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Keep collegeadmissionsin context
BY GENE A. BUDIG and ALAN HEAPS Many high school seniors, along with their parents, are currently on tenterhooks, anxiously scrutinizing their incoming e-mails and letters. They are in the midst of the college admission season, that annual rite of spring when students learn whethe...
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Past success guides County Council's future course
Since I was elected Charleston County Council Chairman in January of 2009, I have enjoyed the opportunity to hold a leadership position on council in order to serve the citizens of this great county. All nine of your council member...
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Two local parking proposals are all wet
The Charleston peninsula was once flanked by the Cooper and Ashley rivers. Now it's flanked by the Cooper River and an ever-growing boat parking lot.
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Jimmie Hazzard lived up to 'Greatest Generation' billing
Last Saturday, James Daughtridge Hazzard's family and friends buried him after a nice family-and-friends funeral at Georgetown's Prince George's Winyah Episcopal Church.
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It's not mathematics, it's ideology
The Bureau of Labor Statistics gave a broad boost to President Barack Obama's quest for a second term a week or so ago when it announced a 0.2 percent drop in the nation's unemployment rate. That rate is now the lowest since February 2009, and the president was quick to take credit for it.
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Komen Lowcountry uses donations locally
Komen Lowcountry's mission is to reduce the barriers to breast health care and treatment for men and women in our local communities. Our most vulnerable and underserved populations face obstacles every day that many cannot even imagine.
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N. Charleston police persist in profiling
North Charleston Police Chief Jon Zumalt took the leadership of the Charleston Branch NAACP to task in The Post and Courier of Feb. 2 for criticizing "tactics" used by the NCPD in certain neighborhoods and stated that the time had come to "set the record straight."
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City fixes policy on crime reports
We are extremely proud of the more than 50 percent decrease in violent crime in the City of Charleston since 2007. This is a huge achievement and a tribute to the leadership of Chief Greg Mullen and the hard work of the fine officers of the City of Charleston Police Department.
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Connecting a key route for bicyclists
I had drive to James Island to run an errand quite early one day last month, and when I returned I got caught in what must be a regular traffic jam -- commuters heading over the James Island connector to their jobs on the peninsula. At 8:30, it had backed up well onto the highest point of the spa...
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S.C.'s most essential job is boosting employment numbers
A job is a very personal thing, especially if you don't have one or you're worried about the one you have. And in South Carolina, too many are unemployed and under-employed and anxiously employed.
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Setting North Charleston's police record straight
In 2006 North Charleston was identified as the seventh most violent city in the United States. We experienced 28 murders that year. In 2007, 26 people were murdered. This epidemic of black-on-black violence was devastating to our city, its communities, and the families of the victims. Something had to change.
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The ends can't always justify police means
I've grown accustomed to familiar responses when I share my opinions in The Post and Courier. Someone in my congregation or community will invariably tell me, "Thanks for saying what I'd like to say." When I suggest that they could say it as well as I do, they decline and say that they can't do so for fear of the loss of their jobs or of other retribution and prefer that I speak instead.
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How to create the purr-fect candidate
I’ve been watching too many Republican presidential debates. Dozing through one of them the other night I had a dream, a dream about the perfect candidate for president of the United States, leader of the Free World, and commander in chief of the Armed Forces.
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DeMint wrong on gay rights
In a Human Rights Day speech in Geneva last month, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton placed the treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people worldwide within the broader international framework of universal human rights.
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Casinos area sure bet for Jasper
Citizens in Jasper County and other parts of the Lowcountry are telling us, "This is our time. This is our opportunity. We must prevail."
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