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BRACK: Read the Declaration of Independence during holiday week

BRACK: Read the Declaration of Independence during holiday week

By Andy Brack, editor and publisher: Now that the fireworks and festivities from the Fourth of July are a new memory, how about taking a bolder, more reflective step to celebrate the true spirit of America? Find a quiet spot and seriously consider the 1,339 words of our country’s declaration against tyranny, our Declaration of Independence. Better yet: Sit down as a family and read it out loud together. 

by · 07/05/2021 · 1 comment · Andy Brack, Views
BRACK: Celebrate Carolina Day with gusto

BRACK: Celebrate Carolina Day with gusto

By Andy Brack, editor and publisher  |  All South Carolinians today should toast the courage and mettle of patriots from 245 years who vanquished the powerful British navy in the Battle of Sullivan’s Island and secured the first major colonial victory in the Revolutionary War.

by · 06/28/2021 · 1 comment · Andy Brack, Views
BRACK: State is awash in big spending

BRACK: State is awash in big spending

By Andy Brack, editor and publisher  | A righteous cynic might say the state of South Carolina is about to turn on a spigot of spending that would make a drunken sailor proud. But perhaps the state is finally starting to catch up on investments that it didn’t make for years in education, employee salaries and neglected infrastructure.  

by · 06/21/2021 · Comments are Disabled · Andy Brack, Views
BRACK: Give special treatment to tailgaters

BRACK: Give special treatment to tailgaters

By Andy Brack, editor and publisher  |  Tailgaters deserve a special place in hell.

Not the folks who enjoy a beer and a brat in a parking lot party at a football game.  But the selfish drivers who sneak into your rearview mirror and perch one car length off your bumper as you’re sailing down the interstate at 70 mph.

by · 06/14/2021 · Comments are Disabled · Andy Brack, Views
BRACK: Why getting vaccinated is more important than ever

BRACK: Why getting vaccinated is more important than ever

By Andy Brack, editor and publisher  |  The number of new South Carolina cases of people getting COVID-19 has dropped significantly with 122 new cases one recent day, 71 new cases the day before.  Daily deaths across the state have dropped from the double digits to just a few.  The percentage of positive tests is now below 5 percent, the magic number indicating the disease is being managed.

by · 06/07/2021 · Comments are Disabled · Andy Brack, Views
A Confederate battle flag flew next to a monument on the Statehouse grounds in 2012, three years before the flag was removed. Via Wikipedia.

BRACK: Throw out the Heritage Act

By Andy Brack, editor and publisher  |  The guy from Long Island smoking a big cigar didn’t think historic statues and memorials should be removed.  To do so would be a way for the present generation to try to whitewash the history of the past — to rid these tributes from the state’s collective conscience and keep people from remembering how things were.

by · 05/31/2021 · Comments are Disabled · Andy Brack, Views
Activists kneeled this week before departing the Charleston County Courthouse during a protest stemming from the in-custody death of Jamal Sutherland.  More.  Charleston City Paper photo by Sam Spence.

BRACK: Legislature needs to get it right on making state, jails safer

By Andy Brack, editor and publisher  |  The white majority in the S.C. General Assembly needs to listen to Black colleagues on this:  It’s critical for them to work together to make sweeping institutional reforms in jails, prisons and among rank-and-file law enforcement authorities. 

Needless deaths, pain and suffering must stop.  

by · 05/24/2021 · Comments are Disabled · Andy Brack, Views
BRACK: Meet South Carolina’s red snowflakes

BRACK: Meet South Carolina’s red snowflakes

By Andy Brack, editor and publisher  |  They don’t want to be told what to do, yet they hold public office to pass laws to let their people do just about whatever they want to do. 

We want to carry guns out in the open, they say.  Get the slowpokes out of the left lane on the interstate.  We ain’t going to wear masks because we don’t believe in them, regardless of what your science says.  We know better than you and we’ve got the power so you can go to hell.

by · 05/17/2021 · Comments are Disabled · Andy Brack, Views
BRACK: Reconsider South Carolina’s death penalty

BRACK: Reconsider South Carolina’s death penalty

By Andy Brack, editor and publisher  |  South Carolina, one of 24 states that continues to allow executions, hasn’t been able to carry one out for the last decade because it hasn’t had access to lethal injection drugs.  Those on death row currently pick whether they want to die by electrocution or lethal injection.  Predictably with the drugs not available, that is the preferred choice, which has ground executions to a halt.

by · 05/10/2021 · Comments are Disabled · Andy Brack, Views
Former Congressman Joe Cunningham kicked off his gubernatorial campaign last week in Charleston.  Photo via the Charleston City Paper.

BRACK: Gubernatorial race kicks into gear early

By Andy Brack, editor and publisher  |  And just as predictable as sunrise, the race to be the next governor of South Carolina is on.  

Former Congressman Joe Cunningham of Charleston, a one-term Democrat who lost a bid for reelection in November, came out of the gate quickly this week to try to nab the seat occupied by GOP Gov. Henry McMaster.

by · 05/03/2021 · Comments are Disabled · Andy Brack, Views