Category: Opinion

Baseball games are speeding up. Golfers are being encouraged to speed up. Kids are being put in accelerated classes to speed up their education. Traffic on many highways, here and elsewhere, is speeding up and crashes are...

Floods can happen anywhere, anytime. Just one inch of water in a home can cause more than $25,000 worth of damage.  Naturally occurring events, including hurricanes, storm surges, high tides, and heavy rains, may cause flooding...

To the Editor: Did you know that there can’t be birds without bugs, the little things that run the world? These are precarious weeks when our land birds are raising babies in their nests, and we can ease their efforts to find...

Poets through the ages inspire and delight readers, writers With this feature, we seek to capture a glimpse of what you and your neighbors have to say about a variety of topics, issues, events – and just plain fun questions. ...

In late April, the Senate sent to the House their version of the 2023-24 State Budget, which had few changes from what we had sent three weeks earlier to them.  The next step is for a joint committee from both houses to iron out...

Have you ever considered just how smart you are? Do you know that just by virtue of being human, you have an amazing cognitive superpower? We all have it – humans, I mean. We have the innate ability to be friendly. It has been...

Throughout my involvement with the Town government, there is one thing I know for sure – we will always have to manage growth on Hilton Head Island.  Our traffic, the strain on our roadways, our increasing population, and the...

To the Editor: In regards to repealing the Blaine Amendment, Mr. Weston Newton (editorial, March 14 issue of Bluffton Sun) doesn’t mention that the money diverted to non-public religious schools will further deprive funding...

Find something to love about spring in the Lowcountry With this feature, we seek to capture a glimpse of what you and your neighbors have to say about a variety of topics, issues, events – and just plain fun questions. You might...

March 2023 was one of the more significant months I have experienced during my time as your legislative representative in the South Carolina General Assembly. I’m proud of the direction we are currently taking on many fronts in...

Scholars of democracy, political observers, and everyday Americans of all stripes have come to fear for our democracy.  Former President Jimmy Carter, whose Carter Center is a strong defender of democracy around the world, made...

“As spring approaches, it’s a time of renewal and growth, a time to shed the old and embrace the new. The world comes alive again after a long, cold winter, with trees and flowers budding, birds chirping, and the sun shining...

February was filled with several issues on the floor of the General Assembly that stirred the passions of our two opposing political parties. I was at the heart of one of these controversial debates as I headed the floor fight...

To the Editor: It has been said, a good attitude is a virtue.  Just what is attitude? Webster’s definition states, “attitude is a manner of acting, thinking or feeling that shows one’s disposition, opinion or mental set.” ...

Let’s celebrate you with a feast; what’s on the table? With this feature, we seek to capture a glimpse of what you and your neighbors have to say about a variety of topics, issues, events – and just plain fun questions.  You...