Category Archives: Opinions
The Moon-Eyed people
When the Cherokee settled in the southern Appalachian Mountains, 11,000 years ago, the Moon-Eyed people were already there.
The Cherokee tell about a mysterious people, with blonde hair and round blue eyes, who lived in caves in the 
Appalachian Mountains. They were short and fat with beards, and their skin was milky white and covered with a soft down. Their blue eyes were so sensitive to light that they could only
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Courier Letters to the Editor 3-6-24
Biden’s leadership
Dear Editor,
Your Feb. 21 Opinion page included a humorous collection of headlines including “Joe Biden spotted on Campaign TRAIL,” suggesting that President Biden is not out campaigning for his second term. We think his absence is great; President Biden is using his integrity and leadership skills to deal with an array of problems the U.S. and world are
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Leveling strongholds within the human mind
The human experience includes the standard requirement to choose right and wrong and has always been 
accountable when it comes to good and evil.
Each of us has the free will to choose how we live and no matter how much we brag about being independent, there is no such thing as walking through this life refusing to be accountable to God. Every self-
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Put a ‘pause’ on surgery at the VA
The Department of Veterans Affairs is expanding an initiative designed to hold off rushing a veteran to surgery. The purpose of the Surgical Pause is to give a good going over with veterans destined for surgery to screen them for risk of 
frailty.
Already taking place at 50 of the VA facilities, the program seeks to identify veterans who would likely experience post-operative
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Little expenses that add up
But it’s only …” is a phrase I’ve come to dislike. It always involves money and people who don’t understand living on 
reduced income.
“But it’s only twenty dollars a month,” said the one who was signing up for the new program at the rec center and trying to convince others to do the same. “But it’s only an extra fifty dollars a month,” said the one who was
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Upstate native Jackson’s place in history
I’ll never forget something one of my editors at The Greenville News told me as he was assigning me to cover Jesse Jackson.
He said every time we wrote about Jesse, our phones would start ringing with angry callers threatening to cancel their subscription.
“But we’re not going to quit covering him if he’s making news,” he said.
This was around 2005. The Greenville native had long been a national
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Time to bury the hatchet
Andrew Pickens and his wife, Rebecca, lived in a log cabin that overlooked the Seneca River (now Lake Hartwell).
Following the American Revolutionary War, the land would be awarded to Gen. Andrew Pickens for his military service, and Hopewell plantation would become one of the largest plantations in the Pendleton
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Play the piano for brain health
I’ve been reading in too many places about taking steps to hold off memory and cognitive impairment, so I’ve paid 
attention to some of the ideas we can use to keep our brains active.
One idea that’s been very enticing is playing the piano and using that as a protective factor against dementia and impairment.
When I began my hunt for a piano, I quickly realized that space
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Valentine’s Day is history — women’s history
Valentine’s Day is more than just a bouquet of flowers. For some, it is a day filled with romance and roses. For others, it may have been a day of romantic disaster.
It doesn’t matter how you celebrated Valentine’s Day, I just hope you got chocolates. It’s always nice to have fancy chocolates presented in a heart-shaped box — after all, history is like a box of chocolates.
In Chicago, on Valentine’s Day 1920, Carrie Chapman Catt should
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