Opinions

You have tools to use to hold government accountable

Our reporters regularly access government data to keep our readers informed about how government actions are impacting them and the community. Freedom of Information laws protect our ability to access information. They protect your access too. Within the past year, we reported on the...

Readers share ideas to improve community news

The Daniel Island News, along with publications across the country, recognize National Sunshine Week, March 16-22. As part of ongoing efforts to improve our coverage, we posed some survey questions seeking reader input about the types of services readers expect from us and what they’d want...

Sunshine Week kicks off March 16

Community newspapers across our state will celebrate Sunshine Week March 16-22. Sunshine Week is not just about local news coverage. It’s a nonpartisan collaboration among groups in journalism, civic, education, government and private sectors that shines a light on the importance of public...

How good are you at calming yourself?

Nervous, worried, anxious, stressed – call it what you will, each day offers moments that trigger our system. There’s no avoiding them: it’s simply figuring out how to manage them. And let’s be clear – stress isn’t all bad. Note the authors at calm.com: “One type of stress, known as...

What’s in a name?

Setting out from Hamburg, Germany, one day to give a concert in London, violinist Fritz Kreisler had an hour before his boat sailed. He wandered into a music shop, where the proprietor asked if he could look at the violin Kreisler was carrying. He then vanished and returned with two...

Learn to keep the peace at work

“Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.” - St. Francis of Assisi What is the price and value of peace to you? To what extremes do you go to keep the peace at work or home? Are you, by nature, the peacemaker during a conflict? What do you...

Dig in and grow your inner peace with a garden

“Into the garden I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.” – attributed to John Muir, environmentalist I love this quote. It captures the essence of what being outside in the garden means to me. A garden provides a place to escape the stress and worries of everyday life to the...

‘Don’t touch the thermostat!’

"Be a thermostat, not a thermometer." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The earliest recorded history of the thermostat dates back to 1620 when the Dutch inventor Cornelius Drebbel used mercury to control the temperature in chicken coops. Later, in 1830, Andrew Ure, a Scottish chemist,...

Are you Type A, Type B, or Type U?

Some notions seem to linger. The idea that you and I have either a Type A or Type B personality has lingered for more than 60 years. It’s probably time to let that go. The concept arrived in the late 1950s, courtesy of two cardiologists who bid to link personality types to health outcomes....

Readers offer support for shops impacted by Publix construction

It has been over six weeks since the Daniel Island Publix closed for demolition and renovation. The absence of a grocery store anchor for the shopping center is impacting the other small local businesses at the center. In general, losing an anchor grocery store can cause a ripple effect of...