Brian Hicks
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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.
Recent Stories
Musical bolt from the blue
Sometime during the Citadel-Wofford game on Saturday, folks in the stands will be serenaded by piano music from the heavens. In more ways than one.
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Letting Fox News set agenda
So the people at Fox News say they now know where the Guantanamo Bay detainees (read: suspected terrorists) "could be going."
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Letters illuminate first search for the Hunley
In the fall of 1864, a U.S. Navy officer serving in the blockade of Charleston set out on a quest that would consume some men for more than a century.
He wanted to find the H.L. Hunley.
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Welcome to town, Boeing
It never fails. Anytime something good happens to you, there's always somebody trying to put it down. Right now, people in Seattle are upset that Boeing's second Dreamliner assembly line is coming to North Charleston, a $750 million investment that is supposed to create 3,800 jobs.
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Where did Citadel's values go?
On Friday, 367 seniors were given one of the highest honors a cadet can receive from The Citadel.
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Isn't the first 'R' reading?
So the Charleston County School Board is considering a new policy that says its No. 1 goal should be cranking out literate students. That's wonderful, practically visionary. There's just one question: What's their No. 1 goal right now?
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The irresistible lure of the sea
Van Liew returning to around-the-world solo sailing competition
Brad Van Liew was sailing alone, fighting 20-foot waves at the bottom of the world, days from Cape Horn or any other human being, when he decided to give it up.
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Remember Yorktown — now
Next time you're on the bridge to Mount Pleasant, take a second to glance over at the Yorktown.
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State holding on to towns' funds
Officials have not filed audit reports due July 31
The state is holding up more than $89,000, roughly one-tenth of St. Stephen 's budget, because the town is three months late filing its 2008 financial audit.
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Legislature needs to fix this
Right now, there are thousands of people in South Carolina about to be kicked to the curb, literally and figuratively. They lost their jobs in the spring, maybe even last year, on account of the economy. Now they can't find work.
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