Articles by: Andy Brack

BRACK: Haley’s new book is craven plea for political relevance

BRACK: Haley’s new book is craven plea for political relevance

By Andy Brack, editor and publisher  |  Former S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley offers a craven mush of platitudes in a new policy book that is little more than a painful cry for political relevance.

As former President Donald Trump’s enabler in the United Nations where she served as U.S. ambassador, Haley brings together 16 essays on domestic and foreign policy in “American Strength: Conservative Solutions Worth Fighting For.” 

by · 12/12/2021 · 4 comments · Andy Brack, Views
NEWS BRIEFS: Is Lincoln Project the vanguard of American democracy?

NEWS BRIEFS: Is Lincoln Project the vanguard of American democracy?

By Andy Brack  |  America is in the throes of the largest internal political war since its first, the American Civil War, began in Charleston 160 years ago. Then, as now, the nation was being pulled apart by injustice, inequity and white supremacy. Now, however, the battlefield is far different.

by · 12/12/2021 · Comments are Disabled · Good news, News briefs
PHOTO: Steer  your browser to the City Paper for new mysteries

PHOTO: Steer  your browser to the City Paper for new mysteries

At the beginning of the year, we’ll shift our weekly Mystery Photo to the Charleston City Paper and publish it every Monday in our morning newsletter. Every weekday, the City Paper publishes a roundup of recent news.  Every afternoon, there’s a specialty newsletter on a range of issues from food (Tuesday) and music (Thursday) to arts (Monday) and opinion (weekends).

by · 12/12/2021 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos
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CALENDAR: Holy City Holiday Market is Dec. 18 

Holy City Brewing in North Charleston will cohost its seventh annual Holy City Holiday Market in Park Circle from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 18.  The brewery will also offer vendors at its brewing location down the street (1021 Aragon Ave.).

by · 12/12/2021 · Comments are Disabled · calendar
BRACK: Unite to protect America’s democracy

BRACK: Unite to protect America’s democracy

By Andy Brack, editor and publisher  |  If we don’t want to lose our freedoms and democracy in America, we’re going to have to fight to protect it.

Almost a year after the attempted violent takeover at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 by right-wing zealots, it’s surprising how few organized efforts there are to reassert the philosophical foundations of our form of government.

by · 12/06/2021 · Comments are Disabled · Andy Brack, Views
The church in Eyam, Derbyshire, England, which was closed during the plague to keep people from being too close.  Photo via Wikipedia.

BRACK: Act appropriately (this time) as new surge headed here

By Andy Brack, editor and publisher  |  There’s a big difference between knowing something, understanding it and doing something about it.

The coronavirus pandemic illustrates this trichotomy perfectly.  For example, we know it’s smart to wear masks to reduce transmission of the virus.  But if you walk around any bar, restaurant or grocery store in South Carolina today, it’s clear we don’t understand the reality. Rather than doing what we know is right (to keep wearing masks), we ignore what we know and act as if everything is hunky-dory.

by · 11/29/2021 · 1 comment · Andy Brack, Views
Dunning.  Photo provided.

CALENDAR: Dunning, CJO to bring holiday swing to Charleston Music Hall

Staff reports  |  Vocalist Zandrina Dunning will join the Charleston Jazz Orchestra (CJO) led by Maestro Robert Lewis for two Dec. 4 concerts guaranteed to put you in the holiday spirit. It’s a Charleston Jazz tradition with big band arrangements of winter classics and holiday favorites such as “Winter Wonderland,” “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and “Sleigh Bells.”

by · 11/29/2021 · Comments are Disabled · calendar
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BRACK: Henhouse redistricting abuses democratic principles

By Andy Brack, editor and publisher  |  The fix has been in by members of the S.C. House for a long time.  For months, they’ve been actors in a theatrical drama of their own creation to make it look like newly redrawn voting districts are fair. They’re not.  In fact, their laughable work will make South Carolina’s noisy partisan divides worse. 

by · 11/22/2021 · Comments are Disabled · Andy Brack, Views
BRACK: Bad idea to ban books and manufacture outrage

BRACK: Bad idea to ban books and manufacture outrage

By Andy Brack, editor and publisher  |   With the 2022 political season right around the corner, it’s wholly predictable that it’s time for some kind of manufactured moral outrage by a Republican candidate to whip the troops in line.

by · 11/15/2021 · Comments are Disabled · Uncategorized
Rotary International President Shekhar Mehta and his wife Rashi met Charleston Mayor John Tecklenburg Saturday afternoon at the Francis Marion Hotel. Also pictured are former Rotary International Vice President Anne Matthews of Columbia and the local Rotary district's current president, Paul R. Walter of Hilton Head Island. Photo provided.

FOCUS: Area Rotarians celebrate $2 million of charitable giving

By Andy Brack | South Carolina’s generosity was on full display Saturday night as about 50 big-donor Rotarians celebrated at a gala in Charleston’s Francis Marion Hotel — the very place their predecessors helped to build 97 years ago.

In attendance to pat them on the back was the most prominent Rotarian in the world — Rotary International President Shekhar Mehta of West Bengal, India. Mehta, an accountant by profession, visited the Holy City to thank Rotarians from the eastern half of the state for raising more than $2 million in new gifts of $10,000 or more over the last 18 months to help Rotary International’s philanthropic projects around the world. Among its top efforts are global projects to eradicate polio and provide clean drinking water to third-world countries.

“There are super-generous people in your area,” Mehta said in an exclusive interview. “They’re doing amazing things in the world. …

by · 11/08/2021 · Comments are Disabled · Focus, Good news