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Editorial: Apathy in Georgetown County

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 20:04:12 GMT

Apathy. The dictionary says that word means a lack of interest in or concern for things. In Georgetown County and in the City of Georgetown on Tuesday, apathy was in fine form. And that’s unfortunate.

In Georgetown, the Democratic Party held i ...

Editorial: Choose wisely

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 21:35:48 GMT

Next Tuesday, June 11, registered voters in the City of Georgetown will have a chance to vote for candidates for mayor and three seats on City Council. The Democratic Party primary will run from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Anyone who is registered to vote in th ...

Editorial: No Greater Love

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:10:29 GMT

Monday is the day we officially observe Memorial Day. May 30 is the actual commemoration of the men and women who have died while in service in the armed forces of the United States.
For many of us who are veterans or family members of veterans, the ...

Letter and Editorial: GBA coverage

Mon, 13 May 2013 09:20:09 GMT

Editor's Note: We are printing this letter from Lynn Mueller as written, even though we believe that it contains factual errors. We encourage letters to the editor, but we believe that writers have a responsibility to be accurate.

We offer comments ...

House Ethics Bill: Business as usual or real reform?

Mon, 13 May 2013 09:20:05 GMT

By Barbara Zia and

Ashley Landess

Less than two weeks ago, we joined with other South Carolina groups to expose an effort by House leaders to sabotage ethics reform and evade disclosure and independent scrutiny. House leaders' plan to decriminali ...

Legislative Update

Mon, 13 May 2013 09:20:03 GMT

By Rep. Stephen L. Goldfinch

The week of the infamous "Cross-Over" is over.

Cross-Over, May 1st, is the day when all bills in the SC House of Representatives (and the SC Senate) must be passed and sent to the other body in order for it to become ...

Editorial: Georgetown Times celebrates 215 years

Tue, 07 May 2013 19:45:59 GMT

215 Years Ago ...

The Georgetown Gazette began publication. That newspaper is the direct ancestor of the Georgetown Times, which you hold in your hands today.
As best we can tell, today is our birthday.
The front page of today’s paper has a re ...

Editorial: If you get public money, then you’re a public body

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:28:41 GMT

Members of the Georgetown Business Association have come together to promote their various businesses and to help improve their revenue. That’s great, and the Georgetown Times has long supported the GBA and its predecessor, the Downtown Busines ...

Editorial: “Iron Lady” Margaret Thatcher passes on

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:45:09 GMT

Chances are, there was quite a reunion at the Pearly Gates Monday morning. The Iron Lady most likely was met by The Gipper and the once frail but tough-minded man in white, Pope John Paul II.

Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of Great Britain, Presi ...

Editorial: Solar power leasing, a good idea with potential

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 08:04:43 GMT

When you turn on a light switch you expect a dark room to brighten.
But where does that power come from? Well, usually it comes from a coal-fired power plant that adds pollutants to our air and water.
A clean alternative to coal-fired plants is solar ...

Editorial: Avoiding responsibility

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 20:31:42 GMT

Not me. No, I didn’t do it. That was somebody else’s fault. Bil Keane drew several cartoon strips over the decades, starting “The Family Circus” in 1960. It continues with son Jeff. One of the familiar characters is the ghost- ...

Editorial: Blue Light Special

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 21:33:26 GMT

Low bidders and the department store “Blue Light Special” are good things when you’re trying to save a few bucks. But as our mommas and grandmas used to say, you can also be “Penny wise and pound foolish.”

Georgetown&rs ...

Editorial: Building bridges

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 21:15:57 GMT

Once upon a time … there was an old man traveling along his way. It was getting towards evening. He had walked far that day. He came to a deep and wide river cut, but managed to get across to the other side. Once safely across, though bone-tir ...

Editorial: Public information

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:48:53 GMT

Keeping the public informed is the job of newspapers, radio and television stations. It’s also the responsibility of government, on a local, state and federal level. Just this week, newspapers across South Carolina had to tackle a misguided eff ...

Editorial: Learning from history

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 19:36:33 GMT

OK. It’s the new year. We’re starting off 2013 with the first black president. Barack Obama made history again when he was reelected to a second term. He and members of the United States House of Representatives and Senate will be working ...

Editorial: Yes, Virginia. It's still so.

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:53:23 GMT

Editor’s note: Because of the numerous requests we’ve received, we are reprinting Frank P. Church’s 1897 editorial in The New York Sun in response to a young girl’s question about Santa Claus.

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“We take pleasure in ...

Editorial: On Angels’ Wings

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 18:37:22 GMT

Evil stalked the hallways of Sandy Hook School in Newtown, Connecticut last week. That evil was personified in a 20-year-old man who first killed his mother, then took her guns and went to a school where he killed 20 children and six adults, before t ...

Editorial: Remembering Pearl Harbor

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:24:11 GMT

Today is a somber day. It’s been 71 years since naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in the Territory of Hawaii on December 7, 1941. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt called it a “day that will live in infam ...

Editorial: Giving Thanks

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 17:53:26 GMT

Regardless of menu choices, giving thanks for our blessings is a centuries-old tradition in America. The observance has its roots in the Pilgrims’ tradition in New England, but actually goes back many years earlier.

General George Washington i ...

Editorial: Voters have spoken

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 19:56:11 GMT

Tuesday, America’s citizens in little towns, rural countryside and big cities took the time to exercise their most precious freedom and responsibility. As a people we voted for President and Vice President, United States Senators and Representa ...

Editorial: All done?

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 19:46:19 GMT

By the time you read this, we should know the results of the Presidential election and local races. But as of now, voting is still underway. President Barack Obama and former Gov. Mitt Romney have been campaigning for the highest office in the land f ...

Editorial: “Whoa, Nellybelle!”

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:33:54 GMT

Pat Brady and his Jeep Nellybelle were sidekicks to Roy Rogers on his TV show in the 1950s. Before that, Brady rode a mule “Nelly” in several movies. Later, college football announcer Keith Jackson used “Whoa Nellie” sometimes ...

Editorial: 225th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 21:16:41 GMT

Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Gove ...

Editorial: Cautious atta-boys and -girls

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 21:40:23 GMT

We’d like to say congratulations to the City of Georgetown for its work on making government run more smoothly. A recent two-day workshop with the mayor, members of City Council and a facilitator focused on finding common ground and setting out ...

Editorial: Drainage Project: Are we better off now than we were $14 million ago?

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 20:45:48 GMT

Georgetown has been plagued for decades with serious flooding issues. Monday morning, despite the expenditure of some $14 million in city, state and federal funds, streets throughout the city were blocked off during a heavy rain.
And the source of al ...