Corporate farming: Who owns the world’s seeds?
This summer, agrochemical, biotechnology, and seed giant Monsanto dropped their bid to acquire their Switzerland-based competitor Syngenta. Initial merger serenades were sternly rebuffed by Syngenta, and Monsanto’s interest turned into a $46.5 billion hostile takeover.
Race, Guns, Culture and Change in S.C.
I love South Carolina and the South – I really do. And I consider myself a reasonably serious student of our history and culture. But I am near dumbfounded by recent changes in attitudes among South Carolinians. I take my Southern-ness very seriously. My family roots in Upstate South Carolina go back to the state’s earliest days. I’ve lived, studied or worked in every state in the South. I revel in most every aspect of our Southern...
Life can be Beautiful!
Life can be Ugly, Mean, Vicious, and Unfair, but you and God can make it Beautiful! In the beginning, live was all beautiful, but Sin entered the picture causing the beautiful to be marred. Many questions have been asked; volumes have been written in search of answers, but the questions remain. One thing we can be certain of is that directly or indirectly, Sin is the guilty culprit for all suffering! The penalty for our fore-parent’s...
Letters to the Editor – October 28, 2015
Editor’s Note: This letter arrived after we had sent our paper to the printers. Due to the time constraints between the paper and the election, we have decided to print this letter to the editor on our website.
When I was barefoot boy… continued
When I was a barefoot boy, there were no wars anywhere! If there were, I did not know about them. I did know that there had been one, a bad one! The folk I heard talk about it said it was bad! They called it World War One. Some men that I knew would gather at the little store near our village and talk about the horrible things they had experienced in that war. Then they would talk about themselves and the other men that had served in...
There is much we can do together
I am running for city council because I feel that I am a level headed decision maker with good judgment and a fair and logical mind.