Earlier this month, Historic Columbia’s Palladium group was recognized at the Association of Fundraising Professional’s National Philanthropy Day Awards as the recipient of the Outstanding Volunteer Group Fundraiser award. To receive this award, a fundraising group must demonstrate “outstanding skills in coordinating and motivating volunteers” for various projects to benefit a non-profit’s mission. For Palladium, this award represented more than […]

West Columbia Sunset Blvd.: Police were called to an auto sales lot at 2 p.m. Tuesday after the caller said a woman was causing a disturbance at the business. When officers arrived they saw the accused woman in an obvious agitated state. The man who identified himself as the caller told the officers he and the woman had been in […]

Not sure if you’ve noticed but the Deep State of Capitalism is getting sneaky about making more money. In past decades, it was accepted that big business would profit. When they started making too little money, most companies would either increase prices or close down. Or find more efficient ways of running that particular business. That was in the old […]

When I heard Kathy’s laughter tinkling across the airport that morning, I knew I was busted. My girlfriend Kathy and I were flying to New York on the last leg of our whirlwind travels in the last couple of months. We had gone to Italy at the end of September and on that mid-October Wednesday morning we were headed to […]

I recently made the mistake of entering a local big box technology store to find a new phone cover for my iPhone. When an associate saw me struggling to find one that fit, he asked me what version of iPhone I had. “A 6-plus,” I answered not entirely sure I was correct about that. It didn’t matter. Even if I […]