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.
Mark Sanford Fiddles While South Carolina's Economy Burns
South Carolina’s jobless rate rose to 11.6% in September, up two-tenths of a point from the previous month. The Palmetto State currently has the 5th highest unemployment rate in the nation, trailing only Michigan (15.3%), Nevada (13.3%), Rhode Island (13%) and California (12.2%). More than 250,000 South Carolinians (including myself) are currently out of work. South Carolina has lost over 24,000 factory jobs in the past year alone…more than at any time since 1994.
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South Carolina-A Rudderless Ship in an Economic Storm
A few weeks ago I went to the SC Employment Security Commission office in Greenville for a mandatory meeting to update officials there on the status of my seven month long search for a new job. The waiting room was filled to capacity with a line stretching around the room. You could find a representative from nearly every walk of life in that room; young and old, black, white, brown, white- collar, blue-collar workers, high school drop outs and college graduates. The common thread among all of us was our need for employment. No one there seemed happy or comfortable in their unemployed state; no one spoke of the joys of being jobless. I was impressed by the professional and prompt service provided by the over-worked staff at the local ESC office. When I thanked the young woman who updated my paperwork and approved an extension of my unemployment benefits, she said she did her very best to complete everyone’s paperwork at the end of the day, often working until 7 o’clock or “until they turned the computers off for the day.”
Health Care Reform-A Moral Imperative
In a recent article in Newsweek Magazine, T.R. Reid the author of The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper and Fairer Health Care, characterizes national health care systems as reflecting a nation’s basic cultural values. “The fundamental truth about health care in every country,” notes Princeton professor Uwe Reinhardt, “is that national values, national character, determine how each system works.” If this is the case, then the United States of America is certainly not a moral nation.