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.
A few quick facts about the camp tractor. First, it looks like a tractor. The exhaust pipe extends up through the engine cowling, a pipe that can be covered by a #303 can (16-17 oz.), these days commonly replaced with a 15-oz. can, or a #2 can (20 oz.), both of which are available without charge at any recycling location.
The camp tractor’s contamination release valve Read More »
Beaufort County Council was scheduled this week to get a look at their transportation advisory committee’s recommendations for a sales tax question to put on the November ballot. They don’t have a lot of time to consider their options.
Lowcountry Lowdown Read More »
This is the final article in a series on VA Health Care eligibility, priority groups, copay rates, and how veterans’ income levels and other special eligibility factors affect VA healthcare. These five articles and the VA websites referenced within should encourage veterans to stop procrastinating and:
When those of us who can be vaccinated choose to do so, we create a shield that protects the most vulnerable. We reduce the chances that a preventable disease becomes a crisis. We preserve the progress that generations before us worked hard to achieve, and we keep kids out of hospitals and in the community where they can thrive, grow, play, and learn. This measles outbreak in S.C. has reminded us how quickly that progress can be tested.
Vaccines keep our children safe Read More »
It was Brian Cobb who wrote this: “King Charles delivered a well-crafted diplomatic speech, appealing to the ideals of Democracy, the Constitution, Pluralism, Human Rights and the ties of our shared histories. He did not insult our intelligence; he did not deprecate or threaten anyone based on gender, race, party or ideology. Charles spoke the truth. He did not lie. I repeat, he did not lie.”
It takes a real king to educate a wannabe Read More »
I know developers replant trees, but many years must pass before a tree provides the benefits of “air quality, stormwater management, wind buffers, increased property values, and cooling effects to our homes and communities …” as the Port Royal Tree Ordinance states. To paraphrase the poet, Joyce Kilmer, “Essays are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree.”
Elegy for the trees Read More »
It is Sunday, and I’m in Port Royal. This afternoon I’m sitting with Leigh Stone in my small grey-painted study, and we’re talking about Oxytetracycline — a broad spectrum antibiotic discovered by Pfizer Pharmaceuticals in 1949.
Somewhere, someplace, his father must be smiling Read More »
People are paying attention to how situations like this are handled. Because public trust is not built through statements. It is built through follow through. And the City of Beaufort deserves better. The public deserves clear answers. And the minors and their families deserve clear answers.
Trust is built through follow through Read More »
As it stands, I am saddened by what we have become, by what we are tolerating, by “who we are.” And I pray for better days ahead.
