ELECTION 2026: Who’s running, where to vote, what to bring – your VOTING guide for Beaufort, Jasper counties
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ELECTION 2026: Who’s running, where to vote, what to bring – your VOTING guide for Beaufort, Jasper counties
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Whitener: Vote better this year
By Kasie Whitener This election, integrity is everything. We elect people trusting them to govern on our behalf and they are governing at our expense. We are in a financial crisis. Congress has allowed the national debt to balloon to $40 trillion. Voters and citizens have been taught to ignore the debt by the very people who could make it…
Reeside: It takes courage to leave the tribe
By Bill Reeside As a nuclear engineer for 40-plus years, I’m accustomed to using data to define problems, root cause analysis to understand the problem, and detailed study to create and implement solutions. Here’s the data that tells me we have problems at the federal level: inflation has been well above the 2% target for six years; the federal deficit…
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