About CharlestonCurrents.com

CharlestonCurrents.com launched Nov. 3, 2008, as a new online twice-weekly 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 Ann Thrash, will include 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 will include 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 will sort 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 will publish 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: Editor Ann Thrash and Publisher Andy Brack will provide weekly commentary on issues of community importance.

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Meet our team

CharlestonCurrents.com features the work of two seasoned journalists with more than 40 years of experience:

Ann Mitchell Thrash, editor. Thrash, most recently the features editor for The Post and Courier in Charleston, is a native of Charleston who grew up in Mount Pleasant.

She received a bachelor's degree from Davidson College and worked at two small North Carolina newspapers before returning home in 1987 to work at The Post and Courier. Her nearly 20-year career at the paper included work as a reporter, special sections editor and food editor. She also served as the editor of The Moultrie News in Mount Pleasant and is the author of a recipe collection, South Carolina: Always in Season (2002). Thrash and her husband 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 S.C. 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, he currently serves as president of the Rotary Club of Charleston and chairs the Center for a Better South, a regional think tank. Brack and his family live in West Ashley.