Opinion

But will the new tax money go to repair the roads?

New SC gas tax spending will be published online

The years-long debate over South Carolina road funding stirred strong feelings all around. While tax hike advocates made a passionate case about the need for infrastructure repairs, their plan — which raises the fuel tax by 12 cents over six years, in addition to other tax and fee increases — will put a noticeable pinch on our wallets. It’s hard to fault those who opposed it, given the ever-increasing demands being placed on them by their various layers of government.

Letters to the Editor

Address Hilton Head workforce problem — now

Something is very wrong on Hilton Head Island.

Letters to the Editor

Trump’s list of accomplishments is long, distinctive and significant

The headline on the cover of Time magazine said: “General John Kelly: Trump’s Last Best Hope.”

Letters to the Editor

Trying to erase past sins throws society into limbo

For some, Civil War and Confederate statues are a grim reminder of past history never to be repeated. Our history is tainted just as it is for all humankind.

Letters to the Editor

Public lawsuits need scrutiny

Hilton Head Island Town Council member Kim Likins, Bluffton Mayor Lisa Sulka and Skip Hoagland should study two U.S. Supreme Court decisions relevant to their cases.

Letters to the Editor

Design for Beaufort garage needs help

Currently there is a proposal in front of the Historic Review Board for the construction of a large parking garage in the center of Beaufort’s historic downtown.

Letters to the Editor

Tips for sorting through the media landscape

Can we trust the media?

Letters to the Editor

Tree-cutting decision raises questions

I found your article on the tree removal on North Forest Beach interesting, and it brought another subject to mind.

Letters to the Editor

Past is the past and that cannot change

The recent letter from Cynthia Bensch was excellent. She is absolutely right on target. Until the media chooses to stop beating that drum and moves on to something else, you should publish her letter in every issue.

Letters to the Editor

What’s to celebrate in Jim Crow symbols?

If you travel today in Italy you will find no historical symbols or public displays of any kind as reminders of that country’s participation in World War II. The reason: they lost the war and came to realize they were on the side of evil in the first place.

Letters to the Editor

School district has credibility problem

Regarding the school redistricting article that appeared on Aug. 15, would Beaufort County residents approve a plan to fund $300 million for school expansion and upgrades prior to Superintendent Jeff Moss and the school board fully explaining in detail the $30 million charged on school district credit cards?

Letters to the Editor

A soup line

Message to Trump by the resignation of Campbell’s CEO: No soup for you!

The Mitchelville Preservation Project can pull Hilton Head Islanders together with a shared history and source of community pride, like this day in 2013 when leaders of the Toni Morrison Society unveiled a “Bench by the Road” at the town’s Mitchelville Freedom Park on Beach City Road to encourage people to reflect upon the importance of one of America’s first self-governing communities of freed slaves that once stood there.

Other Views

Our strength as a community, from David Bennett, Steve Riley

Steps Hilton Head has taken toward racial unity and equity lead to plea that residents get out and meet each other.

Letters to the Editor

Provide for long-term workers, not temps

Your newspaper gave us an article about employers wanting to bring more temporary workers here on work visas. We have thousands of workers already here who need work visas or even better legal residency, but they are not from the designated countries, like Thailand and Jamaica. They are from neighboring places.

Letters to the Editor

Punish violence, but do not remove history

What is the root of the violence in Virginia?

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Why Americans won’t work

We must import poor, unskilled workers to do the jobs Americans just won’t do. Why won’t we do them? The government pays our poor people through welfare not to work.

Donald Trump speaks before a crowd of 3,500 in Phoenix in 2015 as he campaigns for the presidency.

Opinion

Trump’s still campaigning when he needs to govern

President Donald Trump is still in campaign mode, but he’s still struggling to deliver the changes he promised.

Letters to the Editor

It’s a win-win for Hilton Head to ban plastic bags

Upon pondering the plastic bag ban, I realize that if Hilton Head Island wants to remain a premier vacation destination it is time to move forward with this ban.

Letters to the Editor

Science clear on climate change

Recent letters to the editor have defended Donald Trump’s disastrous decision to abandon the Paris climate accord by claiming that human actions are not heating up the planet.

Letters to the Editor

Don’t let them cut retiree COLAs

As a federal retiree who has served our country for years, I am deeply concerned with a provision in the president’s budget that would eliminate cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) for current and future federal retirees. I ask that my representative and senators oppose any proposals that would reduce COLAs for federal retirees.

Videos

Seabrook farmer's calls it quits, last stand at local markets

Jul 13, 2017

Urbie West of Seabrook, S.C., speaks about his last day at the Bluffton Farmers Market and the end of Pinckney Produce. West and his family will no longer farm the land they have had in their family since 1884.

David Lauderdale Staff video