Category Archives: Opinions
We all want good government. Here’s how we can make it happen.
There’s a lot to unpack in “Uncovered,” an innovative collaborative project between The Post and Courier and several smaller newspapers across South Carolina that debuted in this week’s editions 
and will continue throughout this year. The stories essentially are an expose within an expose: an epic tale of governmental corruption on all scales, bad behavior that too often slips by state and federal law enforcement and increasingly goes unreported by journalists because many smaller newspapers have had
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Resist the devil and he will flee
Someone sent me a text the other day about all the trash talking during the Super Bowl and how it seemed to bother some of the players.
As a sports fan, I’ve watched the power of words throughout the years and remember that Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan, just to name a couple of athletes, also used this tactic to intimidate and frustrate the opposition. The idea is to lure someone you are battling against into listening to what you are saying in order to distract and confuse them. This attempt to rattle our competitor is associated with words such as discredit, mock, slander, belittle,
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Between woods and river
We grew up at Sycamore Hill, the name of Grandmama’s farm.
It was indeed in the middle of nowhere and far from any major city. Summers were long, and we 
depended on each other for playmates and companionship.
My brother and I had our cousins who were not too far away.
We played outside with hardly any adult supervision and had free rein of the woods, the pond and the rest of the farm. We could go to the river, but would never swim unless an adult was there.
It wasn’t known as Drowning Creek for nothing.
But although on our own much of the time, we were well equipped to run free. We knew what was expected
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Another COVID scam
You know it’s getting bad when local police chiefs go on the nightly news to warn against scams. That’s what is happening in my area, and possibly in yours. Scammers are going all out to steal your 
information, money and identity, and they’re using the COVID vaccine as their tool.
A few weeks ago, the scammers’ tactic was to claim we were eligible for a special COVID Medicare card. The card doesn’t exist. So many of us might have said that in response to the frequent phone calls that the scammers changed tactics. Now
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County coal ash saga not dead yet
Lo and behold, another year has passed and Pickens County is still not safe from the possibility of becoming home to a toxic coal ash dump.
A Court of Appeals ruling issued in January 2020 had seemed to put a nail in the coffin of a company’s hopes to pull off a lucrative switcheroo and dispose of waste from coal-fired power plants instead of construction and demolition waste as the county had approved.
Although the Legislature changed state law to ban coal ash from the type of landfills allowed in Pickens County, MRR has continued to press its lawsuit against the county, filed in 2016, claiming breach of contract. Coal ash contains toxic substances such as mercury,
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Take steps to expand vaccinations
Why is it taking so long to get coronavirus vaccines to more people?
Why can’t teachers be among those first in line for the vaccine?
Why did South Carolina wait until February to expand the vaccine to those between 65 and 70?
Why can you get vaccinated in some counties and not in others?
There are more questions than answers about the vaccination program, but some perspective is needed. First, the “experts” back in early 2020 stated that the Trump administration’s goal of a vaccine in less than a year simply would not happen. But it did! Gearing up a nationwide vaccination
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Returning to our first love
Follow-up on Trump
Dear Editor,
This is a follow-up to a letter to the Courier published in the Feb. 3 edition that highlighted accomplishments of President Trump.
It was a start, but some more accomplishments need to be added, along
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Returning to our first love
The word revival is from the Hebrew word “chayah,” and it means to bring back to life, to restore, rejuvenate and renew. In the context of spiritual revival, it is often referred to as the great exchange, where man is shown his need to rededicate his life back to God and through repentance he yields his will to God’s will. Jesus then restores the personal relationship that was lost and floods the conscience with His joy and peace.
There have been many of these outpourings of God’s Spirit throughout the world that were driven by fervent
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Getting the vaccine
When can we get our COVID vaccine? Seniors everywhere are asking this question, and the answers are often vague, wrong or nonexistent.
Per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines, the vaccines will be given first to health care workers, then “frontline essential workers,” seniors in descending order of age and those with high-risk medical conditions. While getting the vaccine to health care workers hasn’t been
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Clarion call to all state leaders
With President Trump’s term ended and the Republicans in the minority in Washington, state governments are now the front line of defense for our Republic. Do state leaders realize this? If so, 
what steps are they taking to protect the sovereignty of our states, counties and citizens?
This is from an op-ed I wrote in a local newspaper in December 2015: “Today, what’s most alarming is how the federal government is starting to align with national corporations, the media and national
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