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Newer stories | Older stories Brian Hicks
Latest South Carolina HeadlinesLatest HeadlinesWe need to ante up to get reformFriday, July 10, 2009
Let's get this straight: The guy who police say killed 15-year-old Jermel Tyler Brown was out on bail after he was arrested in the rape of an 8-year-old boy. What? Read story. Litterers have done it this timeWednesday, July 8, 2009
We've got a trash problem on Folly Beach. Not the beer cans and chicken boxes and coolers left lying in the sand over the weekend — no, the real trash is the people who carried in all that crap and left it lying there. Read story. The big question: What next?Sunday, July 5, 2009
All's quiet on the beach front. The national media circus has left town, at least temporarily, and Gov. Mark Sanford is out of the state again — we checked with SLED to make sure. Read story. It's time to drop tired, empty ideaFriday, July 3, 2009
Finally, someone has addressed the elephant in the room. Last weekend Sen. Lindsey Graham veered off his talking points on NBC's "Meet the Press," where he appeared with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, to talk about Gov. Mark Sanford's extramarital affair. When asked if Republicans could still claim to be the party of "family values" (whatever those are), Romney spewed the usual political gibberish. Read story. Sanford — resignation by mediaWednesday, July 1, 2009
Gov. Mark Sanford says his mistress is his soul mate, but he's trying to fall back in love with his wife. He admits he has "crossed lines" with other women, but never had sex with them. Read story. Scandal comes as a shockFriday, June 26, 2009
OK, so it was much ado about something after all. It looked kind of petty when state officials griped that they couldn't get Gov. Mark Sanford on the phone, when it appeared he took off without his handlers for a hike to clear his head. Read story. Much ado about nothingWednesday, June 24, 2009
So the people who have been trying to run Mark Sanford out of the state are upset because he left. They are mad the governor is driving a government car, yet they hand out take-home Fords to bureaucrats like they're Halloween candy. Read story. Town can profit off of identityFriday, June 19, 2009
Poor Mount Pleasant is having an identity crisis. Town officials are planning to spend $100,000 to have some fancy Tennessee firm tell them who they are, town-wise. They call it "branding," which is only metaphorically similar to the act of sticking a hot poker on the backside of a live cow. Read story. Tags say it all ... and very littleWednesday, June 17, 2009
Just about the time they got the lines moving at the DMV, the Legislature started adding all these specialty license plates to the menu. Now you've got more options for your bumper than toppings for a Subway club. Read story. Lessons abound in city's atticFriday, June 12, 2009
June Murray Wells walks among the ghosts of Charleston past. She spends her days in a room surrounded by artifacts and relics of this city's most dramatic — and tragic — years. Her constant companions are priceless pieces of history: a lithograph of the signed articles of secession, the first rifled cannon made in the South, the first Confederate flag to fly over Fort Sumter. And the last. Read story. The high price of higher edWednesday, June 10, 2009
It's time to play the South Carolina Education Tuition Lottery, where you find out how much more it's going to cost to send your kid to college this year. Read story. Sanford philosophy a bit murkyFriday, June 5, 2009
So, Gov. Mark Sanford vetoed the Legislature's payday lending regulations, a rather mild bill that put minimal requirements on legalized loan-sharking. That's not surprising — the Gov loves his veto pen. What's interesting is his reason. Read story. Ford's heart in right placeWednesday, June 3, 2009
Some guy spotted Robert Ford at the outlet mall the other day, and decided to give the senator a piece of his mind. Read story. One church making a differenceFriday, May 29, 2009
A lot of people would think it's no big deal. Not too long ago, God's House of Worship — a storefront, non-denominational church on Dorchester Road — took a bus load of neighborhood kids to James Island County Park for the day. Read story. Are we fat, drunk and stupid?Wednesday, May 27, 2009
A new study from MUSC says people in this country aren't as healthy as they were 20 years ago. In related news, 33 percent of Americans under 25 didn't realize Red Bull is not a vegetable. Read story. Newer stories | Older stories |
Brian Hicks is a senior writer with The Post and Courier. In his 10
years with the paper, he has covered a wide variety of subjects,
including politics and news of the weird (also known as politics). His
reporting has won 20 S.C. Press Association Awards, including Journalist
of the Year in 1998. He is also the author or co-author of four books,
including the local history yarn "Raising the Hunley," which was so
popular it was even translated into Czechoslovakian. Really. 