CALENDAR: City to hold 2 more holiday market weekends; Free parking
Staff reports | The city of Charleston will hold its holiday market in Marion Square on the next two Saturdays (Dec. 12, 19) and Sundays (Dec. 13, 20) from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Staff reports | The city of Charleston will hold its holiday market in Marion Square on the next two Saturdays (Dec. 12, 19) and Sundays (Dec. 13, 20) from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
IN THIS ISSUE
FOCUS: Protect your pets during cold weather
COMMENTARY, Brack: Legislature needs to wake up on environment
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Magnolia Plantation and Gardens
NEWS BRIEFS: 39th Southeastern Wildlife Expo set for Feb. 11-14
FEEDBACK: Send us your thoughts
MYSTERY PHOTO: Hers, not his
CALENDAR: City to hold two more holiday market weekends; Free parking
By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | Friends make our lives richer. They open new worlds and ideas. But they’re so familiar and comfortable that you kind of want them to never change and always be there.
Two longtime friends, cookbook author and foodie rock star Nathalie Dupree and historian husband Jack Bass, are leaving Charleston soon to live closer to family in North Carolina. I don’t want them to go, but at the same time, I’m happy they are embracing a change.
Unfortunately, our state’s leader, Gov. Henry McMaster, has taken a course in denial about the threats from coronavirus from his crony, President Trump. The GOP-run legislature is no better at protecting life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Instead, it twiddles as more people die and get the virus.
“We really don’t have any leadership,” said state Sen. Brad Hutto, an Orangeburg Democrat who is the new Senate minority leader. “The governor is in line with Trump. There’s no leadership at DHEC [the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control] and the legislature has abandoned the field.
Staff reports | Photographs by Dawnita Hall of North Charleston and paintings by Susan Irish of Charleston will be on display at the City of North Charleston’s Park Circle Gallery throughout December. The concurrent solo exhibitions are free and open to the public.
By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | Just look at what happened in neighboring Georgia and you can see that Democrats have the keys to win big elections. But in South Carolina, they haven’t turned on the engine.
Instead, they lost a U.S. Senate race as well as down-ballot contests for Statehouse and municipal positions in what was supposed to be the year of the blue wave. It was, at best, a ripple as state and local elections were nationalized so much that you’d think House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate leader Chuck Schumer lived in the Palmetto State.
By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | It can be argued that without South Carolina, Biden wouldn’t be president-elect.
In February, he won the Democratic presidential primary in South Carolina. It was his first big win that preceded a string of wins built on the strong backing of U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn, the Palmetto State’s kingmaker. Clyburn’s endorsement of Biden in late February is widely viewed as the key to Biden’s win here, which was key to securing the nomination.
But much earlier, the late U.S. Sen. Fritz Hollings, who was chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in 1972, tapped Biden as the Democrat for Washington senators to support in the Delaware race for U.S. Senate. Then 29, Biden was a county councilman and unknown to many.
“He ended up taking a chance on me,” Biden said in April 2019 at Hollings’ funeral.
By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | There’s a guy over in Hartsville who you can bet on to give you a good laugh, particularly if you like politics. The good news: His humor works for Republicans, Democrats and anybody who loves Dollar General, lard and Bea Arthur as Maude.
Just about every day, he’ll bring a smile to your face on Facebook through some wry observation, witticism or old-school joke that evokes the clean humor and one-liners of Jack Benny, Bob Hope, Steven Wright and Bob Newhart.
IN THIS EDITION
TODAY’S FOCUS: South Carolina played key role in Biden victory
COMMENTARY, Brack: Meet the Hartsville man who can make you laugh
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Morris Financial Concepts, Inc.
NEWS BRIEFS: Statehouse will be different for Dems in 2021
FEEDBACK: Send us your thoughts
MYSTERY PHOTO: Orange archway
CALENDAR: City Paper to offer 2020 SUCKS virtual concert with McCain, Hall
By Tom Ervin, special to Charleston Currents | Two Fridays ago, I stood in line for almost three hours to vote. It was heartwarming!
A young mother pushed a double stroller holding her twins and carried a third baby tucked in her backpack. Many elderly voters waited patiently in line while leaning on their walkers. Several voters arrived in wheelchairs. College students were voting with their parents.
Although the line wrapped all the way around the parking lot at the Greer Recreation Center, everyone was smiling and talking. Almost everyone wore masks and exercised social distancing. Several of us pleaded with a poll worker to move the young mother with her three small children to the front of the line. When he agreed, everyone cheered. Another woman passed out bottles of water to strangers. These folks were demonstrating their love of freedom and democracy. They were determined that their voices would be heard.
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