Imagine inviting friends and relatives to visit your home and then they decide to stay. Your home is shrinking as the “visitors” take over.
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster’s appointment of Melanie Barton to lead state education reform efforts clearly indicates the governor’s idea of reform is simply more of the same.
Our state government’s influence on USC’s Board of Trustees should be proportional to the amount of funding the government supplies.
We have a national shortage of physical therapists. Estimates show that by 2025, an additional 27,000 physical therapists will be needed to meet growing demands, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
In response to the Aug. 8 Post and Courier editorial, “What USC trustees should learn from Caslen’s selection as president,” we agree with your statement, “It should never be the job of the hired hands to dictate a school’s president,” the hired hands in this case being Parker Executive Search.
I thank The Post and Courier for running the Aug. 9 article on the extreme heat predicted to increase in South Carolina as a result of our changing climate.
Much thanks to the Post and Courier for the great photo and comments on National Lighthouse Day. We are fortunate to have a supportive local paper and staff who care about our mission of saving the Morris Island Lighthouse.
Doesn’t it strike you as odd that so many people are upset about “illegal workers” at food processing plants in Mississippi?
The Climate Action Summit scheduled for Sept. 23 at the United Nations in New York City will be the most important gathering ever held by the global community to try to effectively combat climate change.
Every place you look, there is condemnation of guns as the cause of violence. Each time there is a mass shooting, the culprit is guns, and a hue and cry rises for taking guns from law-abiding citizens.
Gun reforms futile
In response to a recent letter praising the hiring of a new Santee Cooper CEO, I am amazed that nobody has questioned this strategy.
Since I’ve lived in Charleston, a number of Charleston County School District superintendents have come and gone under acrimonious circumstances. A divisive school board with no appetite for reasoned compromise has often been the reason for such chaos and turnover. I’ve attended school board…
I absolutely believe in the Second Amendment. My problem is the ease with which assault weapons are purchased, or why they are necessary at all.
We have just witnessed yet another act of white nationalist domestic terrorism, this time targeting Hispanics in El Paso Texas. (The facts regarding the second mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, were yet to be revealed).
Proposals to eliminate “the merge” at Old Towne Road and Sam Rittenberg Boulevard in West Ashley are outrageous.
Do we really believe our government can stop Russian interference in our elections when it can’t even stop robocalls?
Remember when the airport was so badly in need of funds that it took away free parking that had been available for handicapped people?
According to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2018, eight children are killed by guns in the United States every day.
In the July 28 Post and Courier column by Brian Hicks about the altercations over selling palmetto roses in the Charleston City Market quotes Dot Scott of the NAACP: “We have to move beyond ‘let’s see how this looks.’ Do the right thing and the people will stand with you.”
The tragedies taking place in the South Carolina prisons and jails are alarming. No one should be dying an unnatural death while incarcerated.
After special counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony July 24, I need either a drink or a lobotomy.
As an outspoken advocate for the collection of scientific data to study the Earth, I was gratified by Bo Peterson’s May 30 story on U.S. Geological Survey’s project to collect geophysical data to study buried faults in South Carolina.
Congratulations and thank you to all those involved in the decision to hire Mark Bonsall as CEO of Santee Cooper. It is a wise and most effective choice.
I am reading retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens’ autobiography, “The Making of a Justice: Reflections on My First 94 Years.”
The intent of the Dutch Dialogues is to go to the root of a community’s philosophy about excess water and its responses to it.
I read the July 18 Post and Courier editorial “South Carolina doesn’t need any new interstates” with great interest and conclude it is spot on.
I first met Molly Greene in 2002. My daughter and I were going on a mission trip to Honduras and I was looking to make our experience as meaningful as possible. A friend of mine recommended talking to Molly before we went, and Molly graciously agreed to meet us at the Water Mission headquart…
An easy ‘no’ vote
I am not a “sky is falling” kind of person, but who in their right mind sells their functional, established stadium before having something signed and sealed (much less a basic handshake deal) for a new or existing stadium, or at least a piece of buildable land?
Have you been to Colonial Lake lately?
It’s a sign of Mark Sanford’s extreme poor judgment that he thinks he is in any way a serious candidate for the highest office in the nation.
Betty Reed is latest winner of the Golden Pen for her June 16 letter urging Lowcountry residents to oppose seismic testing for offshore oil and gas deposits.
On Saturday, Second Presbyterian Church will remember the youngest person lost in the shooting at Emanuel AME Church in 2015.
I tuned into the two Democratic debates on June 26 and 27.
I read the July 8 Post and Courier letter to the editor from a visitor to McLeod Plantation who was disappointed by a presentation perceived as a diatribe filled with personal bias, and I must say, one of us went to the wrong plantation.
There was a recent appalling show of obsequiousness to our adversary by the president of the United States of America.
When you’re a dual resident of South Carolina and New Hampshire, both early primary states, it’s difficult to avoid political news. I hear a lot of it, and much of it sounds the same. But July 10 felt different.
When you’re a dual resident of South Carolina and New Hampshire, both early primary states, it’s difficult to avoid political news. I hear a lot of it, and much of it sounds the same. But July 10 felt different.
Two inches. As I stared at the curb from my car window while stuck in “construction” traffic on Clements Ferry Road, it seemed to me that we were only 2 inches of asphalt away from finishing this project.
I have enjoyed reading the opposing views on the prohibition of marijuana in the letters to the editor section over the years.
Sky wish lanterns, also known as Kongming lanterns, have the potential to cause havoc on our South Carolina shore properties. This “fireball in the sky” has burned marshes, docks, homes, killed livestock and polluted our waterways, streams and oceans. The Boy Scouts of America have banned th…
People are confused. Let’s re-explore the facts concerning the Medal of Honor Museum at Patriots Point. And let’s set the record straight.
On July 12, I finish my tour as commander of the Army Corps of Engineers, Charleston District. My two years have been very fulfilling, both personally and professionally. I am so proud of how district employees positively affect this community with their passion and dedication.
More than 307,000 children in South Carolina who are eligible for free or reduced-price meals during the school year don’t have access to a meals program over the summer.
The Trident CEO Council is a group of two dozen executives from the tri-county region employing in excess of 10,000 associates in the local community, advocating a culture to stand for progress in our Lowcounty region.
Finally, a local representative has said “enough is enough” to development that would “further destroy the pristine beauty of our wetlands,” as reported in the July 3 Post and Courier.
Opinion changes
A remarkable story about sea turtle nesting remains untold.