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As the 2016 election cycle heats up, South Carolina grabs national attention as the first primary in the South. The Palmetto State should take this opportunity to define the national agenda — putting a spotlight on what America needs to succeed.

The new "Star Wars" movie is fun to watch, and it took me back to my teenage days living in the world of Isaac Asimov’s galactic empire. But since those heady days, and on through all the "Star Wars" movies, things have gone terribly wrong.

If gun purchasers are required to register with the government, and we all know "the pen is mightier than the sword," perhaps state Rep. Mike Pitts has a point about registering journalists as well.

Eli Lake writes that the rules of engagement are threatening the success of our war in Afghanistan.

It’s rare these days to find anything that Hamas, the Palestinian Authority, the U.S. and Israel agree on. And yet when it comes to elections there is a quiet consensus against Palestinians choosing their leaders.

I read the article "The coverage gap" in the Jan. 24 Post and Courier. It hit very close to home since I have a son who has a mild form of autism, and he will lose his health care benefits on his 26th birthday. The article didn’t tell the whole story on why there is a coverage gap.

A Jan. 19 article was titled "College of Charleston president calls for the state to help fund crumbling infrastructure."

Buying a new bus can prove expensive for public transportation agencies. CARTA recently spent more than $400,000 apiece for four new buses to replace part of its aging fleet, for example.

It has been a decade since Congress addressed the laws governing the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). And that has been a particularly stressful 10 years for the Post Office, which bears legislatively imposed burdens that its stiff private competition does not.

LONDON — Ben Whishaw is trapped in a web of intrigue within a world of secrets. But he’s a long way from James Bond in "London Spy," a TV thriller that explores the murky, morally ambivalent side of British espionage and power.

NEW YORK — It’s the rare ingenue who gets to play the newbie role twice. But Sutton Foster, the star of the stealth hit sitcom "Younger," is having her breakout moment as a spunky young heroine on the rise, some 13 years after she was plucked from chorus-line obscurity for an award-winning turn on Broadway.

MANUFACTURING TOUR: The S.C. Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers and Trident Technical College hold a State of Manufacturing Tour and panel dicussion to showcase manufacturing and discuss ways to address the skills gap. 1:30-2:30 p.m. 7000 Rivers Ave., North Charleston. Scheduled speakers include: Jay Timmons, CEO of the...

Philip Owens of Cushman & Wakefield|Thalhimer repre-sented the buyer, Bowmen LLC, in its $1.4 million purchase of a 5,710-square-foot office and multifamily property at 313 East Bay St. from J.P. Deluca.

Some key business events of the past week.

A daylong forum on offshore drilling and other energy issues in South Carolina will take place this week in downtown Charleston.

Jeremy Betsill has been named as an assurance partner in the Charleston office of Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP. He has more than 15 years of experience. He has a bachelor’s degree in business administration and a master’s in accounting, both from Georgia Southern University. He is a certified public accountant.

BRYANT, Meri, Mount Pleasant

BRYANT, Meri Finanser Benezra, 85, of Mount Pleasant, widow of Richard H. Bryant, died Sunday. Arrangements by Stuhr’s Mount Pleasant Chapel.

Bob Webster, CEO of Palmetto Moon novelty and gift stores, started the retail company as a T-shirt kiosk in Citadel Mall in 2002.

� Jeremy Willits and Gerry Schauer of Avison Young represented the landlord in leasing 255 square feet of office space at 3 Broad St. to Ciri Colee LPC.

Ear for Music, a full-service entertainment company in Charleston, recently expanded its footprint to capitalize on the city’s thriving events industry.

A key undisclosed detail involving the sale of a local technology business late last year has now been disclosed.

Parents in one Knightsville neighborhood say Dorchester District 2 didn’t give fair warning before assigning their children to a new elementary school 4 miles away.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A project aimed at memorializing America’s slave-trade ports is moving to Rhode Island, where some 1,000 slave-trading voyages were launched.

Postal inspectors have intercepted a package in North Charleston that contained $10,000 in cash, court records show.