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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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.
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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Manning: An offer Graham couldn’t refuse
The sister of South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham was appointed to finish out his term after he died recently, a gesture that has rubbed a lot of people the wrong way.
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Graber: The Fryemont is a time machine
It is Wednesday morning, early, and we’re in the wood-paneled lobby of the Fryemont Inn overlooking the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. We’ve packed our bags, paid the tab, assured Denise, the desk clerk, that “We’ll back in October when the leaves begin to turn.”
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Dandridge: VA decision reviews and appeals (Part 1)
This is the first in a series of five articles on VA decision reviews, appeals, and what veterans need to know about:
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Commentary: So what’s the problem? Will Beaufort County come clean about its own issues?
Recently, Beaufort County Treasurer Maria Walls, herself an elected official, stood up at the May 26 County Council meeting and reminded the elected officials there had been eight county administrators, six chief financial officers, five deputy administrators and four county attorneys in the past nine years.
Shouldn’t that have been a red flag something is wrong?
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Letters to the Editor: Please thank Mr. Hyde
The column by Paul Hyde about the life and career of Sen. Lindsey Graham was a sensitive, accurate, and well written piece capturing his hard-won personal and political accomplishments.
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