News From Around the South 8/20 to 8/27
TENNESSEE: Black Pastors, Confederate Descendants Share Civil War History in Tennessee Town FRANKLIN, Tenn. — African-American pastors recently touring a restored Confederate plantation here stopped to look at the rocks in the grass near a path between the ivory...
The Death of a Hero
The president’s former campaign chairman stands convicted of eight felony counts. The president’s formal personal lawyer is pleading guilty and cooperating. No one is above the law but the president. And with his help, all his friends are, too. What does...
Last Flag Flown Ready for Display
COLUMBIA — The last Confederate flag flown on Statehouse grounds will be on display at South Carolina’s military history museum within the next few months, though exactly where remains uncertain. After three years of wrangling over exhibit costs and space, Confederate...
The Opioid Lawsuit Crisis
Money-grabbing politicians looking to cover the whopping costs of the opioid crisis are filing more than a thousand lawsuits against the prescription painkiller industry. That’s like suing the fast-food industry to pay all the societal costs of obesity....Obiter Dicta
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SOUTH CAROLINA: With location and design selected, SC’s Robert Smalls monument needs funding The monument is expected to cost between $1 million and $2 million for the cost of the Read More