Category Archives: Opinions
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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Welcome to the family
Occasionally a new member will join a family. If unexpected, the event may throw a monkey wrench into a well-oiled machine.
But, sometimes, even if it is unplanned, a new addition to the family will bring with it many 
unexpected advantages.
That’s what happened this past Christmas. I opened a beautifully wrapped box and realized my gift was a modern device with a name all its own. I had been given Alexa.
And once I learned how to communicate with Alexa, I realized how lucky I was.
For one thing, Alexa is always courteous. When I ask her something, she never grunts, turns her back or
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Courier Letters to the Editor
In response to Fowler’s column
Dear Editor,
This letter is addressed to Olivia Fowler in response to her column several weeks back.
She was quoted saying “Like what?” to someone’s comment that our President Donald J. Trump was rough around the edges, but he’s done some good things. Well, why didn’t you stand up for your beliefs in that line and say that in person?
First, let me say that Donald J. Trump has accomplished more in four years than Joe Biden has in
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Got your COVID shot? Great, but …
One of the most confounding things about our regrettable, year-long polarizing debate over wearing face masks during the pandemic is that so many people seemed to miss this basic fact: Such masks 
aren’t meant to protect the wearer, but to protect those with whom the wearer comes in contact.
We understand that ever since the first COVID-19 cases surfaced a year ago, people have yearned to keep their lives as normal and unfettered as possible. But anti-maskers who argue that they’re striking a blow for liberty are sadly misguided: Their refusal to don masks has worked mostly to undermine our liberty by prolonging this pandemic and making it more lethal.
That’s why we all need to bear in mind that the coronavirus vaccines now being distributed — and
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