Новости за 29.07.2016

Even though Tales of the Cocktail is devoted to drinking, I always seem to spend the better part of the annual New Orleans conference in dining rooms.

With the Charleston RiverDogs’ pitching staff depleted by call-ups, manager Luis Dorante will need other arms to step up and take on more prominent roles with the club. Luis Cedeno did that, and then some, taking a perfect game bid into the seventh inning and finishing with seven brilliant innings of one-hit, shutout ball as the RiverDogs...

WASHINGTON — In her speech accepting the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton wrongly implied Donald Trump has proposed banning Islam in America and sketched out a plan for defeating Islamic State militants that merely mirrors what the U.S. is already trying to do.

BY PATTI DAVIS

BY CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER

BY AARON BLAKE

The arrival of a West Ashley farmers market this fall will be solid proof that the City of Charleston is taking seriously West Ashley residents’ concerns about improvements in their neighborhoods.

As a Charleston County taxpayer, I think it is not only a good idea, but absolutely crucial that Pattison’s Academy be fully funded, regardless of whether it is "expensive." We will be judged as a society not by how we treat the strongest among us, but how we treat those who need our help the most.

A July 19 letter writer objected to the design of the Colonial Lake Park. The plantings, though young, are not "willy-nilly" as she suggests. Her observation that it looks like a nursery should be expected inasmuch as more than 17,000 plant varieties were planted. As for some of the palm trees already being in the boughs of the live...

During the recent national debate about the presidential contest, there has been a call for a third party. It seems a reasonable solution as polls indicate the majority of eligible voters of both parties are not favorably impressed by their candidate. If they vote at all, it will be for the candidate they dislike the least.

Since I cannot blame County Council for a sales tax referendum, can I still fault them for bad decisions? Like spending a ton of tax money on redoing the Maybank Highway and Folly Road intersection shortly before The Standard, a 280-unit project, started going up just up the street?

1) No gas tax increase.

Recently there has been a rash of commentaries and editorials proclaiming that crime rates have been on the decline for the last 25 years. This is good news, but it is mostly being used as an argument that we do not need a law-and-order candidate and we certainly do not need more guns.

After Donald J. Trump’s 75-minute doom-and-gloom speech at the Republican Convention, I was tempted to use my Second Amendment right as a "well regulated militia" to run out and purchase a gun in order to protect my home from the rampaging hoards out there. Then the sun came out on a beautiful Saturday morning, July 23, and...

To shouts of "four more years" President Barack Obama told the Democratic National Convention Wednesday night that he is ready to "pass the baton" to Hillary Rodham Clinton, suggesting that she will carry on the policies he has pursued.

This time of year, every year, is when the veterinary emergency doctors are seeing snake bites, tick bites and bug stings on a daily basis.

TOWSON, Md. — The cast of CBS’s hit comedy show "The Big Bang Theory" has filmed a public service announcement to raise awareness about skin cancer after learning of the death of a young Maryland fan.

VEGA ALTA, Puerto Rico — Lin-Manuel Miranda jokingly compared himself to a hard-to-catch Pokemon as fans pursued him with cellphones Wednesday during a visit to his parents’ native Puerto Rico shortly after the end of his run on the Broadway hit "Hamilton."

FOSTER, Johanna L., of Charleston died Thursday. Arrangements by Fielding Home for Funerals.

ALSTON, Cynthia, Johns Island

Q: I keep getting calls from an unknown number. When I answer, no one is there. How can I stop these annoying calls?

BY GAIL COLLINS

PHILADELPHIA — Promising Americans a steady hand, Hillary Clinton cast herself Thursday night as a unifier for divided times, steeled for a volatile world by decades in politics that have left some Americans skeptical of her character.

The Charleston branch of the NAACP put aside its regular business Thursday night to host a public discussion on police violence and its symptoms in black communities.

If there’s one thing a black Democrat and a white Republican can agree on, it’s the power of prayer.