Staff reports | U.S. Sen. Tim Scott, a Charleston County Republican, now has two Democrats running to snare his seat — second-term state Rep. Krystle Matthews and Spartanburg County Democratic Party chair Angela Geter.
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FOCUS: Charleston County’s Willtown tract gets permanent protection
COMMENTARY, Brack: Reconsider South Carolina’s death penalty
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Magnolia Plantation and Gardens
NEWS BRIEFS: Scott draws two Democratic challengers
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CALENDAR: Best of Charleston issue to hit the streets Wednesday
By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | So what’s a Republican U.S. senator from South Carolina supposed to do to keep MAGA-hat conservatives mollified? Particularly after voting against President Trump during certification of the presidential election that led a mob to storm the Capitol?
THE GIANT LIVES. You can still find some of these old stickers on the backs of street signs around Charleston. Not sure what it is? Send us an email to learn more: editor@charlestoncurrents.com. FOCUS: Charleston has some really bad drivers, study says COMMENTARY, Brack: Scott may face 2022 challenge from his own party IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Magnolia Plantation and Gardens […]
By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | “Lynching” is a word that should be discarded from political discourse, especially throughout the South where thousands died from racial terror after the Civil War.
President Trump, now under intense scrutiny in a growing impeachment inquiry by the U.S. House of Representatives, tweeted in a diatribe in the wee hours of Oct. 22 that “All Republicans must remember what they are witnessing here – a lynching.”
No, Mr. President. You’re wrong. You are not being lynched. You are not being physically ripped from the White House, bundled up ropes and taken by a mob for execution by shooting, hanging, burning or something as horrible.
What is happening, sir, is that you are facing the very process you deny is happening – due process required by the Constitution to investigate whether you and your administration violated the law in discussions with a foreign country. For the U.S. House – Democrats and Republicans – to do less is for them to abrogate their sworn duty.
By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | In 1975, the rock group War released a popular song titled “Why can’t we be friends.” It wasn’t complicated. The title was repeated a lot between various couplets, including this one: “The color of your skin don’t matter to me; As long as we can live in harmony.”
Forty-three years later, two South Carolina Republican members of Congress released a book on friendship that for all intents and purposes reiterates a similar theme.
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MYSTERY PHOTO: Gold top
FOCUS: Interstate 526 completion isn’t actionable plan, but smoky scheme
COMMENTARY, Brack: S.C. friendship touted in new book isn’t all that unlikely
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Magnolia Plantation and Gardens
CAREERS, Fanning: Video on how to stop wasting time
GOOD NEWS: New education report seeks to provoke education change
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S.C. ENCYCLOPEDIA: Mill villages in South Carolina
CALENDAR, April 9+: Beers with dogs and books, more
By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | Perhaps the best job in the world for anyone passionate about policy and politics is to be a United States senator.
It pays well. You get to travel. You become part of an exclusive club where you can actually do big, meaningful things. You learn about a lot of different topics. And it can be a special kind of wonky fun, despite long hours, politicking, fund-raising and endless meetings.
By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | News that President-elect Donald Trump is considering S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley and Lt. Gov. Henry McMaster for prominent roles in his administration highlights how we need to start thinking now about who we want to lead South Carolina in the future.
With the 2016 elections over, Haley is considered a lame duck as her second term as governor ends in two years. As a rising minority star in the Republican party, it’s natural that Trump’s team would look for a big role for Haley, who met Thursday with Trump for what was called “a good discussion,” by a spokesman.
Staff reports | Chase After a Cure presented a check for $100,000 to pediatric oncologist Dr. Jacqueline Kraveka and her team at the Medical University of South Carolina Children’s Hospital on Sept. 26. Each September during Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, the local organization presents MUSC with a check for money raised over the course of the last year to support pediatric cancer research.
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