It Didn’t Used to Be This Way
One telling detail keeps escaping the men and women of words who would end school shootings by one expedient or another: gun control, better security, the arming of teachers, more careful vetting of potential gunmen and so forth. The detail of which I speak: We...
Winn-Dixie Bankruptcy Approved
Winn-Dixie’s parent company Southeastern Grocers plans to emerge from bankruptcy in “coming weeks,” after a judge approved its reorganization plan on Monday, officials said. Jacksonville-based Southeastern Grocers filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy...
‘Dixie’ Reveals South’s Culture, History
The history of Dixie is as messy as it is long: a southern folk song that was claimed to be written by an Ohioan, as well as a favorite tune of Abraham Lincoln that was later claimed as a spoil of war. ‘Dixie,’ used both to celebrate and indict the south, was...
Denying Trump’s Accomplishments Irrational
Some people still can’t stomach the idea of a Donald Trump presidency and so remain in denial about his mounting policy successes, but their resistance is looking increasingly proud and petty. It’s risky to predict future trends, especially the political...
News From Around the South 5/7 to 5/14
NORTH CAROLINA: Ground Broken on $65M Civil War History Center FAYETTEVILLE, N.C.: Ground was ceremonially broken in Fayetteville on Wednesday for a $65 million museum complex dedicated to the Civil War era, the most divided period in American history. Participants at...Obiter Dicta
In a scene in Robert Bolt’s famous play “A Man for All Seasons,” about the treason trial of St. Thomas Read More
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SOUTH CAROLINA: New S.C. license plate honors Revolutionary War history COLUMBIA – Beginning Jan. 1, South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles will issue a newly designed standard license plate that Read More