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Tinubu, Harrison to Keynote SHORE Dinner

Above: Gloria Tinubu and Jaime Harrison U.S. Senate candidates Gloria Tinubu and Jaime Harrison will be the featured speakers at HCDP's SHORE Dinner Saturday, September 28th 6-10 p.m., at the Bay Watch Resort and Conference Center. Deadline for making reservations and submitting payment is Friday, September 20th. To register for the SHORE Dinner, please visit ActBlue. Tickets…
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Buttigieg Unveils Disaster Relief Plan in Conway

Standing on the banks of the Waccamaw River, which caused massive destruction and damage when Hurricane Florence ravaged Conway last September, Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg unveiled a new disaster relief plan designed to help communities cope with such storms, which he predicted will grow more frequent and increasingly severe due to climate change. "As a…

Flooding in Horry County: A Discussion Long Overdue

By V. Susan Hutchinson Every year at this time Myrtle Beach area residents brace for yet another hurricane season, and this year it could be worse than usual, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), due to the end of El Niño. Moreover, the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) correlates global warming to changes in…
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Weather Report

By Steve Hamelman As Hurricane Dorian nears Florida, a theologically minded person is apt to recall the tendency of seventeenth-century Puritans to read nature as a compilation of texts containing messages that signified God’s purpose in the world. Hundreds of years after the Puritans interpreted every big and little natural fact as a divine lesson, the meteorological…

Brews, bravado and… Beto!

(Pictured L-R: Brandon Counts – Vice Chair of the Young Democrats of Horry County, presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke, and Stacie Pearman – Chair of the Young Democrats of Horry County) By Stacie Pearman Democratic Presidential candidate, Beto O’Rourke held a town hall rally at Seminar Brewing in Florence, SC Tuesday, August 27, drawing a large and…
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The Budget and the Bully

By Steve Hamelman With the national budget nearing the trillion dollar mark and fears of recession rising daily, the government of the United States, these days not much more than an emblem of monumental dysfunction, lurches toward the next election under the “leadership” of President Donald Trump, whose understanding of political economy is as deficient as…
HCDP SHORE Dinner 2019

Register Now for the 8th Annual SHORE Fundraising Dinner Set for Sept. 28

The eighth annual SHORE Dinner, one of HCDP’s major fundraising events of the year, will be held Saturday, September 28, 6-10 p.m., at the Bay Watch Resort and Conference Center, overlooking the ocean, in North Myrtle Beach. The theme is Take a Stand for Democracy. “This year’s SHORE Dinner, which celebrates and honors all those who…
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Give Him Enough Rope

By Steve Hamelman Soon after news reports of two mass shootings in the cities of El Paso, TX, and Dayton, OH, on Saturday August 3 and Sunday August 4, a political firestorm erupted over President Donald Trump’s announcement that he would visit each stricken city today, Wednesday August 7. Thirty-one people died in the two attacks. Many…