Clearly our state’s education opportunities are too numerous and too complex to entirely ameliorate in one hastily assembled bill. South Carolinians are all too familiar with the negative ramifications of hurried half-baked bills such as the Gas Tax and the Base Load Review Act. Let’s not further validate Einstein’s theory of insanity by making additional […]
Guest Editorial: Advantages of Multi-Age Grouping
March 7, 2019 By
The Barclay School is a small, private, non-profit school in Ridgeway for K-12 special needs students. At our school, not only are we proud of our differences, but we are proud to do things differently. Our students “show” us what they have learned through projects and reports. We move at the pace of the individualized […]
Letters: McKie illegally seated
March 7, 2019 By
According to South Carolina Code of Laws, Amelia McKie was not eligible to be sworn in as a Richland 2 School Board member for the term 2018-2022. The election was Nov. 6, 2018, and she was sworn in on Nov. 13, 2018. (Title 8, Chapter 13) Section 8-13-1110 (A) “No public official … designated in […]
A Jackpot for South Carolina
March 7, 2019 By
COLUMBIA – They say money can’t buy happiness … but I know some budget writers who are happy about $61 million more in state income taxes! [That is the amount the state will receive in tax revenue from the winning Mega Millions jackpot that was in the news this week.] While it’s certainly great news, […]
Letters: Teacher Village DOA, unless…
March 7, 2019 By
The Teacher Village does have potential to improve FCSD’s low teacher retention rate. However, the Teacher Village Project team still has much work ahead of them to meet County requirements before the requested tax breaks can even be considered. According to previous Council statements. The Village project is presently DOA in Council due to two […]
Editorial: Long, Ineffective Meetings Mark R2 Board
March 7, 2019 By
Richland Two board members spent almost half an hour debating how items are placed on the agenda. And that was before the agenda itself was even approved. After that, the Feb. 26 board of trustees meeting followed a familiar pattern – an overstuffed agenda, persistent questioning and complementing of each other and lengthy executive session […]
Letters: A Good Friend Gone
February 28, 2019 By
A very good friend of mine, Reed Bryan, died two weeks ago and was buried on Saturday. He was not a Saint and I was not a Saint right along with him. This tale was offered at his funeral. He owned a 60‘ Shrimp Boat for years. Shrimping was his profession until he decided to […]
Guest Editorial: E-Capital’s Crickentree plan is not legally binding
February 21, 2019 By
Following the Feb. 7 meeting at Doko Manor with Richland County Councilwoman Joyce Dickerson, Crickentree neighbors, residents of other golf courses and E-Capital representatives, I met with Geo Price, Richland County Zoning Administrator and Deputy Director of Planning. He informed me that the presentations by E-Capital which featured a reduced number of housing units (247) […]
As Blythewood Turns: R2 board condones bad behavior
February 21, 2019 By
Some Richland Two school board members have gone months – years, even – without addressing unfiled ethics forms, with five-figure fines levied against two elected officials. The Richland Two Board of Trustees had an opportunity to institute a sound system of accountability by amending board policy so that a member’s board office title could be […]
Letters: My Humble Reply to NPR
February 21, 2019 By
My response to the recent program aired by NPR about the third anniversary of the closing of Winnsboro’s Wal-Mart store. Fortunately, Fairfield choose to hold a county revival rather than a Wal-Mart-closing wake. Clearly, the Wal-Mart closing and the VC Summer fiasco served as wake up calls to the county. I’m happy to report that […]
