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Greenway speaks out almost 8 months after termination By Delayna Earley The Island News Former Beaufort County Administrator Eric Greenway broke his silence regarding his termination in July 2023 and the weeks preceding during an interview with a local podcaster on Thursday, March 7. Greenway was the featured guest on Beaufort County’s House of Cards, which is a local podcast run by former County Council member Mike Covert, and during his interview he defends himself against the Eric accusations that Greenway have been made against him by members of the community and members of County Council. The former County Administrator was fired from his position in July 2023 in part to his hiring of Lisa Lynch to fill the role of Wellness Director. Lynch was hired to the newly created position, in part, to help with the opioid crisis in Beaufort County. Council cited Lynch’s hiring as one of the reasons for Greenway’s termination because they felt that Greenway hired her for personal reasons and not because she was
A woman looks at the African American History Monument on the Statehouse grounds on Thursday, March 7, 2024. Lawmakers want to put up another sculpture commemorating Civil War hero Robert Smalls, which would be the first monument for a single Black person on the complex. Skylar Laird/S.C. Daily Gazette.
It’s about time
Lawmakers want statue of Black Civil War hero Robert Smalls outside Statehouse By Skylar Laird and Seanna Adcox SCDailyGazette.com COLUMBIA — A bipartisan group of South Carolina legislators wants to add a statue on Statehouse grounds commemorating Civil War hero and lawmaker Robert Smalls. If approved, the statue would be the first monument honoring an
individual Black person at South Carolina’s capitol complex. A monument that honors the struggles and contributions of Robert Black South CarSmalls olinians from the slave trade through the 20th century became part of a 2000 com-
promise that took the Confederate flag off the Statehouse dome. Black trailblazers are recognizable in the carved panels, but no one is identified. All of the stand-alone monuments, markers and statues memorializing specific South Carolinians on Statehouse grounds
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Moore kicks off campaign for Congress at Smalls’ bust
Charleston Democrat Michael B. Moore, great-great-grandson of Beaufort native, Civil War hero and Reconstruction-era Congressman Robert Smalls, officially announced his candidacy for the 1st U.S. Congressional District seat currently held by Republican Nancy Mace. Moore made his announcement near Smalls’ bronze bust, seen at right, Thursday, March 7, on the grounds of Beaufort’s Tabernacle Baptist Church. Bob Sofaly/The Island News
By Mike McCombs The Island News In 1976, a 13-year-old Michael B. Moore unveiled a bust of his great-great-grandfather — Beaufort native, Civil War hero and Reconstruction-era Congressman Robert Smalls — and delivered a speech commemorating the dedication of the artwork in the courtyard of Beaufort’s Tabernacle Baptist Church. Roughly 48 years later, Moore stood in front of that same bust of Smalls on Thursday, March 7, and officially announced his candidacy for the 1st Congressional District seat currently held by Charleston Republican Nancy Mace. “This place is a special special
place,” Moore said. Moore said he was motivated to serve on that day in 1976, and now he’s “motivated to try and make a difference for those who are here today.” An experienced businessman, Moore said the economy isn’t working for everyone anymore. He said when he read that during the COVID-19 pandemic that the top 1 percent in the economy created twice as much wealth as the other 99 percent, “that system feels broken.” “We need to create a system where more people have a better opportunity to take advantage of their skills,” he said. He chided Republicans looking
to cut Social Security and Medicare, saying these aren’t entitlements but instead earned benefits, “systems these hard-working men and women have been paying into since their first job at 15 or 16 years old.” He criticized America’s health care system as one focused on maximizing profit instead of taking care of people. And he laments that women have fewer rights over their own bodies than they did over the past 50 years. He supports the Equal Rights Amendment, pay equity and women’s reproductive freedom.
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