The revelation that Charleston County Council Chairman Elliot Summey and Charleston Mayor John Tecklenburg have signed a letter to commit $630 million of our tax dollars ("I-526-port funding deal" by Ron Brinson, Sept. 24) from the county tax referendum is a welcome insight into how they plan to spend our $ 2.1 billion over 25 years...
Warren Peper wrote a fun column a while back. I really enjoyed it, and it brought back some memories.
I want to inform the writer of the Sept. 26 letter to the editor titled "Immigrants all" that I am not an immigrant since I was born in the United States of America. This is not the first letter making this claim.
A College of Charleston student recently voiced her rejection of a "suggestion of a causal link" between drinking alcohol and sexual assault, arguing that "Cases of sexual assault are not consequences of one too many beers at a party, and cracking down on keggers therefore does nothing to target the root of the...
The Sept. 13 American Banker asserts Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) reform is "dead on arrival" because of the recent Wells Fargo fine, etc.
The rioters and protesters following the recent police shooting in Charlotte seem to have forgotten some key issues. When a police officer decides to take on the job of protecting the public, he does not give up his constitutional right to a trial by a jury of his peers. Like any other American citizen he is innocent until proven guilty.
Antisocial themes infect social media. And the people perpetuating that too-instant-reaction, online-discourse decline include petulant politicians.
Hurricane evacuation orders aren’t issued lightly. And those who fail to heed them can end up seriously regretting that decision.
ELON, N.C. — My favorite bumper sticker I’ve never seen: Commas matter.
So you don’t like either candidate in this year’s presidential contest, but you’re afraid that if you support a third party you’ll be wasting your vote?
USA Network, which last year lost the rights to the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show to FS1, will begin televising the Beverly Hills Dog Show on Easter Sunday next year.
NEW YORK — To a certain segment of the population, Scott Van Pelt is a more popular late-night television star than Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert.
Paul Arsenault lives in Summerville.
"Poole’s: Recipes and Stories from a Modern Diner." There are a number of reasons why people buy a restaurant cookbook. Some want it for their coffee table, some for armchair travel; others are restaurant fans with warm and fuzzy feelings. The latter may be thrilled to find, at last, the secret to their favorite dish, which I...
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Chickpeas are a protein-packed legume, related to lentils and lima beans. There are large, light-seeded chickpeas, also known as garbanzo beans, and small, dark-seeded chickpeas.
"The UC Davis library recent(ly) launched Label This, a crowd-sourcing project with the goal of transcribing and describing the 5,200 wine labels Amerine collected. The archive includes wine from the 1800s to the mid-20th century." — Smithsonian.com, Aug. 26, 2016
Q: My wife and I will be visiting Charleston during Thanksgiving, and are hoping for a "Southern holiday" meal. In the Phoenix area there are always great restaurants serving traditional Thanksgiving dinners, but the reservations fill up fast. I am sure that that is the same in Charleston. Thank you very much for any suggestions you...
Vegetables are everywhere at Harold’s Cabin, including on the second-floor back deck, where the restaurant cultivates them. But the undisputed star of the forage board, which chef Justin Pfau designed to ape a charcuterie plate, is the shishito pepper. Pfau calls this preparation "simple, straightforward and semi-rustic."
CHANHASSEN, Minn. — This week’s public opening of Prince’s suburban Minneapolis estate and studio complex likely will be delayed because the city council indefinitely postponed voting on a rezoning request for the complex to be operated as a museum.
NEW YORK — It was roughly 15 years ago that a high school student from Virginia named Ryan Speedo Green first visited the Metropolitan Opera on a school trip.
BARLEY, Jim, Idaho
BROWN, Sylvia Ella, 59, of Charleston died Monday. Arrangements by Dorothy’s Home for Funerals.
