on-the-record
Trump’s payroll tax deferral causes concerns for Upstate businesses
Furman University's Brent Nelsen, a politics and international affairs professor, spoke to WYFF News 4 reporter Taggart Houck about the payroll tax deferral program President Donald Trump imposed through executive action. The tax holiday allows...
Continue ReadingCuomo aide picked to run SUNY draws criticism, optimism
James Malatras, a member of New York Gov. Cuomo's inner circle, has been selected as the 14th chancellor of SUNY, a network of 64 campuses serving more than 415,000 students. The board's pick, which circumvented...
Continue ReadingTeachers are asked to accept unfair nobility tax
Citing a Pew Center Research survey, Cynthia King notes that teaching ranks only second to military service on the spectrum of most noble contributions to society. In an opinion piece appearing in Jacksonville.com, King, Furman...
Continue ReadingPurple, gold lights shine on landmarks, honor women’s voting rights
As the nation celebrated the 100th anniversary of women winning the right to vote, buildings and landmarks became beacons of purple, gold and white, the colors of the women's suffrage movement. The in the Aug....
Continue ReadingSen. Graham may be ‘in trouble’ with re-election in South Carolina
A FOX News article reports that Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham may be in for his toughest re-election fight yet against well-funded Democratic challenger Jaime Harrison. Danielle Vinson, a professor of politics and international affairs at...
Continue ReadingHow the suffrage movement unfolded in Greenville
Furman Distinguished University Public Historian and Scholar Courtney Tollison '99 writes an opinion piece for The Greenville News. She chronicles South Carolina's role in the women's suffrage movement, for which Greenville’s contributions began in 1890,...
Continue ReadingSC Democrats leverage Biden-Harris ticket to help boost down-ballot turnout
Furman University's Danielle Vinson '89, a professor in the Department of Politics and International Affairs, spoke to reporters for The State about Joe Biden's pick for his vice presidential running mate, Kamala Harris. Vinson explains...
Continue ReadingCOVID-19 impact adds hurdles to economic growth
Furman University's Kailash Khandke, an economics professor, has written an opinion piece in Greenville Business Magazine. In it, he draws comparisons of our COVID-19 times to the Great Depression and the Great Recession and makes...
Continue ReadingLimitations to ‘coming out’ as a social justice strategy
Furman University's Scott Henderson, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Education and faculty sponsor of the Furman Pride Alliance, recently published “The Political Is Personal: Limitations to Coming Out as a Social Justice Strategy”...
Continue ReadingAlumna pens healing words in recovery from COVID-19
Anna Downs ’16 became ill with COVID-19 in March, about two months away from graduating medical school at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. She’s still recovering, but being a health care professional struck...
Continue ReadingPhilosophy for the pandemic
In early March, as Aaron Simmons saw the COVID-19 pandemic develop, he watched the public grow increasingly anxious, scared and insecure. He felt it himself when he dropped his son, Atticus, off at his elementary...
Continue ReadingImpeachment inquiry hardening political lines in Washington, expert says
Pressure from members of his own Republican Party was the turning point in President Richard Nixon’s decision to resign on Aug. 8, 1974. Nobody knows what will happen from here as President Donald Trump faces...
Continue Reading- « Previous Page
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- …
- 7
- Next Page »