This is the last time I am responding about this issue unless I am summoned to speak in Columbia, because, quite frankly I am tired of repeating myself. I am coughing on all the smoke being used to cloud the true issue. More...

By Frank Knapp Jr. Consensus is building among health care stakeholders in South Carolina about how to use new revenue from an increase in the cigarette tax. More...

As I was lying in bed with a 103- degree fever feeling generally like someone who had been dropped from a second story window then kicked and beaten by a USC football player coming from Five Points, a strange feeling came over me. More...

Mayor Avery Wilkerson, Mayor Pro-tem Rick Myers, Councilman Kenneth Jumper, Councilman Robert Malpass, City Manager John Sharpe, Public Safety Chief Charles McNair, and City Attorney Danny Crowe were all in attendance. More...

Call to Order Mayor Horton called the meeting to order at 6 pm. All council members - Mayor Bobby E. Horton, Mayor Pro- Tem Tommy G. Parler, Eric Fowler, L. Dale Harley, Jack L. Harmon, Boyd J. Jones, Marsha J. Moore, Cathy Shannon and B.J. More...

World of Wonder EdVenture Children's Museum, located in the heart of Columbia's Vista, is 67,000 square feet of fun and educational discovery. More...

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The Marriott in Downtown Columbia was the site of the Columbia Junior Cotillion's 14th Annual Spring Ball. More...

The February meeting of the Petal Pushers Garden Club was held at the home of Margaret Glenn. Co- hostesses were Betty Lewis and Joan Heard. The Annual Auction was the highlight of the meeting. More...

ART The Columbia Museum of Art will be showing Excavating Egypt:Great Discoveries from the Patrie Museum of Egyptian Achaeology through June 8. www.columbiamuseum. org for more information. More...

My uncle, J.K. Gourdin IV, arranged his own funeral. A female Unitarian minister conducted the service. A black gospel choir sang spirituals in the chapel. A guitarist and saxophonist played Dixie at the graveside in the old St. More...

Members of General Marion's Brigade Chapter, National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), and friends from the Lowcountry gathered February 27 at Belle Isle Plantation cemetery to give honor to the most illustrious of all S.C. More...

_____________________________ NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that Lite-Um-Up Cigars, LLC intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale on premises consumption of Beer, a More...