Metro by Ken Burger
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KEN BURGER: After 40 years, it's time to exhale
The first day I walked into a newsroom I inhaled the smells of hot type, glue pots, printer's ink, newsprint, pencil shavings and that sensuous scent of urgency that singed the air with excitement.
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Award-winning columnist Ken Burger to retire
Ken Burger, who joined The Post and Courier in 1984 and has served the newspaper as an award-winning Washington correspondent, executive sports editor and metro columnist, is retiring. His final column will appear Sunday -- only in the newspaper's print edition.
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BURGER COLUMN: Back when the mail mattered
I can only imagine how her fingers trembled when she opened the mailbox and found a hand- written letter from halfway around the world.
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KEN BURGER: The joy of direct flights
There was a time when we had to change planes to get to heaven or hell. At least that's what old timers in the Lowcountry said for many years when Delta Airlines held Charleston travelers hostage to their infamous hub system of air travel.
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KEN BURGER: Looking for answer in a song
You can write a newspaper column every day for 20 years and get a paycheck every other Friday.
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KEN BURGER: Meeting Street spot the next creative hub?
There's a strip joint down the street, a tattoo parlor nearby and you can get body piercings around the corner. But that's part of what makes 1600 Meeting St. the perfect incubator for creativity.
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KEN BURGER: So, what's your story, stranger?
I'm a nosy individual. I ask a lot of questions. It comes with the job. I've been a reporter so long, I think nothing of walking up to strangers and asking them where they're from, how they got here, where they grew up, if they're married, have children, what their parents did for a livin...
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KEN BURGER: Campers heed the call of the wild
Do you know the difference between a pintail and a mallard, a copperhead and a cottonmouth? Twelve-year-old Noble Golding of Mount Pleasant does. So do Cooper Snow and his older brothers, Preston and J.R., of Edisto Island.
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BURGER COLUMN: Making do with what you have
HOLLYWOOD - Fire Chief Doc Matthews and two of his staff members share a 40-square-foot office from which he is responsible for 465 square miles of Charleston County.
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KEN BURGER: 'Be sweet' good advice for anyone
I wonder if obnoxious people think the rest of us are suckers. Do they think our pleasant dispositions, our generosity, our sincere caring, our willingness to help, our genuine interest in our fellow human beings is somehow an invitation for abuse?
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KEN BURGER: Where have you gone, Jonas Salk?
There was a time in this country when we got things done. I mean really big, important things. When Germany and Japan threatened the free world, this nation went from zero-to-victory in four short years, winning a two-front, global war with an all-out effort of government and everyday citizens shouldering the load.
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KEN BURGER: Getting a glimpse of the dream
Crowfield is living the rock and roll dream, gigging at a recording studio one afternoon, playing hot spots on the weekend. The Charleston-based band is about to debut its second album, "Crowfield," Saturday night at the Music Farm, a benchmark that most would consider a major rung on the ladder to success.
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BURGER COLUMN: Forgetting what to remember
I don't remember when I started to forget. Somewhere north of 50, I realized I couldn't remember more than two things my wife asked me to pick up at the grocery store.
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‘I couldn’t take losing them both’
Patrick Rein smoked several cigarettes and never removed his dark sunglasses as we talked. Granted, it was not an easy conversation.
Just over a month ago, his fiancee, Elizabeth Gause, and her father were killed in a traffic accident near Charleston as the family was en route to Rein’s graduation at The Citadel.
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BURGER COLUMN: A country boy plays the Piccolo
When I was a kid, the movie theater in my hometown had the words "Opening Soon" on the marquee for 10 years. But it never did.
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Ken Burger
Ken Burger retired from The Post and Courier in July 2011.
Ken Burger is a native of Allendale, S.C., and a graduate of the University of Georgia. He joined The Post and Courier in 1984 and served as the paper's Washington, D.C., correspondent in the mid-1980s. From 1988 until 2008, Burger was executive sports editor and wrote an award-winning sports column. He was hailed as one of the country's best sports columnist by the Associated Press three times. He won numerous writing awards in South Carolina and was honored as S.C. Journalist of the Year in 1996. Burger published his first novel, "Swallow Savannah," in 2008, and his second novel "Sister Santee" in 2010. He began writing a metro column for The Post and Courier in January 2009.
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