In anticipation of Thursday night’s scheduled Burgess Community 7th Congressional District candidate forum at St. James High School, I wanted to come up with a clever question that would force those vying to represent us to reveal themselves beyond talking points and a recitation of all the things that most of us already want to hear.

Frederick Douglass, one of America’s great thinkers, in the “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,” told a story of how he became educated enough to not only escape the actual bonds of slavery, but the mental ones as well.

Bomb threats have gotten so out of hand this year in Horry County that even someone at Lakewood Elementary School got in on the act last week.

I’m a man married to a woman raising two young kids under the same roof.

A sign on a large beachfront home had a couple of our readers irate, so perturbed they snapped a picture and emailed it to us.