Columns & Letters

To the editor, and all of those who travel Fews Bridge Road over Lake Robinson, especially at night.

May 22, 2014 is the night the lights went out in Blue Ridge. Since the spring of 2008, those of you that have traveled over the lake have witnessed a cross lit at night and early in the morning.

President, CEO Greer Chamber

By Richard Eckstrom
S.C. Comptroller
For The Greer Citizen

South Carolina is nearly a thousand miles from Boston, Massachusetts.

Once again, some of our legislators are meddling in matters that don’t concern them (“State government should stay out of college curriculum,” by William Buchheit, March 19, 2014). The house voted to penalize USC Upstate and the College of Charleston for assigning books with gay and lesbian themes.

Read 2 Samuel 6:12-22

David said, “I will celebrate before the Lord. I will become even more undignified than this, and I will be humiliated in my own eyes.” -2 Samuel 6:21-22 (NIV)

Last week while many of us were snowed in, Gov. Nikki Haley was signing a document to allow concealed firearms to legally be carried in restaurants and bars without the once required eight hour training and while abstaining from alcohol.

Read Matthew 17:14-21

Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you. -Matthew 17:20-21 (NIV)

My brother, Matthew, and I are four years apart and we lived together for a brief six years of our lives, and as a result, we’ve always had a strained relationship. Most siblings don’t have to try to be siblings, but we do.