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| Event organizer Billy Simons with Congressman Tim Scott |
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| The new District 28 |
Stephen Colbert will be coming to Charleston this Friday and is bound to light some rhetorical fireworks just in time for the Fourth of July weekend.
In the movie "Con Air", there's a scene where Nicholas Cage looks at the car being towed through the sky by the plane he's a passenger on and remarks: "on any other day, that might seem strange."Current and former Columbia Free Times writers are teaming up to produce a black-and-white graphic novel on the bizarre rise and fall of South Carolina's Alvin Greene.
"What happened in the summer of 2010 was the strangest American political story in modern times," says Free Times staff writer Corey Hutchins, who gained national attention by exposing Greene. "It's no wonder that it came out of South Carolina, the state that James Petigru famously called 'too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum' more than 100 years ago."
Hutchins is teaming up with former Free Times staff writer David Axe and artist Ryan Alexander-Tanner to serialize the comic online beginning in early 2012, following with a print edition in the spring.
Pictured to the right is Robert Alt, owner of The Palms at Wyboo, a great place for a steak and a beer (or six), along with Hammond.
Third District Congressman Jeff Duncan must love to travel. In the Third Congressional District, which has no real population center, any good Congressman will have to rack up the miles to keep on top of things.
The Blogland had a great time attending the first meeting of the Midland's newest Republican Women chapter: the Blythewood Republican Women, a project spearheaded by Nikki Trawick, a veteran of Midlands GOP politics.
According to Charleston County government, tomorrow's House Oversight Committee hearing into NLRB abuses will be broadcast live on the Internet and available at www.oversight.house.gov.
Second District Congressman Joe Wilson commemorates the first anniversary of the so-called "Recovery Summer":
Click here to read more ...This hearing will focus on how your actions against Boeing could impact the thousands of Boeing employees at a non-union work site in South Carolina. You assert that you do not seek to close Boeing’s operations in South Carolina, yet the relief requested would have that exact effect.
Another graphic treat from the Waltons in York County - guest submissions are always welcome!
The complaint filed in state court Monday by the South Carolina Coastal Conversation League alleges that the company does not comply with city regulations on hotel locations. The complaint says the line's Carnival Fantasy docks in an area where no hotels are allowed.
The environmentalists want a judge to declare that the ship docking in Charleston amounts to locating a hotel in violation of city regulations.
For some people, it could take hundreds of dollars to get an identification with a picture that they never in their lives have needed before. To me, that seems like a poll tax, and that is illegal.
The recent news of the resignation of George Schroeder, who was appointed by Governor Haley to serve as the state's first Inspector General, shouldn't be the end of the idea.
The State Senate Judiciary Committee staff redistricting plans for the State Senate districts were released this afternoon. Not surprisingly, there were plenty of changes, with the overall trend of shifting representation to the coast and the inland metro areas.
