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Trump’s Latest Invitation to Universities
It's called the "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." It is anything but. It asks the schools who received...
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News From Around the South, 9/29 to 10/6
GEORGIA: Georgia’s highest court sides with slave descendants fighting to protect threatened island community Atlanta (AP) — Georgia’s highest court...

SC man finds hundreds of relics in neighborhood, including musket and buttons from Washington’s army
RAVENEL — Mark Anders loves hearing that beep, beep, beeping sound his metal detector makes as he scans his neighborhood for artifacts and uncovers buried treasures long lost from centuries ago. With 6,000 acres to comb through in the Poplar Grove community, sometimes spending hours in a single plot, Anders pieces together the history of the people who lived on the property since the 1600s, be...

S.C. BBQ Joint Named Best in South
A highly regarded West Columbia restaurant has been named the top barbecue joint in the South by Southern Living magazine. City Limits Barbeque,...

National park to remove photo of enslaved man’s scars
The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of “corrosive...
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Trump’s Latest Invitation to Universities
It's called the "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." It is anything but. It asks the schools who received Wednesday's letter to give up their academic freedom and adopt the right-wing partisan platform on education in exchange for preferred access to...
News From Around the South, 9/29 to 10/6
GEORGIA: Georgia’s highest court sides with slave descendants fighting to protect threatened island community Atlanta (AP) — Georgia’s highest court Tuesday sided with Black landowners in a fight over zoning changes that weakened long-standing protections for one of...
Who Will Protect Us From the Protectors?
In the same week in which President Donald Trump announced that he was federalizing 200 Oregon National Guard soldiers and dispatching them to the streets of Portland, he quietly signed a Presidential National Security Memorandum that purports to federalize policing....
SC man finds hundreds of relics in neighborhood, including musket and buttons from Washington’s army
RAVENEL — Mark Anders loves hearing that beep, beep, beeping sound his metal detector makes as he scans his neighborhood for artifacts and uncovers buried treasures long lost from centuries ago. With 6,000 acres to comb through in the Poplar Grove community, sometimes...
Beware What You Wish For
President Donald Trump wants revenge. He has made getting even the centerpiece of his administration, as if vengeance is a popular or attractive response. It isn't. Over the weekend, Trump asked Attorney General Pam Bondi on Truth Social why "nothing is being done"...