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.
As I wrote in my first article, there is more to life than politics. There will be plenty of opportunities to reflect on government officials and 2026 elections as the year progresses. Now is the time to appreciate the natural world’s prelude to heaven: spring and the glory of Easter.
The Black church isn’t bad just because it’s Black, and any white person who thinks so is fooling themselves if they think they are good just because they are white.
Sorry, the Black church is not the problem Read More »
We must get back on track, first and foremost, by adhering to the Constitution which clearly delineates the three separate but equal branches of our government. However, I have to say that I am not holding my breath until this happens. Sadly enough, I expect chaos-as-usual.
When mother was leaving this realm, I was with my brother and sister at her bedside. We were not fighting, although there were lingering disagreements, unresolved. We had — thanks to a last minute gift of Scotch — been passing around a bottle of Dewar’s; talking in the semi-darkness; recounting our peripatetic, mostly happy childhoods thinking mother might still hear us. Eventually the nurse came in the room, looked at each of us in turn, then said, “You know she passed 30 minutes ago.”
Engineering a deathbed peace Read More »
Two S.C. House Republican leaders recently wrote a column excusing the failure to take any action whatsoever regarding the S.C. GOP’s repeated calls to reform the party primary nomination process in our state.
No more excuses for inaction on primary reform Read More »
This is the third article in a series of three articles on homeless veterans and the resources available to those who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless due to financial hardship, unemployment, addiction, depression, injury, illness, disability, or transition from jail.
Homelessness still a major problem for thousands of veterans, Part 3 Read More »
If you watched this hearing with any level of objectivity, you have to admit that the attorney general of the United States came to this event with one objective, and that was to defend the president, regardless of whom she might offend.
Her own day of infamy Read More »
A group of students from the local elementary school appeared and thanked Dorothy for her lesson on duplicity. As a reward, they presented her with a pair of magic slippers made in class, slippers that, when their heels were clicked together in a joyful leap, could grant a wish.
So Dorothy leaped joyfully, clicked, wished, and she and Toto were back in Kansas.
It was a close call Read More »
I still have my morning coffee, a small tub of Chobani (Vanilla) Yogurt and I’m contented — contented because my laptop has delivered the various arguments of Richard Harpootlian, Jim Griffin and Creighton Waters as to whether Alexander Murdaugh got a fair trial consistent with the 6th Amendment.
It wasn’t perfect but was it fair? Read More »
