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Latest South Carolina HeadlinesLatest HeadlinesSinko de MayoThursday, May 8, 2008If you're scoring the illegal immigrant death match at home, it's Senate Republicans 1, House Republicans zip. Game over. No matter what, if anything, the Legislature does about this latest hot-button, knee jerk issue, Senate Republicans are going to be able to mosey onto the campaign trail with a little strut in their step. Read story. As the Chamber turnsThursday, May 1, 2008Keith was in love, and he thought she loved him, too. He had caught her on the rebound from Joe, and he wasn't letting go. She'd moved in, temporarily, and everything seemed to be going fine. But Keith knew there was always the threat. He sometimes saw the faraway look in her eyes, as if she were gazing toward the south, thinking about how things might have been. Read story.Heated debateThursday, April 24, 2008On Tuesday night, Charleston City Council had to argue, grouse and pontificate for more than an hour and a half before they agreed to buy the Sofa Super Store property. You know, the place where nine firefighters died last year. The ground where more firefighters lost their lives than anywhere since 9/11. That patch of ground on Highway 17 where people left all the cards, flowers, and teddy bears, prayed daily and cried over. The spot Mayor Joe Riley calls sacred ground. Well, at $1.8 million, it apparently ain’t too sacred. Read story. Let them eat cake — and ice cream!Wednesday, April 16, 2008Spend 20 years listening to politicians yammer on, and you'll detect a common theme. No matter what mischief they are up to, they always claim to have the purest, most sacred motives at heart. Read story. HEMINGWAY’S HOME ... Longtime dwelling in Cuban village famous writer’s island in the streamSunday, April 13, 2008SAN FRANCISCO DE PAULA, CUBA — He was an old man who worked alone in a house on a hill outside Havana, and it is here that he wrote the story of a great fish. Read story. South Carolina missing out on sales to Cuba is other states' gainMonday, April 7, 2008HAVANA — The Hotel Nacional's breakfast buffet covers half its cavernous basement, offering fruits, vegetables, omelets and pastries for just about every international taste. Still, you could call the massive spread a simple continental breakfast — if that continent is North America. Read story. Cuba courts tourists, even AmericansSunday, April 6, 2008HAVANA — Hemingway leans against the bar at El Floridita, a grin on his face, perpetually awaiting another daiquiri. Every day and every night, the tourists line up to pose with the life-size sculpture, some pretending they are deep in conversation with the old man of the sea, others mimicking his stance in front of a stool that no one can sit on. Read story. Dispatch from Cuba: Manana, HavanaFriday, March 28, 2008HAVANA — It's a quarter til 10 in the morning, and the guy at the roadside stand halfway between here and Mantanzas is selling a fair number of pina coladas. Read story. Dispatch from Cuba: Time ain't on our sideThursday, March 27, 2008If Cubans have taught us anything, however, it's that nothing is ever broken beyond repair, there is no problem that cannot be remedied. Read story. Dispatch from Cuba: Our Miranda RightsWednesday, March 26, 2008They say you can get used to anything in a hurry, no matter how unique it is. We are not quite there yet. For three nights now, we press types have convened at the Hotel Nacional to casually talk shop, as though we're just working, as though we're just on assignment. Read story. Dispatch from Cuba: The Longest 90 MilesTuesday, March 25, 2008It´s night, and many Cubans are out in the streets, walking, talking socializing -- all the things you do when you don´t have money, or anything to spend it on. Read story. Dispatch from Cuba: Like Papa, you drink mojitosMonday, March 24, 2008The courtyard band is playing “My Way” in Spanish and a peacock is perched above the table, and you are praying that he hasn’t eaten lately. You drink beer because you can’t trust the water, and find that it improves the caricature of you that an artist in the Plaza de Arms forced you do buy. Welcome to Old Habana. Read story. Dispatch from Cuba: Cigar Smoke Doth SwirlSunday, March 23, 2008A contingent of us from the South Carolina Press Association are here on a study trip, a chance to see this place so close, yet so far from the United States. We are staying at the Hotel Nacional, a 1930s landmark, built by the man who did The Breakers in Palm Beach. It is here that Frank Sinatra, Gary Cooper and Ava Gardner played in the days when this was America's playground for the rich. Read story. The price you payFriday, March 14, 2008Earlier this week, there was talk of making former state Treasurer Thomas Ravenel pay the cost of that special session, which was called to select his replacement, on account of he caused it all by getting caught with cocaine. Read story. That's Not the TicketFriday, March 7, 2008You figure if they say it on TV it's got to be true. But no matter what the idiots on the idiot box say, or what you've read in The New York Times, don't believe for a minute that John McCain is going to take our governor to be his lawfully wedded running mate. ... Read story. Newer stories | Older stories |
Brian Hicks is a senior writer with The Post and Courier. In his 10
years with the paper, he has covered a wide variety of subjects,
including politics and news of the weird (also known as politics). His
reporting has won 20 S.C. Press Association Awards, including Journalist
of the Year in 1998. He is also the author or co-author of four books,
including the local history yarn "Raising the Hunley," which was so
popular it was even translated into Czechoslovakian. Really. 
