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At the Feb. 26 endorsement of Biden in Charleston were (l-r): former Charleston councilman Paul Tinkler, former Charleston Mayor Joe Riley, S.C. Sen. Marlon Kimpson, U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn, Charleston County Auditor Peter Tecklenburg, Biden. | Photo by Adam Schultz / Biden for President

FOCUS: South Carolina played key role in Biden victory

By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | It can be argued that without South Carolina, Biden wouldn’t be president-elect.

In February, he won the Democratic presidential primary in South Carolina. It was his first big win that preceded a string of wins built on the strong backing of U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn, the Palmetto State’s kingmaker. Clyburn’s endorsement of Biden in late February is widely viewed as the key to Biden’s win here, which was key to securing the nomination.

But much earlier, the late U.S. Sen. Fritz Hollings, who was chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in 1972, tapped Biden as the Democrat for Washington senators to support in the Delaware race for U.S. Senate. Then 29, Biden was a county councilman and unknown to many.

“He ended up taking a chance on me,” Biden said in April 2019 at Hollings’ funeral.

by Andy Brack · 11/09/2020 · 1 comment · Focus, Good news

NEW for 11/9: S.C.’s election role; Hartsville funnyman; 2020 SUCKS concert

IN THIS EDITION
TODAY’S FOCUS: South Carolina played key role in Biden victory
COMMENTARY, Brack: Meet the Hartsville man who can make you laugh
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Morris Financial Concepts, Inc.
NEWS BRIEFS: Statehouse will be different for Dems in 2021
FEEDBACK: Send us your thoughts
MYSTERY PHOTO: Orange archway
CALENDAR: City Paper to offer 2020 SUCKS virtual concert with McCain, Hall

by Andy Brack · 11/09/2020 · Comments are Disabled · Full issue

NEWS BRIEFS: Hollings terminal now welcomes airport visitors

Staff reports | Charleston International Airport’s main passenger terminal now has signage that designates it as the Ernest F. Hollings Terminal.

Hollings, a South Carolina Democrat who served in the United States Senate for 38 years and was the state’s governor from 1959-63, was a key overseer of aviation policy and funding while a powerful member of two committees, the Senate Commerce Committee and the Senate Appropriations Committee. He died April 6, 2019 at age 97.

by Charleston Currents · 09/07/2020 · Comments are Disabled · Good news, News briefs

NEW for 9/7: Animal Society contest; Protecting democracy; More

IN THIS EDITION:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Two days left to enter Animal Society’s cool beer contest
COMMENTARY, Brack: A 2020 guide for protecting democracy
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: SCIWAY
NEWS BRIEFS: Hollings terminal now welcomes airport visitors
FEEDBACK: Send us your thoughts
MYSTERY PHOTO: Breaking a sweat
CALENDAR: More local music is on tap
NEW BOOK: Pre-order your copy today

by Charleston Currents · 09/07/2020 · 1 comment · Full issue

MYSTERY PHOTO: Green Art

This creative topiary had a guest photographer laughing so hard that he forgot to write down the location. We now know where it is. Do you? Send your guess to mailto:editor@charlestoncurrents.com. And don’t forget to include your name and the town in which you live.

Our previous Mystery Photo: Our April 15 mystery, “What is this photo all about?” was a photo from the 1954 election campaign of Charleston’s Ernest F. Hollings when he won the seat to be South Carolina’s lieutenant governor.

by Charleston Currents · 04/29/2019 · Comments are Disabled · Features

BRACK: Democrats should lighten up, but GOP shouldn’t be tone-deaf

By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | If there ever were someone who understands how something said by a politician was “just a joke,” you’re reading a column by him.

You see, I once worked as the press secretary for former U.S. Sen. Fritz Hollings, an outstanding South Carolinian known far and wide for a great wit, biting and otherwise.

by Andy Brack · 09/04/2018 · Comments are Disabled · Andy Brack, Views

MYSTERY PHOTO: At the top of the building

This week’s mystery focuses on the top of a South Carolina building. That’s the only clue you get. Send your guess to editor@charlestoncurrents.com with “Mystery Photo” in the subject line. Please make sure to include your name and contact information.

Last issue’s mystery: The April 23 Mystery Photo, scrubbed by us of the identifying name carved in stone, showed the J. Waites Waring federal courthouse annex near the Four Corners of Law at Meeting and Broad streets.

by Charleston Currents · 04/30/2018 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos

GOOD NEWS: Exhibit of Cuba photographs on display at main library

Staff reports | “Cuba, 2015” is a series of large digital photographs now on display at the Saul Alexander Gallery at the main branch of the Charleston County Public Library. The photos showcase glimpses of Cuba taken during an August 2015 trip by a group organized by Magnolia Plantations and Gardens.

The photographs by Charleston Currents editor and publisher Andy Brack first were published in this weekly journal.

“While you get something of a feel of life in Cuba in the online presentations of the photos from 2015, the large-scale, framed format offered in the exhibition gives a different feel – a depth that doesn’t come out on the computer screen,” Brack said. “I encourage you to stop by the library, see the photos and provide your reactions in a comment book in the gallery.”

The exhibition will run through the end of January.

by Charleston Currents · 01/01/2018 · 1 comment · Good news, News briefs

MYSTERY PHOTO: Very official-looking room

Hanahan photographer Chuck Boyd sent along this very official-looking local mystery. But what and where is it? Send your best guess – plus your name and hometown – to editor@charlestoncurrents.com. In the subject line, write: “Mystery Photo guess.”

Virginia sleuth solves tough mystery
Last week’s mystery was one of the toughest ever. It sought the location of a portrait of retired Democratic U.S. Sen. Fritz Hollings of Isle of Palms was one of the toughest in a long time.

Chris Brooks of Mount Pleasant got a half mark for knowing that the portrait was moved from what was the Hollings Judicial Center before it was renamed for the late federal judge Waties Waring. Upon the renaming, which was requested by Hollings (the only time a federal building has been renamed like this), the portrait was moved to Columbia.

But only one Currents reader — George Graf of Palmyra, Va., — knew that the portrait is now in a room in a new part of the Thomas Cooper Library at the University of South Carolina that is named in honor of Hollings.

by Charleston Currents · 12/18/2017 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos

FEEDBACK: Hollings helped stir nation to confront hunger

Herbert J. Hartsook: ‘Thank you for drawing attention to the continuing problem of hunger. Years ago, state senator Isadore Lourie said that Senator Hollings “put a spotlight on that issue probably as the only man in the state at that time that could have done it. … He had the prestige and the stature and a tremendous political following in the state. I think through that mechanism and through the force of his dynamic personality, he was able to get the conscience of South Carolinians stirred up and concerned.””

by Charleston Currents · 07/17/2017 · Comments are Disabled · Feedback