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...Obiter Dicta
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SOUTH CAROLINA: ‘Just wonderful’: USC musicians perform at Congaree National Park for country’s 250th birthday In a celebration of American music, the student performers also hoped to introduce more people Read More