Government shouldn't be in the utilities business, but it's probably better to keep Santee Cooper out of the hands of investor-owned public companies.

Everybody says they want permanent daylight saving time. But what will they say when it's dark until 8:30 some mornings?

Local cities want citizens to report their stolen guns, but the state may not let them.

But as the thermometer hit 75, rumors surfaced that the town — where costs are rising faster than revenue, and the mercury — didn’t need any snowplows.

Earmarks aren't a big problem in South Carolina. Losing them would be ...

Coming off what he considers a successful 2019, the Charleston County Council chairman plans to settle all family business this year.

This helpful Q&A reveals all about the Real ID, or at least why South Carolina is one of the last states in the Union to comply with a federal law...

What's scarier than "Carrie," "Cujo" and "The Shining? The Homeowners' Association with unchecked power.

We can't ignore the Census this year, even if the numbers suggest we owe Ohio an apology.

The North Carolina Legislatures continues to make South Carolina look like a bastion of fairness.

A look back at 2019, a seriously flawed reboot of 2018.

He might ride a Harley and lead a procession of gift-filled SUVs to the Fisher House, bringing a little Christmas spirit to families who have loved ones in the local VA hospital.

"First in the South: Why South Carolina's Presidential Primary Matters" reveals why the state has an outsized effect on who wins the White House.

Charleston has won a national award ... for cleaning up horse manure.

Nikki Haley doesn't do anything by accident, especially revising history.

Some state lawmakers, even those who are otherwise relatively sane, say an extensive knowledge of the law isn’t a requirement for a good judge. Perhaps they’re projecting.

The next Baxter-Patrick James Island branch is more than a library. It's a community gathering place, and a history museum.

When Chief Eddie Driggers retired, Mayor Keith Summey had the brilliant idea to forego a national search and instead promote Burgess. He was a great pick. Which is why Gov. Henry McMaster last week nominated him to lead the state Department of Public Safety.

Keith Waring, the only City Council incumbent to survive a challenge from one of the group’s candidates, says local politicians should take heed.

It’s too bad Graham’s up for reelection at the same time as the president because our senior senator keeps getting dragged into national affairs. These days, he catches grief wherever he goes — just for trying to keep his job in trying times.

A bipartisan group of state lawmakers says South Carolina should have harsher prison sentences for hate crimes. And Wendell Gilliard says, “Why didn’t I think of that?”

John Tecklenburg proved he was not simply the next guy in line to be Charleston's mayor.

Nancy Mace is shocked — shocked — that a bunch of durn Democrats are digging into her past.

The Charleston County School Board's "mission critical" initiatives may not fix local schools. But then, we'll never know for sure ...

Dominion Energy is making it easy for everyone to stay hot this winter.

The Charleston mayor's race is nonpartisan for a very good reason. It needs to stay that way.

Mark Sanford will return ... whether we want him to or not.

Former Vice President Joe Biden is leading South Carolina polls for one very important reason.

Mark Hamill, better known as Luke Skywalker, basically endorsed South Carolina Democratic Senate candidate Jaime Harrison in a Tuesday afternoon tweet … while throwing some fairly serious shade at our senior senator.

Local elections are at least as important as national elections, even if they aren't as entertaining ... or infuriating. So go vote on Nov. 5.

Dorchester County residents and businesses are fighting back against groups trying to undermine referendums to build more parks and libraries.

Some Benedict College grads weren’t thrilled to see their alma mater host President Donald Trump on campus last week.

Some Sullivan's Island residents can't see the beauty of a maritime forest for the trees. 

The International African American Museum is perhaps the greatest legacy Joe Riley will leave to Charleston.

Our past legislative chickens have come home to roost in South Carolina's interstate overload crisis.

Historian Nic Butler's Charleston Time Machine shows just how far the mayor's job has come in 236 years. Which, in some ways, isn't that far.

When the Lowcountry Livability PAC made its endorsements for Charleston City Council a few weeks back, West Ashley incumbents didn’t fare so well. In fact, the group suggested kicking four of them to the curb.

Dorchester County famously has some pretty cheap, and pretty loud, residents. They suggest better parks and libraries will lead to poorer roads, which is just not true. They argue the “better life” is not having new amenities. How do you figure?

Mount Pleasant, this Jim Owens mess is a wake-up call.

Joe Cunningham just doesn’t get it. The 1st District congressman is still “withholding judgment” on whether President Trump should be impeached for asking Ukraine to investigate his most formidable political rival.

The state Department of Transportation shouldn’t be surprised about all this flak over its plans to “improve” Highway 61.

At the very least, you’d think Jaime Harrison would send Lindsey Graham a thank-you note.

It only took one accident on Johns Island to paralyze much of Charleston in gridlock for nine hours this week.

Harris Street, where Wendell Gilliard remembers the vegetable man hawking produce every morning of his childhood, is the same street where, two weeks ago, a young man was murdered. That crime and others like it are the only way most people know the East Side these days, and Gilliard wants to change that.

The first time they met, Joe Whitfield was selling crack on Felix Street and Dan Riccio was a cop.

Some South Carolina congressmen have a point: Democrats could have launched their inquiry into an intelligence agent’s whistleblower complaint about Trump without using the term “impeachment.” And probably should have. The right thing to do in a situation like this is to gather all the facts, and then decide what to do. As congressman Joe Cunningham suggested.

South Carolina’s senior senator has been getting trolled mercilessly this week on social media — and the media in general — for his apparently, uh, evolving views on impeachment.

Freedom is a matter of perspective, since the state allows the misguided and misinformed to freely expose everyone else to highly contagious, infectious diseases.