Beaufort Editorial
County smart to ride texting-to-911 wave
With so many smartphones in our collective hands, it only makes sense to improve how we can use them to get help in an emergency.
Beaufort Editorial
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BEAUFORT EDITORIAL
New endowment gives county rare opportunity
The main thing children with learning differences, such as dyslexia and attention-deficit disorder, need is a level playing field.
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BEAUFORT EDITORIAL
Managing solid waste should stay a local issue
Lawmakers tend to cause trouble when they impose one-size-fits-all solutions from Columbia.
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BEAUFORT EDITORIAL
Lawmakers, governor must act to fund roads
Gov. Nikki Haley has landed on a good use for most of the $163 million in additional revenue forecast for the coming fiscal year: Use it to repair the state's crumbling roads and bridges.
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BEAUFORT EDITORIAL
Coordinated approach better serves housing effort
The city of Beaufort's Redevelopment Commission is smart to bring together local housing agencies and building organizations to identify opportunities for new construction and growth.
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BEAUFORT EDITORIAL
Proof of economic alliance's worth will be jobs, investment
An alliance between Beaufort and Sumter counties to promote economic development seems an odd marriage when you consider the geographic distances between the two and the concept of "regional."
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BEAUFORT EDITORIAL
Law helps shine light on dark crime
Human trafficking seems the kind of big city, Third World crime that shouldn't concern us here in Beaufort County and South Carolina.
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BEAUFORT EDITORIAL
Stay focused on value of logical growth control
Boats aren't the issue. Cooperation in managing growth is.
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BEAUFORT EDITORIAL
Changes to law don't answer constitutional question on dockets
Lawmakers should tread carefully as they try to "fix" criminal court scheduling in South Carolina by changing a statute.
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BEAUFORT EDITORIAL
Committee system holds promise for school board
The Beaufort County school board spends a lot more time debating how it should operate than other locally elected bodies.
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BEAUFORT EDITORIAL
City more than fair to 'Lt. Dan' organizers
Beaufort City Council was right to dismiss an appeal from the Independence Fund to further reduce its bill for services provided during the Lt. Dan Weekend.


