News From Around the South 1/13 to 1/20 - VIRGINIA: Virginia Museum of History and Culture launches Revolution Revisited podcast Calling all history buffs! The Virginia Museum of History and Culture is launching a podcast that you don’t want to miss. “Explore the American Revolution in a whole new way with the stories that shaped a nation,” VMHC says. “Revolution Revisited” offers a fresh […]
Minors and Pornography - Of course the state has a legitimate interest in preventing minors from accessing porn online that is intended for adults. Who could be against that? Certainly not the state of Texas, which overwhelmingly passed a law requiring porn sites to verify the age of users seeking access to their sites. Sort of like showing your […]
80 Years Later, Movie Tells Story of SC Woman’s Battalion During World War II - COLUMBIA — When Charity Adams Earley was sent across seas in 1944 , she was faced with a monumental task: Get millions of pieces of mail to the soldiers meant to receive them. Under her leadership, a battalion of Black women nicknamed the Six Triple Eight (for the 6888th) sorted and sent the mail in […]
A Well-Deserved Takedown of the California Political Class - WASHINGTON — Actress Sara Foster captured the rage of many Angelenos who have watched their city burn from the Palisades to Altadena in one social media post: “We pay the highest taxes in California. Our fire hydrants were empty. Our vegetation was overgrown, brush not cleared. Our reservoirs were emptied by our governor because tribal […]
News From Around the South, 1/6 to 1/13 - SOUTH CAROLINA: S.C. Parks Dept. Seeks $18M to Open Four New State Parks COLUMBIA — Four new state parks could open in 2025, if South Carolina’s parks department receives the $18 million it has requested from the state Legislature. The planned parks would join 48 the Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism already operates, only […]
