It was called to my attention last Thursday that a letter had been published in The Country Chronicle from an enraged Belinda Portnall, chairwoman of the Greater Blythewood Chamber of Commerce, verbally attacking Blythewood Town Council members Eddie Baughman and Tom Utroska for expressing their concerns during the Aug. 21 Town Council meeting about the […]

Jamel Dunn, age 32, drowned on July 9 in a large pond in Cocoa, Florida. Sadly, his decomposed body was not found until July 14. There is a possibility that all of this could have been prevented if it were not for the callousness of a group of teenagers. While struggling to save his own […]

The reoccurring nightmare known as VC Summer offers a daily stream of incredible stories of greed, cover ups, gross mismanagement, and just plain gosh awful stupidity. Certainly we need to hold the culprits consequentially accountable and adjust the utility regulations which enabled this disaster. Most importantly our legislators should cease pursuing the impossible dream of […]

As a Christian, the last thing I want to do is to sin against God. I don’t want to fall short of His expectations of me and in turn disappoint Him. Sure, I understand the fact God knows I am weak and frail and that I will not live perfectly in His sight. Knowing this […]

Fast and Furious” best describes our state officials’ recently expressed outrage towards the failed V.C. Summer project. Certainly, we are pleased to read the state’s elected officials have emerged from their collective self-induced coma. Fortunately, it did not take too much to get our officials to wake up to the V.C. Summer disaster- merely billions […]

Every so often our South Carolina state legislature fixates on a minor opportunity and turns it into an epic disaster with  ill conceived “fixes.” We are all too familar with the pain inflicted by the pension ‘de’form of 1999 and the destructive Base Load Review Act of 2007 as examples of the state’s penchant for […]

I believe the mayor of Ridgeway and the town council generally do an overall good job. However, the “doggie dust up” (The Voice 7/6/17) is an example of local government at its worst . The Mayor seems to be wasting valuable town resources and giving the town a black eye over a very petty conflict. […]

Summertime meant one thing to Delaine and me when we were children – walking around barefooted, catching fireflies and using bad grammar. There were standards about footwear during the school year, but not during the summer. Catching fireflies meant that Delaine and I were in Newark, New Jersey visiting one of our favorite cousins and […]

Delaine and I recently adopted a baby boy, but we can’t agree about how to rear him. First, I think of him as a baby, but Delaine insists on calling him a mutt. On that point Delaine wins. He was a rescue at the animal shelter when we adopted him. He was listed as a […]

It is quite alarming to read the influx of information that is streaming from various news outlets throughout our state in reporting the current situation with V.C. Summer Nuclear Plant here in Fairfield County. There are so many considerations by many involved partners. When this many people are at a decision-making table, it becomes quite […]