The San Francisco Forty Niners quarterback, Colin Kaepernick’s sit-down protest during the national anthem at football games is the wrong strategy for voicing his displeasure about racial injustices. Mr. Kaepernick certainly has a constitutional right

On behalf of the South Carolina Dental Association and the local Dental Access Days (DAD) Committee, we wish to express our profound appreciation to the community volunteers, businesses, and organizations who contributed their time, supplies, food, and

To those of you that normally vote Republican but think you just can’t vote for Donald Trump, please read on. Same to those of you that normally vote Democrat but just can’t vote for Hillary Clinton. Someone recently predicted in a letter to the editor

In the Morning News on February 28, 2016 a State Brief from Columbia said: “Counties have made plans to spend less than half of the $216 million in road money that lawmakers set aside for them last year. The Greenville News reports that only $4 million do

Well, we all have to go vote again in a runoff election for Florence City Council District #2 on Tuesday, June 21. My candidate in the first voting cycle was Pat Gibson-Hye Moore and my candidate in the runoff election will remain the same. I know she’s

To anyone that is a conservative or moderate that is thinking you can’t vote for Donald Trump, please reconsider. If you choose to not vote that is the same as a vote for who I consider to be tied for first place as the worst presidential candidate ever.

I am a retired educator from Florence School District 1. I’m asking you to vote for Alexis D. Pipkins Sr. for Florence City Council District 2. I have known Alexis since he was a young boy selling barbecue sandwiches and skins with his father.

This letter is to inform you of a local heroine in my community. Her achievements have touched me greatly and I would like to share my inspiration.

I’m writing this letter because Miss Pat. She has always cared so much about us young people. I remember when I was around 11 years old, Miss Pat took a bunch of boys to Camp Fever in the woods during the summer, from Friday to Sunday. She took a

Moore wants what’s best for Florence

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a

Lighthouse Ministries wants to thank our more than 40 active volunteers for all they do to strengthen our community, and for supporting Lighthouse Ministries mission. The work they do is truly extraordinary. National Volunteer Week, April 10-16, is a

Sometimes you don’t realize how blessed you are to have someone until he or she is gone. When I looked at an email alert Wednesday, I realized that feeling. Ed Robinson’s early and unexpected death was shocking and saddening to me. He once said, “Will

Why must the Republican leaders in Congress copy the Democrats? Why can’t they think for themselves? Why is a question I’ve been asking for years in regards to the Republicans in Congress. “Why” and “what on earth are they thinking?” President Obama has

A recent opinion letter said that government is not a business and as such should not be run like one. As I see it, if a government is run by competent people that are held accountable for their actions, that may be true.