South Carolina is doing the same thing as Texas, selectively teaching history and social studies to public school students.

Mount Pleasant is getting a self-storage facility on Coleman Boulevard as a direct result of its anti-development policies.

This is the fifth and final excerpt from "In Darkest South Carolina," the new book from Post and Courier columnist Brian Hicks. The story of Charleston Judge J. Waties Waring and his plot that culminated in the Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education, this excerpt recounts the court hearing where the judge set his plans in motion. "In Darkest South Carolina" is available in local book stores, The Post and Courier offices at 134 Columbus St. or from eveningpostbooks.com. Call 843-958-7367 for details.

This is the fourth of five excerpts from "In Darkest South Carolina," the new book from Post and Courier columnist Brian Hicks. The story of Charleston Judge J. Waties Waring and his plot that culminated in the Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education, this excerpt recounts the national controversy that erupts when the judge’s wife attacks the South in a local speech. "In Darkest South Carolina" is available in local book stores, The Post and Courier offices at 134 Columbus St. or from eveningpostbooks.com. Call 843-958-7367 for details.

OK, this may be the stupidest controversy ever.

This is the third of five excerpts from "In Darkest South Carolina," the new book from Post and Courier columnist Brian Hicks. The story of Charleston Judge J. Waties Waring and his plot that culminated in the Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education, this excerpt focuses on a lawsuit that argues black voters should be allowed to vote in the state’s Democratic primary. "In Darkest South Carolina" is available in local book stores, The Post and Courier offices at 134 Columbus St., or from eveningpostbooks.com. Call 843-958-7367 for details.

This is the second of five excerpts from "In Darkest South Carolina," the new book from Post and Courier columnist Brian Hicks. The story of Charleston Judge J. Waties Waring and his plot that culminated in the Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education, this excerpt introduces Charleston as it was trying to refurbish its image — and economy — with a grand world’s fair. "In Darkest South Carolina" is available in local book stores, The Post and Courier offices at 134 Columbus St., or from eveningpostbooks.com. Call 843-958-7367 for details.

This is the first of five excerpts from "In Darkest South Carolina," the new book from Post and Courier columnist Brian Hicks. The story of Charleston Judge J. Waties Waring and his plot that culminated in the Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education, this excerpt opens with the 1950 attack on his home. "In Darkest South Carolina" is available in local book stores, The Post and Courier offices at 134 Columbus St. or from eveningpostbooks.com. Call 843-958-7367 for details.

Even if South Carolina largely dodges the Florence bullet, the state is still on the firing line. It's time to quit ignoring the real problems.

For the city of Charleston, all this practice with tropical storms has built an efficient emergency management system.

It can be maddening to bet your life on a squiggly line.

Nikki Haley, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, earlier this week hinted she’s bringing the U.N. Security Council to visit Charleston in September.

In this installment of “Poor Lindsey Graham,” the senator tries in vain to make the far right fall in love with him.

A College of Charleston astrophysicist has discovered that a collapsing star emits the power to turn back time.

So, some folks are opposed to naming the new North Charleston library after Mayor Keith Summey. Didn’t have to be Nostradamus to see this coming.

The video is violent and disturbing.

Apparently, Katie Arrington’s congressional campaign forgot to send out her statement condemning the recent murder of a pregnant Colorado woman and her two children.

Berkeley County's plan for a recreation taxing district may raise the ire of people who believe better fire service is more important.

The fake Facebook page for the Charleston County Republican Party went too far. But, accidentally or not, it also echoed a few private concerns of some GOP faithful.

At least the 2018 South Carolina governor’s race has finally gotten interesting, writes columnist Brian Hicks.

If you tell a dozen people that “Gone with the Wind” was filmed at the Calhoun Mansion, half of ‘em will believe you.

So, it turns out SCE&G didn’t really squander $2 billion of customer money on those scuttled nuclear power plants.

You can’t get this on Amazon.

We need to trademark "this Charleston thing" and make good use of it.

The Town of Mount Pleasant is having legal trouble of its own making. Maybe time to change the rules?

Two teenagers were shot and killed at a Charleston apartment complex last Sunday, a tragedy that capped a week of crime in the city’s largest suburb.

So, some folks want to abolish Charleston’s palmetto rose program — for the kids.

See if this sounds familiar.

Poor South Carolina Democrats.

So much winning.

Somebody is finally listening to West Ashley, and there’s no telling what they might hear.

More than two-dozen men barged into the Pickens County jail one morning in 1947, carrying shotguns and demanding the old man on duty turn over Willie Earle.

Just a few months ago, a Florida parent asked her local school district to ban a book on her daughter’s middle school reading list.

It was the 4th of July and they were celebrating it in a Florida prison.

Don’t spend that $22 a month just yet, SCE&G customers.

It isn’t the governor’s fault that Interstate 526 is still a dead-end road — but now it is his problem.

To: The 58 people sworn in as U.S. citizens at Middleton Place on Tuesday.

In at least one way, South Carolina’s climate has changed noticeably.

So, the Republican primary runoff for governor has apparently come down to a race between Donald Trump and Nikki Haley.

Mount Pleasant, take a tip from West Ashley: Don’t let this Highway 41 decision linger.

Something doesn’t add up here.

Anyone who didn’t see that bus coming Tuesday apparently doesn’t look both ways before crossing the street.

James Island has always been an odd hamlet, in the most Shakespearean sense of the word.

We need a plan, something cheap yet effective to steer these folks elsewhere. We need to start promoting other states.

West Ashley is slow to embrace optimism.

These are just a few of the things South Carolina governor candidates have promised to do this year.

See if you can spot the exact moment this train went off the rails.

City Council, in order to ensure the health and vitality of all its citizens, has voted to ban smoking in public parks effective Jan. 1, 2019.