On a recent visit to Dallas, courtesy of ultra-low-priced promotional airline tickets from Spirit, on a quick family get-away, we visited two of the highest-profile houses of worship in the country.

Last year, Theresa DeCindio set out to become the first entrepreneur in her family.

In anticipation of some upcoming 7th Congressional District candidate forums, 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.