South's Original Peanut Coming Back
Charleston is a city steeped in nostalgia, where trailing Spanish moss and antebellum architecture transport visitors to another time. But for a true time-traveling experience, one need look no further than an unassuming plot of land in the Lowcountry, just outside of...
Crowded GOP Field Will Thin Itself by 2016
These are nervous times for Republicans. After losing an election that should have been a cakewalk, Mitt Romney is back for more. After years of middling performance and sagging approval, Barack Obama’s ratings have risen to roughly where Ronald Reagan’s...News From Around the South 1/21 to 1/26
VIRGINIA: More Civil War-Era Graffiti Found CULPEPER, Va. — More Civil War-era writing has been found in the historic Graffiti House in Brandy Station. Brandy Station Foundation president Jim McKinney tells the Culpeper Star-Exponent it’s the first time...The South's 'Pullitzer headlock'
It’s often claimed all American culture stems from Southern culture, with its wide-spreading, moss-dripping branches. Music thought of as American — jazz, blues, country, bluegrass, rock, R&B, soul, funk, gospel, zydeco and Appalachian folk — either arose...Obiter Dicta
In 200-plus years of interpreting the free speech clause of the First Amendment, the courts have narrowed and expanded its Read More
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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