Articles in Editorials
In a presidential election year, we get all excited about the candidates, the ads, the debates and even what so-called experts want to tell you is important.
In a story earlier this week, Pickens County Clerk of Court Pat Welborn said his office is having problems getting enough qualified jurors for cases because some people who are called for jury duty simply do not show up.
For anyone reading this, chances are good that you or someone you know has been affected by breast cancer.
We’re not sure what the main takeaway was from this week’s joint meeting between Oconee County Council and its planning commission — the discussion was sort of all over the place — but we do believe it’s a good idea that they’re finally meeting.
We’ve written many times in this spot that reports of the demise of newspapers has been greatly exaggerated, though that hasn’t stopped many in other forms of media from telling anyone who will listen that publications such as ours are plummeting toward obscurity.
It seems most every week or month nowadays has some designation attached to it aimed at promoting a cause or bringing awareness to an issue.
An emergency scanner sits in our newsroom, and it chirps and buzzes intermittently pretty much all day every day.
South Carolina has been generally accommodating to the federal government’s nuclear waste disposal needs over the decades, based on the promise that the highly radioactive material would be eventually shipped out of Savannah River Site to a permanent storage facility.
A recent post that made the rounds on social media suggested: “The future of news is 3,000 outlets blowing up your phone about a resignation at the White House and nobody investigating school boards.”
In striving to place as many adoptable pets into homes as possible, Oconee Sheriff Mike Crenshaw’s call for variable pricing for county shelter pets makes so much sense you kind of wonder why the change hasn’t already been made.
Hopefully over the last couple weeks you’ve read our series on the School District of Oconee County’s salary structure, and we hope you found it informative.
We hope you saw our coverage of Gov. Henry McMaster’s visit to Oconee County in Thursday’s edition and, perhaps not surprisingly given that he was speaking at a Chamber of Commerce function, his message was all business.
