Charleston Currents

FOCUS: Ways to ensure a summer full of safe, fun swimming

Staff reports | A day of enjoying the sun and swimming may seem relaxing, we have to beware and prepare for the inherent risks of the water.

Charleston County Parks highlights safety is a top priority as 10 people drown unintentionally every day. To ensure a safe summer during the swimming season, the park system has lifeguards at its beach swimming areas and waterparks. Lifeguards undergo extensive education and training on drowning prevention and recognition. The county parks organization employs more than 275 lifeguards per season to ensure guest safety.

While lifeguards are the final link in the chain to prevent drownings, swimmers can do their part to ensure their own safety. Officials recommend following five easy safe swimming tips:

by Charleston Currents · 07/12/2021 · Comments are Disabled · Focus, Good news

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 Andy Brack · 05/24/2021 · Comments are Disabled · Andy Brack, Views

NEW for 5/24: Mapp wins fellowship; Improve jail safety; Piccolo Spoleto

IN THIS EDITION
FOCUS: Charleston Law graduate wins prestigious fellowship
COMMENTARY, Brack: Legislature needs to get it right on making state, jails safer
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: SC Clips
NEWS BRIEFS: Spoleto season starts May 28; Piccolo guide is now online
FEEDBACK: Send us a letter
MYSTERY PHOTO: Familiar archway
CALENDAR: Take the bus to the beach

by Charleston Currents · 05/24/2021 · Comments are Disabled · Full issue

NEW for 3/29: Art walk; Vaccinations and virus; More

IN THIS EDITION
FOCUS: Park Circle Art Walk set for April 10
COMMENTARY, Brack: Vaccinations dampening virus, but pandemic ain’t over yet
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Charleston Gaillard Center
NEWS BRIEFS: Medicaid expansion could help 200,000 get health insurance
FEEDBACK: Dominion knows math on net metering proposal
MYSTERY PHOTO: Natural mystery
CALENDAR: Quiet Edge exhibit at Redux features Dittenber, Fountain

by Charleston Currents · 03/29/2021 · Comments are Disabled · Full issue

9/10: Prepare for storm; Civics education; On the Table ahead

IN T HIS ISSUE OF CHARLESTON CURRENTS:

FOCUS: Batten down the hatches: Get ready for Hurricane Florence
COMMENTARY, Brack: Let’s have a national media campaign on civics
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: SCIWAY
GOOD NEWS: Host an Oct. 4 community-wide civic discussion
FEEDBACK: McMaster should apologize for dog “joke”
MYSTERY PHOTO: Bold, big clouds
S.C. ENCYCLOPEDIA: Hurricanes
CALENDAR: Great week for wining and dining in the Lowcountry

by Andy Brack · 09/10/2018 · Comments are Disabled · Full issue

FOCUS: S.C. gun safety advocacy group seeks middle ground to curb tragedies

By Lindsay Street, via StatehouseReport.com | A gun safety lobbying group founded in 2015 after South Carolina’s mass shooting at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston is still struggling to get lawmakers to listen. On Tuesday in Charleston, they’ll explain what they’re working on to get lawmakers’ attention.

Arm-in-Arm, a South Carolina grassroots group, said it is having trouble despite 2015 and 2016 polls showing more than 80 percent of South Carolinians favor stricter background checks on gun purchases.

“It’s reckless and irresponsible for South Carolina to not have reasonable laws that prevent people from getting guns if they should not have them in the first place,” spokesman Meghan Trezies said. “The biggest battle is to be heard.

by Charleston Currents · 11/13/2017 · Comments are Disabled · Focus, Good news