Charleston Currents – 2015

BRACK: Legislature needs more strategic, long-term thinking

By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | Parents routinely tell their children to be smart about how they act. The state needs to take the same advice.

Case in point: South Carolina’s energy policy. Since the early 1990s, the state of South Carolina has actually had a policy to set a comprehensive state energy plan. But it’s been pretty toothless — a plan in name only, with all sorts of nice-sounding 00_icon_brackgoals that don’t hold policymakers or anybody accountable.

by Andy Brack · 12/07/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Andy Brack, Views

PALMETTO POEM: The Christmas Apron

By Marjory Wentworth, contributing editor

Unfolding my grandmother’s apron, tucked
deep in a box of Christmas decorations,
I rub my hands across the wrinkled
cream colored cloth as thin as gauze
and the bright red and blue boxes circling
the hem and see her standing at the stove
wearing her Christmas apron, stirring pots
on every burner, a turkey already roasting
in the oven, plates of gingerbread men
cooling on the counter.

by Palmetto Poem · 12/07/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Features, Palmetto Poem

GOOD NEWS: Pinckney, Haley, Riley to be honored by Institute

Staff reports | The Riley Institute at Furman University in January will honor the late state Sen. Clementa Pinckney, the pastor slain in June with eight worshippers in Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, with the David H. Wilkins Award for Excellence in Legislative Leadership, the Institute has announced.

Also to be recognized with the Wilkins Award for Excellence in Civic Leadership are S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley and outgoing Charleston Mayor Joe Riley, both of whom will speak at the event and discuss their collaboration during the crisis involving the deaths the Emanuel Nine.

by Charleston Currents · 12/07/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Good news, News briefs

MYSTERY: Maritime pastoral

Boy, howdy — doesn’t this maritime scene feel peaceful as all get-out? But where is it? Give us a guess and we’ll take a drink of Christmas cheer on your behalf (for each correct guess?) Send your guess to: editor@charlestoncurrents.com– and make sure to include the name of the town in which you live.

by Charleston Currents · 12/07/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos