Lately, inequality has re-entered the national conversation. Occupy Wall Street gave the issue visibility, while the Congressional Budget Office supplied hard data on the widening income gap.
Childhood obesity is a serious - and growing - problem.
While the Rock Hill school district's high-school dropout rate has not returned to the lower levels of two years ago, it apparently is moving in the right direction again.
President Barack Obama was right to resist an early deadline imposed by congressional Republicans for a decision on the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline.
The following editorial appeared in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram on Wednesday:
In case you've been out of the country for the past several years, former Republican Gov. Mark Sanford "hit the trail" and Nikki Haley became our tea party governor.
A recent riot at a state prison near Ridgeville raises questions once again about whether the Department of Corrections has the resources to run the state's prisons.
