Having grown up in the district herself, Haley Griggs cares passionately about the quality of the education our children receive. She is committed to restoring the district to its status as one of the best in the Southeast. I work with Haley every day, so I can speak to herContinue Reading
Congressman Joe Wilson, Senior Member of the House Armed Services Committee, has issued the following statement after the House Armed Services Committee completed the markup of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2022: “This year’s National Defense Authorization Act reaffirms Congress’s commitment to our men and womenContinue Reading
Former school board member, Larry Haltiwanger, has announced his support for Tifani Moore in the special election for the Richland County side of School District Five of Lexington and Richland Counties. “First thing I look for is what kind of spirit a person has,” Haltiwanger said. “When I met Tifani,Continue Reading
Congressman Joe Wilson issued the following statement: “I sadly need to amend my media statement yesterday calling for Joe Biden to resign for endangering American families, leaving them vulnerable to terrorist attacks. I had purposefully not called for the firing the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General MarkContinue Reading
By Al Dozier The pressure is on lawmakers to return to Columbia and hold an emergency session to revise a law that prohibits mask mandates in schools. The latest push comes from the State Department of Health and Environmental Control. With COVID-19 cases spiking in schools statewide, the board ofContinue Reading
Lexington County Councilwoman Charli Wessinger joined the growing list of supporters of Nurse Practitioner Haley Griggs in the special election for District Five School Board, where controversial former Trustee Ed White resigned his long-time seat under unusual circumstances. “I’ve been involved in civic activism in our community for quite aContinue Reading
Congressman Joe Wilson has issued the following statement calling on Joe Biden and other administration officials to resign after putting American families at risk: “American families are more at risk of a terrorist attack than ever before. August 31, 2021 is a day of infamy. The Biden administration’s unconditional surrenderContinue Reading
By Al Dozier The pressure is on lawmakers to return to Columbia and hold an emergency session to revise a law that prohibits mask mandates in schools. The latest push comes from the State Department of Health and Environmental Control. With COVID-19 cases spiking in schools statewide, the board ofContinue Reading
We make a significant investment in our children through the public school systems. We expect the educational standards to be high, but we also expect for the philosophical standards to represent the highest form of American values. Among those values are “color-blindness,” “equality,” and “merit”: values that exemplify the DeclarationContinue Reading
Irmo Town Councilman Bill Danielson presented a check to Leigh Essig of Leigh Essig Photography as part of the Irmo Future Growth Corporation grants. In December of 2020 Councilman Bill Danielson proposed the idea of assisting small businesses with monetary relief who had suffered adversely due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Continue Reading
Congressman Joe Wilson, a Senior Member of the House Foreign Affairs and Armed Services Committees, sent a letter to President Joe Biden following yesterday’s press conference where he claimed “The military from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs to the commanders in the field, have all contacted me, usually byContinue Reading