CRONY CAPITALISM? Google is drawing criticism over what some say is its excessive use of Lowcountry water resources. The company needs massive amounts of groundwater to...
YES … We get lots of letters. And we try to answer most of them. Some of them come via our contact page. Others via email. Others come...
WILDFIRES CREATE PUBLIC HEALTH HAZARD … Millions of South Carolina awoke to the news that they were under a “Code Red” air quality alert as smoke...
ANOTHER WELFARE AGENCY SCANDAL … By now, it should be abundantly clear to anyone paying attention that South Carolina governor Nikki Haley’s welfare agency – the...
CURIOUS CHEMICAL CONSIDERATIONS … We’re not ready to call the whole Zika thing a hoax. Obviously it’s a real disease. Mosquitos clearly spread it. And we think it’s...
BACTERIA SPIKES ACCOMPANY SUMMER STORMS Dozens of visitors to Myrtle Beach, S.C. have reported contracting various illnesses due to unsafe spikes in bacteria levels in the water....
CANDIDATE DOING “DEEP DIVE” ON STATE SPENDING Former S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control (SCDHEC) director Catherine Templeton is taking steps to position herself as...
ANOTHER PALMETTO “DIRTY WATER” SCANDAL In case you missed it, there’s another “no swim” scandal in South Carolina. Only this time we’re not referring to chronic...
MARK SANFORD DODGES A BULLET … FOR NOW The staggering vulnerability of maverick-turned-mushy U.S. congressman Mark Sanford has the South Carolina Lowcountry buzzing about potential 2018...
RASH OF NEW BACTERIA READINGS RAISE FRESH CONCERNS OVER COASTAL WATER QUALITY … In case you missed it our founding editor Will Folks and his family...