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News From Around the South 12/23 to 12/30

by RIS Secure | Dec 30, 2019 | Archive, Southern Partisan

SOUTH CAROLINA: Charleston’s Emancipation Day Festival’ May Be Nation’s Oldest CHARLESTON, S.C. — Celebrants will gather on January 1 to ring in the new year, but in Charleston, residents will also continue what’s possibly the nation’s only...

News From Around the South 12/16 to 12/23

by RIS Secure | Dec 23, 2019 | Archive, Southern Partisan

GEORGIA: Civil War Park Closer to Reality, But Not A Name MABLETON, Ga. — Cobb County is moving forward on construction of a new park in Mableton that remains nameless nearly two years after controversy erupted over whether the name should reflect the site’s...

Why Most Civil War Monuments Remain

by RIS Secure | Dec 20, 2019 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Last month, a 112-year-old Confederate statue came down in Pittsboro, N.C., after a legal battle between the statue’s opponents and defenders. This was the 108th Confederate monument that has come down in the past three years via officeholders’ decisions. All told,...

Dems Unite and Galvanize GOP

by RIS Secure | Dec 20, 2019 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Nothing has done more to unite Republicans — from GOP congressmen in Washington, D.C., to malodorous Walmart patrons in rural America — than the Democrats’ quixotic, vendetta-fueled crusade against President Donald Trump. Trump’s election was a seismic...

Cheers for Trump’s Uranium Plan

by RIS Secure | Dec 17, 2019 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Our sources are telling us that President Trump is nearing a decision on how to revive the all-but-dormant American uranium industry. This proposed plan would create a reserve of domestically mined uranium stored in a “Federal Uranium Security Stockpile.”...

News From Around the South 12/9 to 12/16

by RIS Secure | Dec 16, 2019 | Archive, Southern Partisan

SOUTH CAROLINA: Graves May Be In Way of Power Lines on Historic Island Nobody knows just how haunted “Ghost Island” might be. An electric company and the island’s owner might be forced to find out. The Coastal Conservation League has asked state regulators not to...