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.
SC State Politics a National Embarrassment
Palmetto Politics South Carolina: We’ve got Mark Sanford and Joe Wilson. And don’t even get us started on history. By Carl Sullivan | Newsweek Web Exclusive Mar 11, 2010 In the wake of New York Gov. David Paterson’s latest scandal, The Economist said “Dysfunctional Albany…is frequently cited as the nation’s worst state government—a title for which there is intense competition.” We at NEWSWEEK are fans of competition, so seven of our staffers made the case for states with which they’re intimately familiar. Here Newsweek.com Managing Editor Carl Sullivan argues for his home state of South Carolina. “Yet another reason to be proud of my home state.” I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve made that post to Facebook, followed by a link to the latest salacious political embarrassment involving South Carolina. We may not stand a chance in the battle for “most corrupt state” title, but boy do we know how to stay in the headlines. Just a few recent examples: LOVE GOV AWOL ON ‘APPALACHIAN TRAIL’ LT. GOV COMPARES WELFARE RECIPIENTS TO STRAY ANIMALS STATE ATTORNEY CAUGHT WITH STRIPPER, VIAGRA AND SEX TOYS CONGRESSMAN SHOUTS ‘YOU LIE’ AT THE PRESIDENT
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Changing the World One Woman at a Time
I’m a diehard believer that you can change the world. I believe that individuals and groups can make a difference if they try. My belief has been tested over the years and there have been setbacks but in my own small way I’ve tried to “be the change I wish to see in the world.” My work as a volunteer guardian ad litem freed up some neglected children for adoption and helped some abused children get the help they needed to heal. In recent years I’ve been trying to widen my horizons and learn more about other cultures and places in the world. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the violence, turmoil and trouble all over the world. Third world nations labor under the yoke of entrenched poverty, illiteracy and cultural barriers that often prevent half of the work force from being fully productive. Consider the fact that while women perform 66% of the world’s work, produce 50% of the food, they earn 10% of the income and 1% of the property. I
The Truth About the Stimulus Package Courtesy of Daily Kos
The media - traditional and in wwwLand - are brimful of stimulus stories today. We’ve had our share here and here as the Democrats, led by President Obama, have successfully worked to dominate the narrative-of-the-day on this anniversary of the signing of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. It’s the bully-pulpit at its most effective. If only this had been the approach initiated sometime around last March and relentlessly pounded home once or twice a week ever since, at least some of the drop-off in support for Democrats as measured by the polls might not have occurred. And perhaps there wouldn’t be so much resistance to passing even the utterly inadequate jobs bill now working its way through Congress. But past is past. We can only hope the party learns from this messaging lesson when it comes to future legislation. As expected, there has been plenty of pushback, with the lead editorial of the Wall Street Journal essentially making the same argument that right-wingers made about the New Deal: If you’d only left things alone they would have gotten better on their own. Elected Republicans went down their usual path, arguing that the stimulus didn’t work because unemployment is still high. It’s true, joblessness is still grim, and there is every reason to believe that it will remain so, probably for years. But that doesn’t argue against the stimulus - which impartial analyses show made a terrible situation far less bad. Rather the situation argues for a larger stimulus, the kind that Christina Romer, Paul Krugman, Bill Black and many progressives supported more than a year ago when the ARRA was being crafted. That’s the same ARRA that only three Republicans were willing to vote for despite prodigious efforts by the White House to get them on board by giving them the sugar they asked to be attached to the bill. The folks at Think Progress have a new report illustrating just how astoundingly dishonest Republicans have been in this regard. OK. Sorry. Not astoundingly. Typically.