Daddy-daughter trip to DC inspires

WASHINGTON, D.C, June 14, 2010 – The first annual Great Father-Daughter Summer Trip got underway Friday with a 540-mile car journey from Charleston.

My passenger? Six-year-old Avery Brack (“I’m six and a half, Dad.”)

Census brings R&R: revenue and representation

APRIL 2, 2010 – Filling out the Census isn’t a sin. It isn’t a Democratic or Republican thing. It’s just the law, something required in the U.S. Constitution by the founders of the country to ensure equal representation. But because even a piece of toast can become partisanized these days, some from the left and others from the right are trying to get Americans to boycott the Census or fill out only a part of it.

SC moving into economic recovery

You might not believe it from what you see around you, but economists say South Carolina is coming out of the recession.

“We still have a long way to go,” said Ryan Sweet at Moody’s Economy.com in West Chester, Pa. “The recovery is likely going to be slow and uneven, but we’re moving in the right direction.”

State, nation need to focus on what counts

MARCH 19, 2010 – With legislators in Washington struggling to pass health care reform and lawmakers in Columbia bickering over the state’s dismal budget, an air of passivity hovers around government.

Why can’t our leaders get anything done? What would the founding fathers think of these challenged politicians?

Clyburn whips up support for health care

Congressman Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) was in town over the weekend to whip some energy into about 200 local Democrats who had their county convention at the Stern Center at the College of Charleston.

It took only one topic to get thunderous applause: the imminent passage of major health care reform.