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Issac J. Bailey | Heading to Harvard, but thoughts will remain with the Myrtle Beach area

Frustration dripped from each word that escaped the man’s mouth.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Letter | If only I were a biker...

If only I was a biker:

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Sad and happy news in the paper

A recent edition of the Sun News brought both happy and sad news. On the happy side, I am elated about Issac Bailey being selected as a Nieman Fellow. When we moved to the area, our daughter, a Davidson graduate, told us to make sure to read The Sun News in which the wit and wisdom of another Davidson...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Letter | We moved to Strand to escape high taxes; what’s the deal?

My family and I moved to this area from New York two years ago for retirement to escape the high taxes and fees associated with living in New York state and hopefully to stretch our retirement dollars.

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Letter | IRS flap shows lack of sense in D.C.

I hope people will read this with an open mind and think about what I read and really think about it, as I did.

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Letter | IRS actions show thuggery of the feds

This past week we have seen clearly the full power and thuggery unleashed by the IRS. It was targeting tea party and conservative groups and asking such questions such as who their donors are, what type of books they read, and all of their members’ information. This was primarily done to ...

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The cost of capitalism

It has been five years since the financial crisis of 2008. Scholars have labeled this period the “Second Great Contraction” (the Great Depression being the first) to describe the pervasive “real” unemployment and the subdued rate of economic growth.

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In Florida, timely injustice

At great political peril, George Ryan did the right thing.

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Obama’s order to open government

Long before steam engines and turbines carried us swiftly over the oceans, a disabled sailor who could no longer serve on a ship found something to do ashore: aggregate the data from shipping logs.

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What happened, Mr. President?

It hasn’t been a great week for the Obama folks, as the scandal du jour tour has firmly taken hold. Every day it seems another federal agency is exposed as having intimidated, snooped, covered up or gone to Vegas on the taxpayer dime. Zimbabwe is even making fun of us.