Letters to the editor: What we can do
If the Chinese and Mexicans were shooting missiles into the United States and killing 38,000 Americans every year, what would the response be?
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Voices
Opinion pieces, commentary, editorials, and columns that reflect community perspectives from Beaufort’s writers, thought leaders, and residents. This category provides a platform for voices shaping local discussion on issues, values, culture, civic life, and public debate in Beaufort and the broader Lowcountry.
Wood: Are you feeling nervous, edgy? (Part 1)
I often wonder if other folks are feeling nervous, edgy, overly cautious, even distrustful, as I do these days. After all, this insanity within these so-called news cycles have never, as far as my history knowledge goes, ever been so emotional draining since, say, 1930 through the 70’s. Especially since the resurrected dead-horse of “Communism” is again now among us for people to beat upon.
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Graber: Air power is fine, but in the end …
We are, I think, witnessing the end of the helicopter and the advent of the so-called “drone swarm.” The battlefield will never be the same.
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Lucas: Order in the court
As I sit at my computer and attempt to write this week’s article, I find myself challenged. That challenge is magnified 10 times over by the fact that it is Monday. By now (usually), I would have written on Saturday, proofread for the second time on Sunday, and submitted by Sunday evening.
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Mathews: Seeing America through their eyes
The World Cup brought many thousands of visitors to the United States, and their reactions to everything from cowboy hats to Buc-ee’s brisket were fantastic.
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Lowcountry Lowdown: Dominion tree-cutting clears view of power-line clutter
Some folks have spent so much time recently staring up at the trees to gasp at the latest damage done to the local trees by dear Dominion Energy, they’re noticing another related man-made blight to our landscape.
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Letter to the Editor: I hope Carol Lucas is cured
I hope someday a vaccine is found to cure folks like Carol Lucas from the dreaded Trump Derangement Syndrome.
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Pugh: Finding comfort in depressing times
In this complex, rapidly changing, and unpredictable world, do you find yourself in need of comfort? Are you having trouble finding it? You’re not alone.
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Mathews: Could we survive?
As summer wears on, I have pondered an opinion piece by Les Rubin entitled, “John Adams Made a Terrifying Prediction. America is Close to Proving Him Correct.” Rubin reported that our second President said, “Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There was never a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”
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Lucas: Back to ‘The Real Food Show’ – Beyond the boundaries of ‘taste’
Did you ever have one of those moments when it seems that everything around you is so off kilter, so removed from the norm that you say to yourself, “You simply cannot make up this stuff”?
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