It is the season for giving, and there has been no shortage of it in Fairfield County and Blythewood of late; although some of what has been passed along appears more like a gnarly lump of sooty coal than anything one might put a bow on. If Santa is indeed watching, it looks as though […]
Priceless
December 12, 2014 By
Everything may indeed, as the saying goes, have a price; there may also be things, however, for which a price would be so absurdly high as to render that thing essentially priceless. Other things there are still for which one cannot imagine a price, however high. The Statue of Liberty, for example, and Mt. Rushmore, […]
Quarry Questions
December 3, 2014 By
I am a homeowner from the Fairfield County community that is affected by the recent announcement of plans to operate the rock crushing quarry company, Winnsboro Crushed Stone. Although the decision to permit the operation is now up to the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control, Fairfield County Council has shown concern for their community’s concerns and […]
Reverse Robin Hoods
November 28, 2014 By
Our State legislature has sat on the sidelines for too long as the utility companies have been permitted to legally rob their consumers for the last six years. Thanks to the S.C. Base Load Review Act, our legislature has placed the public in a very vulnerable position of economic servitude to the public utilities as […]
Give and Take
November 28, 2014 By
Soon District 3 voters will have a choice: join three other County districts and vote for the future by electing a new type of Councilman, or stay “Trapped” in the past with nothing to look forward to, just the same old, same old, with no one to lead them into a promising future. First, the […]
The Truth is Out There
November 28, 2014 By
A couple of the Fairfield County Council members have remarked that the ads I ran in The Voice (Oct. 24 and Oct. 31) were all lies. I have with me the FOI information from the Fairfield County administration to repudiate the comments of the council members about the ads. What was a lie? The Deputy Administrator […]
Wish List
November 21, 2014 By
Christmas came early to Fairfield this year. Yes the Council election results delivered a true gift of hope to all of Fairfield. The days of extravagance and waste are soon behind us. The days of transparency and common sense are soon upon us. Like children on Christmas Eve we anxiously await the beginning of our […]
Power to the People
November 14, 2014 By
So let it be written. So let it be done! That’s how Yul Brynner said it in “The Ten Commandments.” It’s actually not that hard to believe that the greater majority of Fairfield voters came out and voted in almost record numbers. What does it say when you win three out of the four incumbent seats? One of […]
Setting the Agenda
November 14, 2014 By
With the final race for Fairfield County Council heading for a protest, the tremors from last week’s election results do not appear to have completely died down. It is difficult – as it should be – to overturn or order a new election, so regardless of the merits of that protest, the odds are long […]
Bravo, Blythewood
November 13, 2014 By
Bravo to the Mayor and members of the Blythewood Town Council for ending the costly proposal to erect another building at Doko Park so a private enterprise could establish a restaurant. As the motion to ditch the project said, it was “not in the best interest of the people . . . to incur, directly […]
