Ignorance is the mother of unintended consequences. We have a classic example at work here in Lake Wylie.
This letter is in response to the article that details only a brief and partial account of the removal of the two old buildings from the property of Good Samaritan United Methodist Church.
What do the Laney School Historical Project and the recent shelving of the proposed York County Uniform Development Ordinance have in common?
It was on Nov. 12, 1992, that I signed the papers. I asked myself for almost a year, “Would giving him up be the right thing to do?” I had been hearing so many reasons as to why choosing adoption is right and best.
As the staff historian for the Culture & Heritage Museums, I would like to comment on the editorial that appeared in the April 16, 2012, issue of the Lake Wylie Pilot, entitled “York County Museum Gets ‘F’ in Local History.”
I was surprised at the negative editorial regarding the Cultural & Heritage Museums of York County. You are really missing a lot of what the Museums and their programs have to offer!
The following is in reply to questions and comments addressed to the Lake Wylie Pilot in a Letter to the Editor April 3 regarding an increase in aircraft noise over the Lake Wylie area.
John Adams wasn’t thinking of school choice when he famously stated, “Facts are stubborn things,” but his insight can bring clarity to a debate that remains clouded with misleading claims. As state lawmakers consider school choice legislation, it is crucial that stubborn facts determine the decisions they make. Any policy dealing with how children are educated in South Carolina deserves nothing less.
Imagine the absurdity of a highly profitable company not paying to use a natural resource, which has severe scarcity issues, like water. This is the case in America’s thermoelectric energy industry. Such a paradigm has a variety of problems—sustainability and fairness among them, especially given that most of you pay for water used in your home and many of you conserve water buy purchasing low-flush toilets, front-loader washing machines, etc.
Republicans see rising oil and gasoline prices as an opportunity to score political points on President Obama. To be sure, Obama is partly responsible for the rise in world prices and could do something about it. The irony is that Republicans would emphatically oppose the one measure that would be most effective in easing the pressure on prices right now: defusing tension in the Middle East by taking the war threat against Iran off the table.