By Paul Gable Horry County Sen. Luke Rankin (R-Dist 33) performed well for his friends and contributors in the last month of the recent legislative session by holding off Senate passage of a bill that would have eliminated a government monopoly on garbage disposal in Horry County. Called the “Business Freedom to Choose Act,” Rankin [...]
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Make The ‘Bloodhound of Justice” Your First Source For News On The Congressional Race
By James G. Wiles Want to see the effect of new media, the decline of print media and the shrinkage of other traditional sources of news and opinion such as TV and cable on the state of our politics and an informed electorate? Look no farther than the race for the Grand Strand’s new 7th [...]
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By Paul Gable In what can only be called an arrogant abuse of parliamentary procedure, Horry County Council chairman Tom Rice called a five minute break, in the midst of debating an ordinance on the floor, because voting on amendments to the ordinance didn’t go his way. This blatant lack of respect for the elected [...]
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By James G. Wiles Republicans shouldn’t take the new Congressional seat here for granted So maybe you’re thinking (like most Republicans along the Grand Strand): even if the national election is in doubt, at least the GOP is going to pick up one more Congressional seat from South Carolina. That spanking new Seventh Congressional District [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Myrtle Beach Debate Jumpstarts Gingrich Victory
By Paul Gable If Newt Gingrich should go on to claim the Republican presidential nomination, he will fondly remember Myrtle Beach as the place his success began. Coming into the Myrtle Beach presidential debate, Gingrich had suffered two significant defeats at the hands of Iowa and New Hampshire voters and learned that opponent Rich Santorum [...]
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By James G. Wiles Republicans Shouldn’t Take the New Congressional Seat Here for Granted Here we are in another Presidential election year. Earlier this month, all the GOP presidential candidates were in town for the big “First in the South” GOP Presidential Primary Debate on Monday night at the Convention Center. So maybe you’re thinking [...]
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By Paul Gable A potential missing $60,000 in funds paid to plaintiffs attorneys is just the latest of the strange twists and turns of the Southern Holdings case. Attorneys John Rakowsky and Adrian Falgione, who represented the plaintiffs in the Southern Holdings case, have been in a three-year fight to not provide the plaintiffs with [...]
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Illuminating The Light Bulb Ban
By Douglas Decker Editor’s Note: The following article was submitted by a recognized expert on the subject of energy efficiency. He explains the reasons for and advantages of discontinuing use of the traditional incandescent light bulb. Maybe you’ve heard that the federal government has outlawed the incandescent light bulb effective Jan.1, 2012. Well, that’s not [...]
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