Frederick Goodwin News Today

The Town of Santee will celebrate its 75th anniversary in April with several days of events for all ages. The events will include fireworks, a movie night, a golf tournament, a gala, a gospel music festival, a prayer breakfast, and a fun festival featuring amusement rides, entertainment, and food trucks.

Cook Islands ‘godfather of modern politics’ and first premier, the late Albert Royale Henry or better known as Papa Arapati, has been given a formal pardon by the King’s Representative (KR) Sir Tom Marsters.

A new Head of State residence is on the table for Rarotonga, but it’s unclear when, where and what it’s going to cost.

SANTEE – Back in 2015, unleaded gasoline sold for roughly $2.43 a gallon in South Carolina. A brand-new, no-frills Ford F-150 pickup truck sold for $26,615. The U.S. Consumer Price

Santee Town Council held three public hearings before raising water rates by about 40%, but some customers didn’t fully grasp the impact until they saw their bills, Mayor Donnie Hilliard

Has the old U.S. Highway 15-301 bridge over Lake Marion been reopened to walkers and bicyclists, quietly and without fanfare or announcement?

Te Kapua’anga O Te Evangelia’ Meeting House in Takuvaine, a special gathering place which was built to commemorate Gospel history, has reopened its doors following a two-month-long renovation project.

The best way to ensure seniors' access to new and effective drugsis to transform Medicare into a new system based on patient choiceand market competition. Short of that, Congress should targetfunding to low-income seniors who have financial difficulty inpurchasing prescription drug coverage.

Some in Congress would make an already deeply flawed Medicare drug benefit worse by expanding the bureaucracy's power to manage and price prescription drug coverage, making seniors' coverage clearlyinferior to existing coverage through private-sector pharmacybenefit managers. The government should avoid imposing drugsubstitution, restricting market access, limiting intellectualproperty rights or pricing freedom, or extracting price concessionsby non-market means.

Managing Editors Note: Heres yet another updated version of this post by Adriana Gamondes. Last May we told you that there was a new hire by Autism Speaks of a Pfizer Executive. This week AS made an announcement from the...