Mug Shots

The following were taken from actual incident reports filed last week by the City of Charleston Police Department. These are not convictions and the names of businesses, complainants, and suspects have been left out to protect the innocent. All suspects are  innocent...

An Ode To The English Brown

Is there any beer more subtle, wonderful, and comforting than the English Brown ale? Flavorful, easy to drink, attractive to look at, offering sweet, sometimes nutty aromas, English brown ales are a very soothing choice in the ale world. Possibly the most versatile...

Stop Shortchanging South Carolina

South Carolinians have to get over the cheapskate model of democracy. To do otherwise is to continue to fail our future. Billions of dollars of underinvestment in roads, bridges and health care over recent years leaves the state at the mercy of disasters of one sort...

Know Your Candidates (Part 5 of 6)

This is the fifth in a several-week series of profiles of the six candidates to succeed Joe Riley as mayor of Charleston. The candidates are Ginny Deerin, W. Dudley Gregorie, Toby Smith, Leon Stavrinakis, John Tecklenburg, and Maurice Washington. Toby Smith is a...

GOP Needs New Leadership

I’ve been a Republican all of my adult life but didn’t actually get involved in party politics until the age of 46 because someone invited me to attend the precinct reorganization meeting. I’m sure many other life-long Republicans have never been encouraged to get...

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