2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (262+ words) When the expensively-printed brochure arrived in the mail asking for three votes in November to approve more sales taxes, we raised an eyebrow at the slick messaging. The other brow went up quickly thereafter when Charleston County unveiled a fancy…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (455+ words) MORNING HEADLINES | Mount Pleasant town council today is expected to discuss the first reading of an ordinance that would establish a temporary moratorium on requests related to data centers. According to the proposal, data centers can generate significant noise and…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (517+ words) Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman writes American society “has become strongly oligarchic, with enormous wealth and political influence in the hands of a handful of billionaires. The current concentration of wealth at the top is not only immensely greater than…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (1710+ words) By Jack O’Toole, Statehouse bureau | It all started with a phone call from a constituent. “There was a lady who lived on Nassau Street,” said former S.C. Rep. Jimmy Bailey of Charleston, referring to a street in the city’s…...