The holidays are coming.For most of us, that means we are wrapping up our holiday shopping or, if you’re like me, you’re just getting started on those Christmas wish lists.

On paper, Saturday’s matchup between Clemson and South Carolina should be heavily tilted toward the Tigers.

Thanksgiving, we’re told, is a lost holiday — a footnote during the Christmas shopping season. 

Judge Steven H. John’s ruling that South Carolina’s civil asset forfeiture law violates the Fourth, Fifth and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution was a victory for due process, private property rights and the protections afforded to every South Carolina citizen.

Willie says: As we gather with family and friends to give thanks for our blessings this Thanksgiving 2019, did you know the 1621 Plymouth (Massachusetts) feast and thanksgiving was prompted by a good harvest, which the Pilgrims celebrated with Native Americans, who helped them get through the previous winter by giving them food in that time of scarcity?

Although we don’t yet have a medicine that will cure or prevent dementia, we do know many ways people with memory loss can improve.

I’d like to start this month’s column by wishing you a Happy Thanksgiving.

Editor: As its name implies, the Environmental Protection Agency is supposed to protect the environment for us all.

Willie: Who pays for military airplane flyovers at any sporting events?

South Carolinians are a giving people, making Monday’s news that a charity operating in Seneca two months ago is in trouble with the state both disturbing and frustrating.

Editor: I purchased a home in need of modest renovation located in the “Historic District” of Seneca.

Editor: I would like to thank the Seneca Police Department for its generous donations given to the Oconee Memorial Hospital Foundation in memory of my late wife, Rosemarie A. Pringle, and to thank all the people that made her happy being a part of the Seneca Police Department family.