By Don Kohn, HCDP Chair
On Tuesday, Horry County voters will participate in the 2018 midterm election, which could well be one of the most important elections of our times. They will have an opportunity to use their constitutionally guaranteed power – at the ballot box.
At stake are the U.S. House of Representatives seat in District…
By Don Kohn, Chairman of the Horry County Democratic Party
Voter enthusiasm is building in Horry County and South Carolina, and we sense a wave of Democratic support that may well be unprecedented. Voters appear poised to reject the policies of the Trump and McMaster administrations and elect candidates with positive, inclusive messages who are committed…
By Wendy Baruch
Hanging around the Horry County Democratic Party (HCDP), a person can learn a thing a two. Sometimes these things just need to be verified. When I saw a video from Tuesday’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Cyber Security Summit, watching agency head Kirstjen Nielson confirming the present threat to our Democracy in the…
By Sandra Kohn
One of the most sensitive issues confronting women today and, for that matter, decades passed, is our reproductive rights.
It is my opinion, and I believe the opinion of many women, that a woman needs – and should have without question – the right to direct her own life to include choices regarding her…
by Julia Parker.
The great concern for the ideals that make our country unique were expressed at the Women’s March in Myrtle Beach on January 20, 2018. As can be seen from the video, people in the coastal region from Brunswick through Horry to Georgetown Counties are deeply concerned about the direction the GOP administration is…
by Rick Patelunas.
After stumbling through its last day for a second House vote in two days, the Republican tax bill is heading for Donald Trump’s signature. It’s a bait-and-switch that will leave the people who actually work for a living paying for a huge holiday gift to corporations.
The Republican tax reform bill is not the…
by Cathy Tourloukis.
Our planet is in peril. Plastic is taking over our world exponentially.
It's a crisis so serious that the United Nations has literally declared war on ocean plastic, with an unprecedented global campaign to eliminate major sources of marine litter: micro-plastics in cosmetics, and the excessive, wasteful usage of single-use plastic by the year 2022.
So far,…
by Meredith Rogers.
It is true, and it happened. On September 5, 2017, Donald Trump officially decided to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy and has started to work on a plan to deport immigrants whose status is considered illegal by the homeland authorities. Even though the actual deportation would not happen for…
by Joan Sloane.
Any person who runs for president of the United States is, of course, interested in the power afforded by such a position. And any person who becomes president of the United States realizes, quickly, that over and above the power, is the burden.
The burden to understand, protect, and defend the Constitution at all…
by Ryan Thompson.
The year is 2007 and on May 16th while leaving a bar in Greenville, South Carolina, gay 20 year-old Sean Kennedy is attacked by a man who pulled up in a car. The punch Kennedy received was thrown with enough force to break facial bones and when his head hit the ground, his…
by Joan R Sloane.
In the midst of all we have to think about:
A terrible aftermath of the confluence of three hurricanes in the US, especially Hurricanes Irma and Maria, on Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands;
A president who continuously foments racial divide, while ignoring 3.5 million American citizens in dire need of life-saving assistance;
A…
By Bob Gatty.
The Trump administration is close to rescinding Obama-era protections for elderly nursing home patients and their families, once again proving that what’s important to them is protecting big businesses even at the expense of some of the most frail and vulnerable among us.
At issue is a regulation put in place under President Obama…
By Bob Gatty.
The nation now has a new option to consider when it comes to covering the skyrocketing cost of health care: a new Medicare for All proposal introduced Wednesday, Sept. 13, by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
Backed by at least 15 Democratic senators, according to The Washington Post, the Sanders legislation would expand Medicare into…
by Rick Comfort.
Rick Comfort recently responded to Bob Boland's letter to the editor, "Pawleys Island Liberal Promoting Fake News," published in The Sun News, during July:
I had to chuckle a little as I read Mr. Boland's article about Trump and unemployment and how many jobs have been created since he took office.
History is a great…
Vicki Bourus, Executive Director of the Family Justice Center of Georgetown and Horry Counties, spoke at our Westside Democrats monthly meeting on August 23, 2017. She has kindly provided us with a history of how the Family Justice Center came into being, as a response to the needs of domestic violence victims in our area:
By…
by Stefan Varner
Democratic LGBT Committee Chairperson
Earlier in the week President Donald Trump issued one of his 'official tweets' that thousands of transgender service members would be banned from their jobs, and he did so under the premise that this was due to conversations with Generals and other military professionals. And then Press Secretary Sarah…
by Barbara J. Sloan, M.Ed.
I treated and supervised the treatment of at least 7000 addicts and alcoholics during my career as an addiction and mental health counselor. This is a complex illness that manifests with the current drug of choice cycling as society reacts to the ill effects of one drug by moving on to…
Start to notice the plastic bags. They're in the trees.
They're on the ground.
They litter our streets. They blow on our beaches.
They fill up our landfills and never leave.
They're here forever and ever unless...
WE stop.
Stop Using, Stop Buying. Stop ignoring the facts.
Start becoming aware. Look up at the branches.
You'll…
By Susan Hutchinson.
The US healthcare model differs greatly from other countries and is a hotly debated topic. Advancements in diagnostic testing and treatments have driven costs up significantly forcing insurance companies to decide how much they are willing to cover and increase out of pocket expenses for participants in order to remain profitable. Necessary medical…
By Nicole Angeleen.
We hear it all the time. Every day. "Focus on Russia." We beat ourselves up over getting distracted. We grit our teeth. But then a whole new atrocity gets our attention and we get "distracted."
I honestly had a hard time figuring out where to start my remarks. There are so many overt and…