Cindi Ross Scoppe

It works this way: The Legislature gives power companies a monopoly, which robs us of consumer choice. Regulations are supposed to take the place of the free market. But campaign donations interfere.

Cindi Ross Scoppe’s agenda as The Post and Courier’s new editorial page editor is long on consensus, pragmatism and improving South Carolina and its communities, short on winning ideological battles.

After I gave up trying to convince Rick Nelson not to retire as The Post and Courier’s editorial page editor, I spent a while thinking about what a responsible opinion staff does and looks like.

Tuesday was a very good day for South Carolina — except where it wasn't.

Cindi Ross Scoppe’s agenda as The Post and Courier’s new editorial page editor is long on consensus, pragmatism and improving South Carolina and its communities, short on winning ideological battles.

There's a lot going on beyond the money as South Carolina grinds toward a second week without a new budget for the fiscal year that started July 1.

Budget negotiators have to decide the fate of senior tax breaks, earmarks, vouchers for homeschoolers, data center requirements, DUI victims, Scout incentives. But you don’t get to watch the debate.

It works this way: The Legislature gives power companies a monopoly, which robs us of consumer choice. Regulations are supposed to take the place of the free market. But campaign donations interfere.

A few hours before Lindsey Graham died, a friend asked me to explain how it is that, in a state that requires ID to purchase non-alcoholic beer , we

Last month, we got a guest column from someone who recounted the story of getting on the wrong side of the law as a teen, going to prison for drug