TweetOn Tuesday night I dropped by a fund-raiser for Cayce Mayor Elise Partin, who’s up for election this year, to see who was there and stuff. As it happened, I missed the mayor’s announcement of a grant for the Airport Corridor project she’s worked so hard on — to beautify the gateway to the Midlands […]
Tweet After interviewing Cayce Mayor Elise Partin the other day, I had intended to attend her campaign kickoff on Saturday, but family business took me out of town. But here’s a release about what I missed: [Cayce, SC] A crowd of Cayce residents gathered today in front of the Cayce Municipal Complex to hear their […]
Tweet So you’re thinking, “Didn’t she just get elected mayor of Cayce in 2008?” Yes, she did — but that was to fill an unexpired term. Now, she’s running for a full term. She’ll make the announcement tomorrow. As you recall, we enthusiastically endorsed her when I was at the paper. We hailed her as […]
Tweet The McCain endorsement, being released early today, was sort of predestined to make a splash to the exclusion of readers noting anything else. So I call your attention to the endorsement that actually ran in today’s paper — that of Elise Partin for mayor of Cayce. Certainly I want to make sure readers who […]
TweetElise Partin, the mayor of Cayce, brings to our attention (via Pinterest) “17 Tips to Make Your Life Easier.” It originally appeared on a blog called “Aimless Direction.” It’s a pretty good list. For instance, it offers a much better way to reheat pizza than nuking it in the microwave. Not that I really care, […]
TweetOne of the BEST things that happened last night was that Elise Partin won BIG in her bid for a full term as mayor of Cayce. She did this in spite of being against her own former city manager of many years’ experience, and despite the fact that everywhere she went campaigning, she had to […]
Tweet I won’t be, because for reasons that continue to elude me, my own long-established subdivision — which is clearly a part of West Columbia — isn’t within the city limits. So I have my bucolic existence out here in the county. Maybe that explains why we don’t have sidewalks. It definitely explains why we […]
TweetEDITOR’S NOTE: I’m not going to take this down for now, because if I did, the post correcting it would make no sense. But for the record: The chief wasn’t talking about Meg Kinnard at all. Mayor Elise Partin thought he was, and reached out to me to tell me about it, which led to […]
TweetToday was the kickoff of a program that a bunch of community leaders have been working on under the auspices of the Urban Land Institute. Here’s the release about the event: Midlands Reality Check Focuses on Growth and Progress for South Carolina’s Capital Region Columbia, S.C. – Midlands members of Urban Land Institute South Carolina, together […]
Tweet Soon, Columbians who head across the Blossom Street bridge will be welcomed by an attractive brick sign, and by attractive young women in jogging costume. Or so we are led to gather, from the artist’s rendering. Here’s hoping we are not disappointed by the actuality. Friendly competitor Clare Morris, who does publicity for the […]
TweetThis morning — very early this morning — I attended the latest “Power Breakfast” sponsored by the Columbia Regional Business Report. So did a lot of other people, packed into a ballroom at Embassy Suites. I’d like particularly to thank the friends who joined us at the ADCO table, right up front: Mary Pat Baldauf, […]
TweetTo me, the most memorable thing about Columbia Regional Business Report’s “Power Breakfast” this morning at Embassy Suites, where a cross-section of the business community heard a panel of Midlands mayors (Columbia’s Steve Benjamin, Lexington’s Randy Halfacre, Cayce’s Elise Partin, and Blythewood’s Keith Bailey) talk about our community’s future, was this tidbit: Steve Benjamin said […]
TweetAnd when I say Nelsen and the Navy, I don’t mean Nelson’s Navy — although I did find myself talking about the Napoleonic Wars at one point. This was another one of those days that was rich in material to blog about… with no time to blog. Which is the way the world seems to […]
TweetApparently not. I was gone, to Maryland and back, from Friday morning to Monday afternoon, and it doesn’t seem that much happened around here while I was away — hence my mostly hard-news-free posts yesterday. I see that the boys are giving Elise Partin a hard time in Cayce, but that doesn’t seem surprising somehow. […]
TweetRemember that last year, my colleagues and I endorsed Elise Partin in her successful bid to become mayor of Cayce? Endorsing in that particular election was unusual for us — we seldom got involved in municipal races outside of Columbia proper — but interest was high on both sides of the river after Cayce suddenly […]
TweetBy BRAD WARTHENEditorial Page EditorTHE TIME for reckoning has arrived. No, not the election; we just did that. I speak of my traditional post-mortem, in which I look back on the candidates this newspaper endorsed, and how they did. First, the obligatory disclaimers: Endorsements are about who should win, in the judgment of The […]
TweetHere are my predictions as to what I think will happen on the contested races that we dealt with in our endorsements. As always, endorsements are about who should win, not who will win. To fill that vacuum — and to help you see the difference — here are my prognostications (in which I place […]
TweetThis is an all-things-to-all-people post. Those of you who think we’re just another bunch of wild-eyed liberals who only back Democrats, just read this paragraph! I’ve done the count on this year’s endorsements (which you can go read here), and here’s the final count: We endorsed 8 Republicans (John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Joe Wilson, Nikki […]
TweetOK, here’s a surprise twist: Update: Per email from the chief, he was not talking about me, at all. Mayor @ElisePartin fed you bad information, causing needless time to even be spent on this. His email begins: “Ms. Kinnard, To be very honest with you, I had not heard your name associated with this …” […]
TweetJust got a post-election e-mail from the Southeastern Institute for Women in Politics, which had also hit me with releases a number of times before Tuesday. Here’s the gist: Congratulations to all of the brave female candidates running in South Carolina and their support teams. Women made progress in the South Carolina House of Representatives, […]