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Opinion piece by Bonnie Kapp originally published for The State Last month, former South Carolina governor and current presidential candidate, Nikki Haley, took to the debate stage and made a logical appeal: “Can’t we…
Blog by Jan Collins A British woman I know, who lives in California, recently gave birth to her first child. Her employer, Google, granted her six months of paid parental leave to care for her new baby.
Sue Rex never wanted to be anything but a teacher. From her childhood days in Pennsylvania instructing her “classroom” of dolls to her decades as a special education teacher and professor of education at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, teaching…
On April 5, 2022, Frito-Lay North America announced that, after more than 125 years as one of sport’s most iconic snacks, Cracker Jack® is adding a new face to its roster, with the introduction of Cracker…
Imagine the excitement that filled my heart when I passed my teacher test and landed a teaching job in a rural South Carolina county! But, I quickly found that my real-life teaching experience was going to be totally…
By Sherry Shealy Martschink Way back in my college days, as a teenaged student at Columbia College, I was trying to get signatures on a petition relating to a controversial issue. One professor who signed the petition…
This opinion piece was originally published by the City Paper Editorial Board for Charleston City Paper One sure-fire way to put a sock in the continuing culture war over abortion is for more women to…
Originally published in LSE. Scholars often suggest that role models inspire women to run for office, but Amanda Clayton, Diana Z. O’Brien, and Jennifer M. Piscopo argue that…
I was running to be the Republican legislative district chair in my area some years ago and one of the delegates who would be voting said to me that he would vote for me, but he had a question: “How…
Another “Sister Fidelma” mystery (#34 in the series) will be published in July, and this makes me happy. For nearly three decades I’ve been an enthusiastic fan of these historical mystery novels, set in ancient Ireland…