Editorials

Through March, a special fund created with the state gas-tax-hike law had a cash balance of nearly $824 million and racked up more than $26 million in investment earnings on surpluses since July 2017, records show.

The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution consists of only 27 words, yet arguments over their meaning fill volumes that cause bookshelves to groan under their load of legal argle-bargle. A reinvigorated era of assault on firearms encouraged by President Biden is already worsening the weight.

Late last week, Colonial Pipeline was hit by a ransomware attack in which unauthorized parties gain access to a computer system and hold it hostage until a ransom is paid. The attack caused the pipeline system to shut down, which interrupted flows of liquid fuels to major cities in the Southeast and Northeast.

As a candidate for president, Joe Biden promised to “build back better” the America we knew before the pandemic lockdowns sent the economy into a tailspin. Now that he’s in office, he seems more interested in bringing back “big government.”

Over the past three years, the S.C. Department of Transportation denied a total of nearly 2,300 pothole-damage claims filed by motorists statewide – more than half of all such requests received during the period.

One could certainly argue that the South Carolina Highway Patrol should have better things to do with its time than to set aside a special week targeting litterers along the state’s highways.

In its latest annual report, the S.C. Department of Transportation claimed it patched about 679,300 potholes statewide during fiscal year 2020.

It is true that there are probably more urgent things to talk about than the removal of six books by Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss) from the market. They are not being banned or burned, just not reproduced going forward.