It’s time for Dick Stewart to look in the mirror.
Mr. Stewart recently lambasted the Beaufort City Council members for allowing a chain-link fence to remain at the waterfront.
To quote him, Stewart told the officials:
“The longer the chain-link fence remains the more damage it does to Beaufort’s image and the bottom line of the downtown businesses. The chain-link fence is unsightly. It looks unkempt”
However, Dick has allowed his building on the corner of Port Republic and Charles Street to remain vacant and rundown for years.
Simply put, if one were to replace the words “chain-link” with “vacant building” in his quote it would be quite relevant.
The continued presence of this vacant building does far more damage to the downtown, its image and impact to the businesses than the temporary chain-link fence does.
It would be more appropriate for the City Council members to turn the tide and lambaste Mr. Stewart for allowing this vacant building to remain in our downtown.
If he has no plans to build the apartments that he obtained approval for at this site, at least demolish the building and create an open, landscaped space/park that would enhance the city as a whole.
As a member of this community I certainly welcome his offer to replace the chain-link fence.
However the continued presence of a vacant, derelict building in downtown Beaufort is simply unacceptable.
— Douglas Storrs, Beaufort
A fraudulent problem invented by a fraudulent president
Now that the House has passed the SAVE Act, requiring passport or birth certificate to vote, let’s contact our senators to urge their NO vote.
If this passes into law …
Women who don’t go by their birth names will be the big losers. Passports are expensive and only needed for international travel. If your certified birth certificate is not readily available, it’s another process that takes time and costs money. (A real ID driver’s license is not sufficient for proof of citizenship in 45 states, including ours.)
If the government requires proof of citizenship to vote, it should send out citizen IDs. Lord knows they have the data. Of course that’s another taxpayer cost, and bureaucratic jumble. (Or perhaps a nascent business opportunity for some opportunistic oligarchs?)
All this is in service of a fraudulent problem invented by a president who thinks he can only lose an election through voter fraud.
Yes, contact our senators. Oh, and by the way, let’s elect a different one when the time comes: Dr. Annie Adrews for U.S. Senate.
— Carol Brown, Beaufort
‘This assault cannot stand’
During these chaotic times it’s hard to know which issues to be more concerned about, but I will focus on the corrupt and reckless efforts by the Trump administration to dismantle bedrock environmental protections and the agencies that implement them.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was created to protect the environment and people from harmful pollution, but under the Trump administration the EPA has provided fossil fuel companies and some of the nation’s worst polluters opportunities to evade clean air and water standards.
Nowhere is this more evident than the recent efforts to repeal EPA’s Endangerment Finding, the landmark legal and scientific determination that climate pollution harms the environment and people and must be regulated. Without the Endangerment Finding, a host of vital clean air protections that limit pollution from power plants, oil and gas operations and vehicles will likely be weakened or eliminated altogether.
Climate pollution and the harms it poses to human health and safety is supported by mountains of scientific evidence. Climate pollution threatens human health, fuels hurricanes and other dangerous weather events and damages our economy.
Our country has made important progress in cutting climate pollution, but the Trump administration at every turn is attempting to take this country backward for no other reason than to enrich themselves and the countries biggest polluters. This assault cannot stand.
I urge everyone to vote to put a check on this corrupt administration and to fight against these reckless and damaging actions by supporting environmental organizations like the Environmental Defense fund (EDF) and the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC).
— Susan Davis, Beaufort