/27/2015 · Comments are Disabled · calendar

HISTORY: Charleston single house

S.C. Encyclopedia | The single house is the building form most closely associated with eighteenth-century Charleston architecture. It first appeared in the early eighteenth century and emerged as a favored residential form after the fire of 1740. The typical single house stands two or more stories in height and is built on a rectangular plan with its narrow end facing the street. Each floor has two rooms with a central stair-hall in between. Piazzas occupy the long wall facing the inside of the lot, and the chimneys are located on the opposite wall, in the rear of the house.

by Charleston Currents · 07/27/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Features, S.C. Encyclopedia

LETTER: Didn’t like “unscientific” poll on carriage horses

Letter: I wouldn’t put too much stock in an unscientific online poll that accompanies a distressing story about a very rare carriage mishap.

by Charleston Currents · 07/27/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Feedback

FOCUS: Get facts straight on sex ed curriculum

By April L. Borkman, special to Charleston Currents | Almost 20 percent of South Carolina middle school students have had sexual intercourse, according to the 2013 Youth Risk Behavior Survey This number only continues to increase as students enter and attend high school with 57 percent of high school students reporting being sexually experienced. While we have made abundant strides in reducing teen pregnancy rates in South Carolina over the past 20 years, South Carolina still ranks 11th for teen pregnancy nationally.

On Aug. 4, members of the Charleston County School Board’s Secondary Education Committee (SEC) will vote on a new sex education curriculum, which is called “Making Proud Choices” (MPC). It is an evidence-based, proven, effective and comprehensive sex education curriculum.

by Charleston Currents · 07/27/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Focus, Good news

BRACK: Dump Trump — Americans deserve better than bombast

By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | If you don’t want Hillary Clinton to be the next president, you better get off the escalating Trump bandwagon pretty darned quickly.

by Andy Brack · 07/27/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Andy Brack, Views

MORRIS: Our World Trade Center is making a difference

By Kyra Morris, contributing editor | Our world is a global world. Our markets are global markets. Economic viability depends on our ability to interact within these horizons.

by Kyra Morris · 07/27/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Money, Views

GOOD NEWS: New station to start broadcasting Saturday

Get ready for a new era of local radio when OHM Radio starts broadcasting 11 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 1, at 96.3 FM on the radio dial.

by Charleston Currents · 07/27/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Good news, News briefs

PHOTO: Riding piggyback?

Hanahan photographer Chuck Boyd was driving in Raleigh for a Rolling Stones concert when he did a double take after he saw what looked like a small car riding piggyback on top of a van. “Moments later, I saw it really was a transport truck hauling a load of cars to a dealership,” he wrote. “I caught it at just the right angle to create a silly illusion.”

by Charleston Currents · 07/27/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Photos

July 27, full issue: Sex ed, Trump, world trade center

In the July 27 issue, April Borkman corrects the record on a sex ed course; Andy Brack says voters should dump Trump; and Kyra Morris outlines why our World Trade Center Charleston is important. Also: OHM Radio to start broadcasting soon.

by Charleston Currents · 07/27/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Full issue