Friday Edition
February 22, 2019 — Your curated Friday edition made by humans, not machines.
The Citadel's new president, retired Gen. Glenn Walters, announced a step away from tradition at the school: By the 2020-21 school year, rising sophomore cadets will be assigned to a different company than the one they were in freshman year. Read more
Friday afternoon headlines
North Charleston police say a person opened fire inside a store at Northwoods Mall on Friday afternoon, prompting a heavy police presence in the area. Read more
The Medical University of South Carolina is looking to further extend its reach into rural areas, saying Friday it has struck an agreement to replace two ailing health care centers in the Pee Dee with a new $50 million hospital. Read more
EcoVest Capital Inc., a company that federal authorities say created $2 billion in fraudulent tax breaks from conserving land across the Southeast, was active around the Myrtle Beach area and other parts of South Carolina. Read more
The political conversation
Ivanka Trump, the daughter of President Donald Trump, offered her endorsement Friday for the Clemson University student government ticket that includes Rena Haley, the daughter of former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley. Read more
Republican Katie Arrington's TV swipe at Mark Sanford telling him to "Take a Hike" was named one of the best political ads in the country. Read more
sports analysis
How are the greatest high school basketball players in Lowcountry history. Here's The Post and Courier's Top-10 list. Read more
Latest Posts
paying for childcare
I didn't know what to pay a babysitter, so I did what any sane person would do: Made a spreadsheet with 1,500 entries to find average and median pay rates across the tricounty area. Read more
development news
Struggling supermarket chain Southeastern Grocers confirmed a new round of closings Thursday, including its last Bi-Lo store in Mount Pleasant and nine others across South Carolina. Read more
Local News
Brandon Dashaun Olumide Simmons, a 19-year-old Stuart Street resident, and Samuel Redante White, a 27-year-old Sallie Street resident, each face one count of murder, said Charles Francis, a Charleston Police Department spokesman. Simmons also faces one count of possession of a firearm during the commission of a violent crime.
The site would be the new home for the county's emergency management department and dozens of agency heads who currently cram inside a 1,300 square-foot command room during hurricanes, floods and ice storms and make decisions about disaster preparedness and recovery.
A Florida-based supermarket chain is adding three more organic stores, including a second one in South Carolina. Read more
An abandoned recycling center with a million scrap tires representing fire and health hazards will be cleaned up more than a year ahead of schedule, Berkeley County officials said Friday. Read more
Passengers on a 787-10 Dreamliner flight this week were worried that as they watched a movie on the plane's in-flight entertainment system, someone somewhere might have been watching them. Read more
The Medical University of South Carolina is looking to further extend its reach into rural areas, saying Friday it has struck an agreement to replace two ailing health care centers in the Pee Dee with a new $50 million hospital. Read more
Shares of A.P. Moller-Maersk, the world's biggest shipping company and the largest operating at the Port of Charleston, plunged Thursday after it warned of the commercial damage it would suffer from a U.S. escalation in the trade war with China. Read more
The S.C. Senate formed its own Santee Cooper sale study committee on Thursday, the latest sign that deciding the future of the state-owned utility will not happen quickly. Read more
Ivanka Trump, the daughter of President Donald Trump, offered her endorsement Friday for the Clemson University student government ticket that includes Rena Haley, the daughter of former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley. Read more
Ivanka Trump, the daughter of President Donald Trump, offered her endorsement Friday for the Clemson University student government ticket that includes Rena Haley, the daughter of former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley. Read more
Republican Katie Arrington's TV swipe at Mark Sanford telling him to "Take a Hike" was named one of the best political ads in the country. Read more
Emanuel AME Church was the backdrop for a press conference Thursday by advocates hoping to close the so-called "Charleston loophole." Read more
Under the initiative, which went into law as part of the tax overhaul that Congress passed in 2017, states can choose a certain number of areas in the state considered "distressed" to receive tax incentives that encourage businesses to make long-term investments in low-income communities. Read more
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SC Rep. Jim Clyburn says bill closing 'Charleston loophole' will pass the House
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Hicks column: Don't mind Lindsey, he's just herding the flock ... and keeping his job
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Former Wando, NFL star Dexter Coakley part of 2019 SC Athletic Hall of Fame class
Mount Pleasant native and former Wando High standout Dexter Coakley is part of a seven-member class that will be enshrined this year into the South Carolina Athletic Hall of Fame. Read more
Latest posts in sports
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Chicago Fire midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger, who was the captain of the German national team, believes that Major League Soccer will become a better league when the best American players will remain in the United States. Read more
South Carolina is being talked about as the season moves toward the NCAA tournament. Read more
Former Citadel basketball coach Chuck Driesell gets credit for recruiting all-Southern Conference pick Zane Najdawi to the military school. Read more
From Charleston Receipts to the Potlikker Papers, these are the books our food critic recommends to a newcomer to understand food in the Holy City. Read more
Recent Reviews
When Theresa Jenkins Hilliard inherited her aunt’s recipe collection, she thought the painstakingly assembled almanac of dishes served to a New York City executive’s family over nearly half a century would make a nice heirloom book for her children. Her two daughters and son thought otherwise. Read more
Revival, the 8-month-old restaurant at The Vendue, will continue to emphasize “modern Southern cuisine” following the departure of its opening chef, a spokeswoman says. Read more
Q: I was wondering if you know if anyone ever got the recipe for Robert's of Charleston's "Robert's Original Seasoning Spice?" Read more
Buying knives for an engaged couple is considered such a sure way to break up a marriage that gift givers who buck superstition tape pennies to their blades so recipients can symbolically pay for the houseware of doom. But there are no similar folk beliefs about mandolines, the paddle-like s… Read more
Given the past few tumultuous years for South Carolina’s electric utilities one lesson seems more pertinent now than ever: The more sunshine, the better. Read more
Conservatives who want to shrink government are despairing over the debt-fueled Washington spend-fest. They tend to blame out-of-touch leadership for the failure to cut spending, but public opinion is likely the real culprit. Turn north and look at the ongoing budget fight in Alaska to see why. Read more
From Folly Gras to a concert by '90s favorites the Gin Blossoms, here's how to spend your weekend. Read more
Harry Potter fans will have the chance to take the hogwarts express back to the wizarding world this weekend as the Harry Potter film concert series produced by CineConcerts returns to Charleston with the third installment, The Prisoner of Azkaban. Read more
Even the most eccentric passions of working-class England, long a favored reservoir of feel-good underdog tales, have seldom featured as much spandex as "Fighting With My Family."
Born in the 3-D land rush, "How to Train Your Dragon" has never quite shrugged off the bland corporate sheen attached to it from the start. But almost a decade since taking flight in 2010, these movies have made up for their lack of fire with enough sincerity and genuine sense of wonder to s… Read more
