I’ll be on Cynthia Hardy’s show on the Big DM at 6. Tune in…
Tweet I think we’ll be talking about the election. That’s all I wanted to say…
View ArticleYet another reminder politicians are people
TweetTwo quick contact reports: Yesterday afternoon, I grabbed a cup of coffee with Mike Cakora, who recently returned to the blog as a regular commenter after a five-year absence. It was great to have...
View ArticleSteve Benjamin’s new look
TweetSince relatively few of y’all follow me on Twitter (which you should, because that’s kind of where I’m blogging when I’m not here), I thought I’d share this Tweet from last night: Columbia Mayor...
View ArticleThe return of Paul DeMarco: Welcome back, Doc!
TweetDr. Paul DeMarco in 2006. One of our regulars from the early days of this blog made an appearance over the weekend in response to this observation from current regular Jeff Mobley: “Perhaps it is...
View ArticleGrowing South Carolina’s car-manufacturing industry
TweetIt occurs to me that I should make myself do more short contact-report-type posts, whenever I run into a newsmaker and pick up a tidbit. So here’s one…. Yesterday, I ran into Commerce Secretary...
View ArticleTenenbaum: Using private email account was clearly against federal rules
TweetAnother little contact report… Talking with Inez Tenenbaum this morning about her support of Joe Biden, I changed the subject to Hillary Clinton and asked, somewhat facetiously, whether Inez used...
View ArticleJoel Lourie’s Senate retirement party
TweetSoon-to-be-former Sen. Joel Lourie chats with well-wishers at his retirement party. I went by the Music Barn off Senate Street last night for Joel Lourie’s going-away party as he prepares to leave...
View ArticleSee the most amazing models you’ll ever see
TweetBurl is making sure we notice that the sign says he is “renowned.” So you built a few model planes when you were a kid. A Spitfire, a P-51, an Me 109 — if you had the room, maybe a B-17. You glued...
View ArticleIt was great to see Valerie and the gang at USC tonight
Tweet Valerie Bauerlein was back in town this evening, which became the occasion for the biggest gathering of former denizens of The State I’ve attended since we lost Lee Bandy. Valerie, now of The...
View Article‘How to live to be 102,’ according to Samuel
Tweet Years ago — probably well over a decade ago — I was having lunch with my good friend Samuel Tenenbaum, and he pulled a Ziploc sandwich bag out his pocket. It contained maybe a dozen or so pills...
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