Porches to Sidewalks
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
More than 12 percent of South Carolinians aren't working this week. The insolvency of the State's Unemployment fund has been presented to the public as a secret surprise produced by a faceless, unresponsive bureaucracy. Nobody we elected admits to an ...
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
It is easy to win elections by slamming cell doors, but something more complex and responsible is required in South Carolina.The recommendations in the recently released South Carolina Sentencing Reform Commission Report To The General Assembly (Feb. ...
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Three new members of Mount Pleasant Town Council spoke to the East Cooper Democrats last week. Their collective message was a sobering one.All agreed the town's economic and budget prospects are dire. Heavy dependence on new construction impact fees ...
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
A small fragment of the Wando riverfront forest survives at Etiwan Point.I visited the walking trail which passes through a bit of green space saved from Mount Pleasant's rolling sprawl last Saturday. Below and to the South West of where the Wando Ri ...
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Mount Pleasant resident Gene Lesesne, who lives in the Old Village, needs help building water purification units for Haiti. He has volunteered with the Lowcountry's Water Missions International since it was founded to provide clean water to people su ...
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
The explanations about to be set forth may be completely wrong. That's what makes The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus interesting. Director Terry Gilliam's long filmography of weird, imaginative and sometimes financially disastrous movies continues w ...
Wednesday, January 06, 2010
The City Slicker tour of Charleston, downloaded to an iPhone and oriented to geographic location, continues to evolve in Version 7 and incorporates more information about our area. For many people, this is the future of tour guides.The company operat ...
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
A 3000 foot long, 10 foot high wall will soon run along the north side of Highway 17 as part of the relentless effort to deliver the asphalt someone hopes will solve Mount Pleasant's problems. According to a report in the Dec. 17 Post and Courier, co ...
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Invictus is the sort offilm that is increasingly unmade. It's decent simplicity and simple message leaves the audience with a usable, optimistic takeaway that explosive comic book epics and gray complexity movies both fail to deliver.&nbs ...
Wednesday, December 02, 2009
The tradition began when my Grandmother gave us a box of handmade Christ-mas ornaments in the 1960s. She had made them by decorating satin Christ-mas ornaments, which were spun around a core of Styrofoam, with pinned on sequins, plastic crystal ...
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
This week ends with “Black Friday,” so named because many retail businesses traditionally go into the black for the year on that day.However this is no ordinary year. One national retailer, whose shelves are full of goods made in other countrie ...
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Another year of borrowed turkey is before us. We feel guilty, but at least we’re not Levi Johnston looking across the table at Todd Palin, armed with a carving knife.After 22 years of marriage, with a son along on the project for 17, my family has st ...
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
The State of South Carolina’s $450 million incentive package to recruit Boeing is probably only the beginning of the costs associated with bringing badly needed industrial production jobs to the Lowcountry. With starting wages of $14 per ...
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Trivia or Treat is done for the fourth year. Each year we head to the front porch to challenge all comers to answer trivia questions about their costume to get candy. We bring lots of candy, and a few special prizes from the gourmet chocolate shop on ...
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Mount Pleasant’s Water-front Memorial Park overflow parking area is covered with the sort of course grass and sand which naturally devolves here when ground isn’t watered or fertilized. At 3:50 p.m. last Saturday, it became the location of a po ...
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Sixteen riders set out to prove the trip from Shelmore Boulevard to Wando High School could be made by bicycle last Friday. Three joined along the way. Six riders were candidates for Mount Pleasant Town Council. We all have a long r ...
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Penn Center on St. Helena Island near Beaufort possesses a 147-year history of nurturing progressive and liberal activity in South Carolina. Activity there began with the education of Freedmen and their families during the American Civil ...
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
CARTA has rerouted the #40 local bus through Waterfront Park. This creates opportunity for Mount Pleasant and a challenge for the candidates in the Nov. 3. election.CARTA’s #40 local bus provides transportation from the Visitor’s Center a ...
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Sometimes leasing thin air for $147 million can be a bad deal for South Carolina.This week, the state budget and control board will consider selling off 95 percent of ETV’s bandwidth to private data carriers. The transition from Analogue to Digital t ...
Wednesday, September 09, 2009
Could tax cuts and doctors doing charity work provide medical care to the 700,000 South Carolinians who don’t currently have coverage and the million more who are underinsured? On Sept. 4, Henry Brown apparently indicated such an idea might be ...
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Living wills have been part of South Carolina Law for over 20 years. With other documents, they can provide dignity and avoid family acrimony as the most difficult time any of us confront.For the past week living wills, now more commonly called Advan ...
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
On a summer’s day, Chicago reminds us what America can be.Our walk along Michigan Avenue took my son Jackson and I from the 100 story Hancock Tower to Federal Plaza. We walked the sunlit “magnificent mile” of busy stores, flower planters and broad si ...
Wednesday, August 05, 2009
We met Vince on the trembling steel of Chicago’s State Street Bridge. The view of the two round towers of the Marina City complex from the bridge is famous.Vince was something of a landmark himself. He was wearing a silk suit of turquoise blue on its ...
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Four Charleston theaters screened the Harry Potter movie last weekend. Only one screen was devoted to Bubba Ho Tep, a film you might have found in a Big Lots bargain bin.While Harry was using his powers to battle Valdemort at the Multiplex, in ...
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Our family’s new Glassmaster tri-hull was like the Apollo moon Lander. On July 20, 1969, within a month of Woodstock and the experimental launch of the Internet, the Hamilton family hooked the boat’s trailer to the hitch on my mother’s Buick Electra ...
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