As I sit on one of our many gorgeous barrier island beaches reading my Post and Courier I’m reminded of yet another reason why I love this city and its people.
The major presidential candidates are both so widely despised as to seem unelectable. Yet one of them will win. Meantime, the campaign promises to be nasty, brutish and long.
On May 21 a very large cruise ship docked at our downtown cruise terminal causing a monumental traffic jam. I live on Concord Street just north of the large parking lot used to park cars for guests of the cruise line.
Your recent critical editorial as to the faults of Obamacare raised several issues. It failed to note fully 90 percent of Americans now are covered by medical insurance, the most ever.
The passenger security fees collected to fund the TSA’s screening operations have become just another revenue stream for the federal government, causing passengers to wait in long lines because of a personnel shortage. The next time you see an airline passenger thank them for helping to reduce the federal deficit with their...
I want to thank Bo Petersen for writing the positive article on Dr. Al Goodyear. He was treated very unprofessionally — really brutally — by his fellow archaeologists for many years.
Letters opposing the Ashley pedestrian/bike lane seem to imply that traffic is impacted by the lane closure all day.
Colonial Lake does indeed look lovely, and there is parking along Ashley Avenue, Beaufain Street and Rutledge Avenue, but there are two problems.
President Barack Obama returned over the weekend from a successful week-long trip to Vietnam and Japan aimed at shoring up relations with those countries, both of which face pressure from a newly aggressive China. The trip was a welcome expression of the president’s justifiable concern about international tensions in Asia.
Four brick columns and four walls of the stately Sheldon Church still stand in Yemassee.
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has received an application but has not yet made a decision about granting permit to a Wyoming Indian tribe that wants to kill bald eagles for religious purposes, a spokesman says.
WASHINGTON — Gloria Steinem and Vice President Joe Biden were engrossed in conversation steps from his ceremonial office, where he was getting his makeup done. Steinem, already prepped, was here to interview him for "Woman," her new Vice TV show.
During Memorial Day, as we count the heroes lost to war, I try to remember one face that represents the many. One face I remember was Pfc. Justin Casillas whose funeral I officiated only a month after I returned from Iraq.
Before the Northern Illinois University president presented the class of 2016 their diplomas, he delivered one from 1953 first.
LONDON — "Top Gear" doesn’t do understatement.
NEW YORK — No kidding, "House of Lies" is going out in grand style.
MADRID — Spanish archaeologists say they have discovered an exceptional set of Paleolithic-era cave drawings that could rank among the best in a country that already boasts some of the world’s most important cave art.
SPOKANE, Wash. — Before Macklemore or Nirvana, this land was Woody Guthrie’s land.
FIELDS, Emma Othella, 91, of Charleston died Thursday. Arrangements by Murray’s Mortuary of North Charleston.
DORSEY, Deloris, Kingstree
As the school year wraps up, many are celebrating with parties, awards and cupcakes.
By ROSS DOUTHAT
Malacañang condemned the killing of a tabloid reporter in Quiapo, Manila, evening of May 27, 2016.
The problem with "Porgy and Bess," a folk opera about a black community in Charleston created by three white men with good intentions, is that the various productions over the years have tended to present unflattering two-dimensional caricatures, stereotypes really: the crippled beggar, the easy (and drug-addicted) woman, the dope...
Florise opens her inbox to find an invitation to a party, but also sees her suitor on Facebook with another woman. In an attempt to win him back, she plots to disguise herself as a man to break them up. Her plan changes when she ends up falling in love with the other woman.