WASHINGTON — When the federal government’s 1980 "Dietary Guidelines for Americans" warned about the baleful effects of saturated fats, public interest activists joined the fight and managed to persuade major food companies to switch to the shiny new alternative: trans fats.
In 2014, Democrats, the majority party in the Senate, had to defend most of the seats up for election, more than a few in unfriendly territory. That year, Republicans took back control of the chamber, picking up nine seats.
We talk about our children bullying each other in school, and here we have a person, Donald Trump, running for the most important office in our country who is bullying the other candidates on national TV with every station blasting it over and over.
Remember when President Obama stated that al-Qaida was decimated? He quickly removed troops from Iraq, leaving millions of dollars of equipment behind for the re-constituted Iraq military to defend themselves.
Now that the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris is completed, it is time for us in Charleston to begin to determine what we should be doing to address climate change. This is even more relevant as we welcome a new mayor on Jan. 11.
This paper has regular features and op-eds imploring the ideal of tolerance that we are expected to be sensitive to other beliefs.
Is today the day I become a member of the America I read so much about? That other America: the gun club — the world in which people experience living with guns or dying from them.
Help me out here: Donald Trump gets lambasted for suggesting a stopper be inserted in the immigration system until all Muslims seeking entry are properly and competently vetted and the government can figure out what’s going on.
The liberal, "progressive" media want to portray all of The Citadel as racist because of the absolute poor judgment and/or stupidity of a small group of kids.
Charleston certainly isn’t known for its white Christmases, but the holiday season this year has felt more like beach season. And it’s not just in the Lowcountry.
The U.S. unemployment rate remained at 5 percent in November, its lowest level since 2008. And when the Labor Department releases its final 2015 statistics, they will include the fewest Americans seeking new unemployment benefits since 1973.
In October 2014, Post and Courier Food Editor Hanna Raskin addressed the legends surrounding pine bark stew in a piece headlined "Pee Dee’s Pine Bark Stew featuring fresh fish is seasoned with lots of folklore." Find it at http://bit.ly/1GUuXhv.
Darrett Drayton lives in North Charleston.
Many readers will recognize the name of today’s cook, who is a native Charlestonian and a well-known author of several novels, including "Dreams of Sleep," "Rich in Love" (also made into a movie) and "The Fireman’s Fair." But there’s another side of her less visible to the public, a...
Megan Crull has worked at Ye Ole Fashioned Ice Cream & Sandwich Cafe in Mount Pleasant for two years. The Bishop England grad is headed to the University of South Carolina this month, but she’s already learned everything she needs to know about ice cream service.
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BROWN, Harry, of North Charleston, husband of Blanch Brown, died Monday. Arrangements by North Area Funeral Home.
Ten years ago today, then-19-year-old Adam Gorlitsky was driving home to Mount Pleasant from Columbia when he fell asleep and his speeding car spun out of control, crashing on Interstate 26.
Charleston doesn’t have a sophisticated public transportation system today, but transportation planner Ben Cotton can imagine what one might look like.
MONCKS CORNER — Bill Peagler’s first year as head of Berkeley County government has been an eventful one.
What a tough year for our beloved English language! Microaggression in; crazy out. Othering in; alien out. How am I supposed to address ET? Phone home, my darling ... interplanetary voyager?
Татарстан Гидрометеорология һәм әйләнә-тирә мохитне күзәтү идарәсе мәгълүматларына караганда, бүген – 30 декабрьдә, аязучан болытлы һава торышы хакимлек итәчәк.
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(Reuters) - California Secretary of State Alex Padilla said on Tuesday that his office was working to verify claims that confidential voter information had been exposed on the Internet, the Sacramento Bee newspaper reported.
Татарстанда пиротехника белән саксыз эш итү аркасында өч кеше зыян күргән. Сәламәтлегенә зыян килүчеләр арасында – 8 яшьлек малай, 19 яшьлек егет һәм 29 яшьлек ир-ат бар. Бәхетсезлек очраклары 18, 26 һәм 28 декабрьдә Казан, Чаллы һәм Әлмәт районының Яңа Кәшер авылында булган.
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