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SC Voting Upgrades: The Need is Critical and Urgent

SC Voting Upgrades: The Need is Critical and Urgent

Posted August 6, 2018 by HCDP in Community Voices, News

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…

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I Am Woman: Protecting Reproductive Rights

I Am Woman: Protecting Reproductive Rights

Posted July 30, 2018 by HCDP in Community Voices, News

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…

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Why Did We March?

Posted January 26, 2018 by HCDP in Community Voices, Video

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…

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Posted December 16, 2017 by HCDP in Community Voices

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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…

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Save our Seas: Help End the Plastic Plague

Posted December 10, 2017 by HCDP in Community Voices

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,…

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DACA Dreams Held Hostage

Posted November 6, 2017 by HCDP in Community Voices

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…

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The Burden

Posted October 19, 2017 by HCDP in Community Voices

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…

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Treatment of LGBT Youth: A Personal Story

Posted October 8, 2017 by HCDP in Community Voices

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…

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Despite It All, We Can’t Give Up. And We Won’t.

Posted October 4, 2017 by HCDP in Community Voices

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…

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Democrats Far Better on the Economy

Posted August 28, 2017 by HCDP in Community Voices

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…

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Family Justice Center of Georgetown and Horry Counties

Posted August 12, 2017 by HCDP in Community Voices

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…

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“You’re doing a fine job, but YOU’RE FIRED!”

Posted August 3, 2017 by Don Kohn in Community Voices

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…

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The Opiate Crisis and Healthcare

The Opiate Crisis and Healthcare

Posted August 1, 2017 by HCDP in Community Voices

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…

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Plastic Bags, Stop the Litter

Posted July 24, 2017 by Don Kohn in Community Voices

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…

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US and UK Healthcare Plans: A Comparison

US and UK Healthcare Plans: A Comparison

Posted June 16, 2017 by HCDP in Community Voices

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…

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Russia and Women’s Rights

Posted June 6, 2017 by HCDP in Community Voices

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…

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Leadership and Humanity – Correcting the Record

Posted June 5, 2017 by Don Kohn in Community Voices

By Stefan Varner. Recently, I was fortunate enough to witness the inspiring speech about the removal of the Jefferson Davis and other Civil War monuments in the great city of New Orleans, Louisiana. I say "great" not because of the geographical location or its physical beauty, but because of Mayor Mitch Landrieu, City Council Members, and other courageous leaders who, after…

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May is Mental Health Awareness Month

Posted May 23, 2017 by Don Kohn in Community Voices

By Barbara J. Sloan, M.Ed. Mental health is a key component of general health, yet mental illness is often stigmatized and underfunded in health insurance programs. I am a retired mental health and addictions counselor and treatment program developer and manager. Here’s what I have learned about treatment here since I moved back to Horry…

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Clean Energy – A Win/Win for SC

Posted May 2, 2017 by HCDP in Community Voices

By Noah Ginsberg. Across our country, in red states and blue states, in the South and across the Great Plains, renewable energy is powering American households while cutting energy costs and creating well-paying jobs. This should come as no surprise to those of us in Horry County. Almost every day we can count on the sun…

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Scripture and Capital Punishment in Arkansas

Posted April 26, 2017 by Don Kohn in Community Voices

By Janet Lawrence. A couple of days ago, someone I care about very much asked me how I can be against capital punishment when it is condoned by Scripture. I was brought up in the Church, in a Parsonage, in fact. My parents were not Evangelicals or literalists, but they raised a woman of faith. So this…

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