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.
Darlington Council and Mayoral Forum Oct. 22
The candidates running for office for the upcoming election in Darlington will participate in an upcoming event hosted by the News and Press on Thursday, October 22nd at 6:30 p.m. at the Darlington Recreation Department gymnasium (Harmon Baldwin Center) on 300 Sanders Street.
Medicaid mythbuster #2: source and quality of care
By Jon M. Bailey, Guest Writer Center for Rural Affairs A constant complaint about Medicaid is that fewer healthcare providers take patients on public insurance programs, and the resulting quality of care suffers. The facts, however, tell a different story. According to the Commonwealth Fund Biennial Health Insurance Survey nearly all Medicaid (95%) and private coverage patients (94%) have a regular source of health care. The quality...
When I was a barefoot boy
When I was a barefoot boy, the world was a much different place than it is today! It was a much smaller place! I heard folk say names like Florence, Hartsville, Lamar and Timmonsville; to me, they were foreign countries. caption id=”attachment_675″ align=”alignright” width=”262″] Bill Shepard[/caption] When I was a barefoot boy, we had no TV, telephone, radio or computer. There were no more than a...