It’s easy for prisoners to be out of sight, out of mind, until an explosion of violence like the tragedy at Lee Correctional Institution that left seven inmates dead and 17 others hospitalized. The carnage highlights the critical need to fill vacant guard positions and to speed up much-needed reforms.
Mark Zuckerberg rightly faces a congressional grilling this week about Facebook’s failure to protect users’ personal information. It is high time that Congress addressed the issue of internet privacy, but it won’t be the first time Mr. Zuckerberg and his company have faced federal scrutiny.
“Insidious.”
“Pro-Trump propaganda.”
These are some of the words and phrases being used to criticize a recent statement from some of Sinclair Broadcast Group’s television outlets.
Earlier this month, a number of freshman lawmakers filed legislation to call a convention to amend the South Carolina Constitution.
The media has a responsibility to be the eyes and ears of local residents. That’s the reason we exist. We are here to inform, report and make sure things that happen in public are available to all the public—even if you can’t be there to see it for yourself.
Toward the middle of each March, open-government advocates observe “Sunshine Week.” It’s used to raise awareness of the dangers of closed-door government and the importance of so-called “sunshine laws.”
Once upon a time, stealing a person’s identity would have seemed far fetched. The stuff of movies. Now it appears to be easy.
And the problem is growing.
Can we resolve to do something?
Can we take action so that when the next mass shooting occurs, we aren’t sitting here wondering if there was something we could have done?
This is not a call for gun control or background checks or arming teachers or more school security. It is just a call for action.
If you’ve got shopping to do, the national “big-box” and e-commerce retailers can seem like an appealing option. They’re often located close to the Interstate.
When President Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court one year ago, the nation’s media, political class, judicial interest groups, and citizenry began to debate Judge Gorsuch’s merits and record.
