The Relay For Life was for the survivors of cancer. Unfortunately, at the start of the luminary ceremony, some others had their own agenda. They need to learn respect for others, leave their attitudes outside the gates and become young ladies if they are to...
Jason Collins coming out and announcing that he is gay did not take courage at all. In this day and age, people are more accepting of one’s sexual orientation. So let’s give it a rest. Collins is gay: whoopty-do.
I don’t get it. The FDA is allowing the morning-after pill to be purchased by girls as young as 15 years old, but they don’t want kids younger than 21 drinking energy drinks because of the caffeine. One pill kills; one drink energizes. The FDA...
On May 1 at 8:10 a.m., a female in a white Jeep pulled up to a red light, stopped and was looking over at a car beside her at the light. She must have of known him because the light turned green and she continued to sit there, waving and trying to...
People are always arguing about who is running this country: the Republicans or the Democrats? Neither one, dear readers. It’s the NRA. The NRA donates lots and lots of money to both parties and then tells them how to run the country and...
Maybe I’m missing something here, but I can’t understand why Aiken County wants to spend the money to move a building that was a library at Kitchings Mill to, basically, another location to just show it. Why don’t you leave it where it...
Why would the president of the United States call up a professional basketball player and tell him that he is proud of him for announcing he is gay? Has this man no sense of dignity for the office? How many gravely-wounded returning soldiers with missing...
What a hypocrite. The White House tours are canceled, some of the national parks are closed, yet the president continues with his fun activities: the White House Correspondents Dinner, the performance at the White House where Memphis was honored and the many...
If the people of the 1st Congressional District vote for Mark Sanford when the time comes for the election, they are showing their true colors, and it cannot be good. Think about the morals of our state and how bad they are and having people like him in...
I live off Willow Run. On Saddlejump Place, three to five times a week until 11 p.m., there is a band practicing out here. When does band members' rights to play music so loudly throughout the neighborhood for hours upon hours, for days upon days,...
It saddens me that almost everyday there is an article in the Aiken Standard of drug busts. Do these people have jobs, or do they live off drug money? Do they collect welfare, and are their families involved? Very sad.
A major network pulled an episode out of ‘sensitivity’ to the Boston bombings. It depicted a woman brainwashing children to kill other children. And we wonder why our society is like it is? I will no longer watch NBC News, either. The series is...
Why would the state end the exit exam required for graduation? My sons both passed this exam the first time it was given to them. I believe they were in the 10th grade. If a child cannot pass this basic test with three chances, what does that say? The state...
I remember being a child, going to school at St. Mary’s, and the firemen would bring that truck that Dwayne Courtney helped restore to our school and we all got to take turns riding in the back. It brings back fond memories of my childhood in Aiken. I...
We don’t need another tax of any kind at the moment. How can any reasonable person suggest imposing a 2 percent food and beverage tax when we’re in the middle of the worst recession in decades and Aiken’s restaurants are already hurting...
