What is the ACLU, and are they here in South Carolina?

What is the ACLU, and are they here in South Carolina?

This past weekend the Trump administration very controversially prohibited all refugee resettlement actions into the United States and suspended or prohibited entry into the country by any person with a passport from seven predominantly Muslim countries, countries where none (that’s right, none) of the people originated who committed terrorist acts in America from 9-11 to […]

Pain is a Non-Respecter of Person Issue, Part One

Pain is a Non-Respecter of Person Issue, Part One

Did you shop at Costco during the holiday season?  I did, and I want to relay something I observed on a Sunday afternoon. Prior to entering the restroom at Costco, I was already thinking about the theme of this series of editorials, that pain is a non-respecter of person issue.  In my mind I was […]

Lift Every Voice

Lift Every Voice

“God of our weary years, God of our silent tears, Thou who hast brought us thus far on the way; Thou who hast by thy might, Led us into the light, Keep us forever in the path, we pray.” These are the opening lines of Verse Three of James Weldon Johnson’s inspiring hymn, Lift Every […]

Not State Government, but Local Government

Not State Government, but Local Government

It’s a new year, and not only that but a new odd-numbered year – which means that, like the federal Congress, our state Legislature is going into two year session until 2018, the next election year. During this session bills can be introduced, passed, signed by the Governor, and become law. Also at the beginning […]

Non-Respecter of Person Issues

Non-Respecter of Person Issues

In 2016 I wrote 36 editorials for The Edgefield Advertiser.  One third of them addressed non-respecter of person issues.  That theme, non-respecter of person issues, will continue to be prevalent in my writings in 2017 because when we boil humanity down to these issues; principles, laws, and relationships, one comes to recognize there is far […]

The Living Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Living Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Many of the readers of The Edgefield Advertiser have been following the politics of our neighboring state, North Carolina. The Republican Governor had sponsored several controversial pieces of legislation that passed the Republican-controlled legislature. These pieces included some that were viewed by the Democratic opposition as making it more difficult for poor people to vote, […]

This Week:

This Week:

Suzanne was gracious enough to offer me this space for editorials before the evolution of my decision to run and serve on Edgefield County Council.  Tuesday I was sworn in to serve the Merriwether District on County Council – and I wanted to part from my editorials to briefly share my hope as I begin […]

A Christmas Story from San Francisco

A Christmas Story from San Francisco

Your Edgefield Advertiser correspondent is in San Francisco this week before Christmas, celebrating my wife Carol’s birthday. San Francisco is an urban mixing bowl where women and men of all races, creeds, and genders have managed to live together for 200 years in an enviable level of harmony and prosperity that teaches us lessons every […]

The Holiday Season

The Holiday Season

The year 1999 was my last as an active duty Navy Officer, and as the Christmas season approached I found myself working as a defense contractor. My new employer won a contract to see how Defense Department computers would react to what was then the unknown new idea of Y2K – the year 2000 – […]

Thoughts on Pearl Harbor, Part Two

Thoughts on Pearl Harbor, Part Two

In last week’s editorial (http://www.edgefieldadvertiser.com/2016/12/thoughts-on-pearl-harbor-part-one/) I shared some initial thoughts on two competing cultures, and their success in the last 75 years producing resilient societies.  I tied that theme to the 75th Anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, comparing the 1940’s jewel of our republic, Detroit, to the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; cities […]

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