Like many people in Senate District 41, Roy Maybank is frustrated with state government. What makes him different from most is that he has substantive plans to do something about it. If elected, Mr. Maybank would focus on three issues: infrastructure, education and job growth.
Amid indications that North Korea may have moved big time into the bank robbery business, President Barack Obama has ordered that North Korean banks be cut off from the international banking system, using authority earlier granted by Congress.
When Air France Flight 447 crashed in the Atlantic in 2009, it took two years and more than $25 million before investigators found it. Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared in 2014 and still hasn’t turned up. EgyptAir 804, lost on May 19, is somewhere on the bottom of the Mediterranean, but until investigators can dredge up its...
A California judge last week sentenced former Stanford University swimmer Brock Allen Turner to six months in jail for a horrifying sexual assault on an unconscious, alcohol-impaired woman. The resulting uproar over the sentence’s undue leniency risks missing the most important lesson of the case.
It was impossible not to notice the many people who left during a recent Spoleto performance of "The Little Match Girl." The opera was certainly not the version of the classic Hans Christian Andersen children’s story that the audience likely expected. One can only imagine, however, what compels so many to get up and leave a...
I am heartsick to see in the June 4 Post and Courier that the Terrace Theatre is bringing the infamous anti-vaccine documentary to the Charleston area. California has had outbreaks of measles because people have refused vaccinations based on this entirely discredited "study" from the ’90s. The doctor invented the data. It...
Thanks for Jack Bass’s excellent and somewhat frightening book review of Jane Moyer’s "Dark Money." Unfortunately, our sitting governor appears to be firmly under the control of these secretive forces that will bring little positive to South Carolina other than the rancor and divisiveness that we continue to witness at...
June 3 ended my four-year employment with an area district teaching in a high poverty, low diversity high school. June 6 ends the court deferment case I have against a student who aggressively cornered me in my classroom in September.
George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward wrote "Porgy and Bess" to make money by entertaining people. It was not intended to be a socio-historical manual on Charleston. What went into the totality of the opera was what made the characters think, what made them sing.
I applaud The Post and Courier for its wonderful editorial "Gibbes stunning restoration" on June 6. I couldn’t agree more with your glowing comments, especially the line "it was meticulously conceived and masterfully carried out."
In hot weather, I occasionally hear a very loud horn-like sound when I drive at 65 mph or higher. The noise appears to be on the passenger side, toward the front of the car. The local Honda dealer and a local mechanic have checked belts, windows, sunroof and the hood latch. It seems to happen only when I am driving on a curve, and it...
Alternative fuel pickups lean toward one type of technology, and it’s gaining interest in South Carolina as much as almost anywhere, according to a national marketing group.
Boating excursionists dub this water adventure "The Great Loop," an up-to-7,500-mile circumnavigation of Eastern North America by way of ocean, lake and river.
Last Sunday, my wife noticed me setting our alarm for an early wake-up. She groaned in protest.
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is part of Divided America, AP’s ongoing exploration of the economic, social and political divisions in American society. For more, see a story about race and religion in America in Sunday’s Post and Courier.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Millions of Muslims around the world on Monday marked the start of Ramadan, a month of intense prayer, dawn-to-dusk fasting and nightly feasts. Others will begin fasting a day later, Tuesday, due to a moon-sighting methodology that can lead to different countries declaring the...
LONDON — It’s Queen Elizabeth II’s birthday — still.
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BING, Rubye Albright, 77, of Charleston, a Naval Hospital retiree, died Friday. Arrangements by W.M. Smith McNeal’s Downtown Chapel.
Paul Ryan says it’s time for Republicans to unite with the presumptive nominee Donald Trump. Sure, Trump says racist things sometimes and disagrees with most of our proposals, but Republicans have to go into this campaign as a team. There has to be a Republican majority in Congress to give ballast to a Trump presidency or block...
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A three-run fifth inning would be all the Charleston RiverDogs needed as they topped Asheville, 3-0, on Friday night in front of a crowd of 4,823 at Riley Park.