About CharlestonCurrents.com

CharlestonCurrents.com is a weekly online publication that offers insightful community comment and good news on events, accolades and accomplishments.

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The online publication, edited by seasoned Charleston journalist Marsha Guerard, includes several fresh features to connect readers better with what's happening in the Charleston area. Among them:

• TODAY'S FOCUS: Each issue will be headlined by a community commentary by a key leader on a subject of interest throughout Charleston. For example, during election time, there might be a column by a noted local political observer. Or at the approach of the spring gardening season, CharlestonCurrents.com may provide an expert's advice on how to get ready for planting.
  
  
• THE LIST: Each issue includes a community leader's list of five fun things. In one issue, a contributor might offer his favorite five red wines. In another, a Charleston observer might highlight her five favorite beach novels.
  
  
• GOOD NEWS: Our staff sorts through the jumble of information from arts groups, area attractions, government agencies and nonprofit organizations to distill the most important and interesting bits of news that are underreported in traditional media.
  
  
• REVIEWS: CharlestonCurrents.com frequently publishes reader reviews of neat books, area restaurants, performances and more to help all readers keep ahead of what's happening in the Charleston area.
  
  
• COMMENTARY: Contributing editor Ann Thrash and Publisher Andy Brack provide weekly commentaries on issues of community importance.

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Meet our team

CharlestonCurrents.com features the work of two seasoned journalists with more than 50 years of experience:

Marsha Guerard, editor. Guerard is the former deputy managing editor for The Post and Courier.

She has worked for 30 years as a reporter, editor and page designer. In addition to her new work with us, she operates the Editorially Speaking blog. She and her husband Henry have two daughters and live in Mount Pleasant.

Andy Brack, publisher. Brack, a former political reporter and U.S. Senate press secretary, offers weekly commentary in a syndicated newspaper column and through Statehouse Report, a policy and political forecast of what's going to happen at the Statehouse. He also publishes a daily online news clipping service called SC Clips.com.

Brack holds a master's degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a bachelor's degree from Duke University. A past president of the S.C. Wildlife Federation and the Rotary Club of Charleston. He is chair and president of the Center for a Better South, a pragmatic regional think tank. Brack and his family live in West Ashley.