Meet Roxanne Walker…The South Carolina Broadcasters Association named Roxanne Radio Personality of the Year in 2002. She has been honored for her political opinion commentary by the Greenville Chapter of Women in Communications.
Roxanne resides in Taylors, SC with her husband Alan and the best dog in the world Allie.
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Bush's Popularity Sinking Fast
Is there still a pony in there somewhere?
The rug in the Oval Office may say “optimistic person comes to work,” but that’s about the only place you’ll find an American with such a sunny outlook on life these days. In a new AP-Ipsos Poll, just 21 percent of Americans say that things in their country are headed in the right direction — the lowest percentage the poll has measured since it began in 2003.
In the same poll, the president’s approval rating stands at 32 percent, which matches the lowest number AP-Ipsos has ever reported for George W. Bush.
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Sean Kennedy-Hate Kills in Greenville, South Carolina
Updated on Friday, May 16, 2008 at 01:29PM by
Roxanne Walker
Updated on Thursday, February 12, 2009 at 02:00PM by
Roxanne Walker
My only child will graduate from high school tonight. Ben is a brilliant, handsome, funny, and well mannered all around wonderful son. He graduates sixth in his class of over 200 at Wade Hampton High School, he was awarded a full tuition scholarship to The Savannah College of Art and Design, and he has two jobs this summer and a girl friend that both my husband and I really like. We enjoy his friends and most of all love spending time with Ben. I am filled with pride and a sense of relief that we made it through high school relatively unscathed and he became the kind of young adult I always wished I could have been had I had more ambition, better study habits and less a desire to be a social butterfly. I tell you all this to brag a little yes, but to also say that because Ben is such an exceptional child and because he is my one and only child my heart is always stilled by stories of other mothers and fathers who’s children are taken from them by accidents or worse still murder. That’s why the murder of Sean Kennedy has been especially difficult for me to process. I didn’t know Sean Kennedy personally but I know that his mother Elke Parker loved him dearly and she mourns him as only a mother can when her precious son is murdered in what appears to be a hate crime.
Justice Prevails in South Carolina Supreme Court Election
The election this week of State Court of Appeals Judge Don Beatty of Spartanburg to the South Carolina Supreme Court illustrates the power structure at work in South Carolina. Beatty becomes the second African American to serve on the South Carolina Supreme Court since Reconstruction. The Greenville News called his election “the most contentious judicial contest in memory.” Judge Beatty said he felt, “vindicated” after his election by a vote of 84 votes to 54 votes for Court of Appeals Judge Bruce Williams of Columbia and 25 votes for Kaye Hearn, the chief judge of the Court of Appeals. Another outstanding Upstate judicial candidate did not win legislative approval, Family Court Judge Aphrodite Konduros of Greenville, lost 81 to 79 to Circuit Judge Daniel Pieper of North Charleston for a seat on the Court of Appeals. Keep your eye on Judge Konduros or as I like to call her Mighty Aphrododite…you’ll be seeing her again, she’s smart, she’s fair and she’s an up and comer! We haven’t seen the last of her for sure.