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Mayor Pete Buttigieg

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…
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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…
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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…