Andy Brack

Charleston

Publisher at The Charleston City Paper

Editor and Publisher at Statehouse Report

Editor and Publisher at Charleston Currents

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Articles

Andy Brack: Prepare before you show up at DMV

4 days ago | indexjournal.com | Andy Brack

It took four tries and three different state Department of Motor Vehicle offices before a new-to-me car got a South Carolina title and license plate. On two in-person attempts, I gave up when I realized lines were two hours long and then three hours long. It didn’t help that people who have had seven years to get their REAL ID were freaking out and flooding the agency. So after a couple of days, I went to another office where the line was shorter.
Brack: Prepare before you show up at DMV

5 days ago | charlestoncitypaper.com | Andy Brack

Waiting in line at the DMV office on Leeds Avenue in North Charleston. Credit: Andy Brack It took four tries and three different state Department of Motor Vehicle offices before a new-to-me car got a South Carolina title and license plate. On two in-person attempts, I gave up when I realized lines were two hours long and then three hours long.
Mystery Photo: Boxy building

5 days ago | charlestoncitypaper.com | Andy Brack

Here’s a boxy building in a South Carolina town. Where was this picture taken? What is it? Make sure to add your name and hometown to your guess and send to: [email protected]. Our most recent mystery, “Pink clouds,” was supposed to be a little easier than in recent weeks. It showed a close-up of the cables on the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge in Charleston with pink clouds in the background.
Perfect playlists to make your music purr

6 days ago | charlestoncitypaper.com | Andy Brack

Before my sister died a few months back, she asked me to make a playlist of her favorite songs to be aired in the background during a remembrance celebration. Illustration by Scott SuchyMusic meant the world to her. A trained musicologist with a special affinity toward the music of Renaissance, she could hear the one note in a symphonic concert that was wrong. She thrilled to everything from a Chopin polonaise or Beethoven concerto to a hip tune by Trombone Shorty or Rage Against the Machine.
Milestone: 90% of S.C. shelter pets saved from euthanasia, group says

6 days ago | charlestoncitypaper.com | Andy Brack

Charleston Animal Society's local shelter rescues thousands of animals per year. | Courtesy CAS Charleston animal welfare activists this week reached a milestone they’ve dreamed of for more than a decade — saving 90% of shelter animals in the state from euthanized death.
Andy Brack: A British geopolitical analyst on trade between China, SC

1 week ago | indexjournal.com | Andy Brack

Imagine my surprise early on April 22 when I saw a column in The New York Times about China, tariffs and trade by British geopolitical analyst and author James Crabtree. “I know that guy,” I thought, immediately remembering a tall and lanky graduate of the London School of Economics who volunteered for a couple of months during my ill-fated (but fun) 2000 congressional campaign.
Brack: A British geopolitical analyst on trade between China, S.C.

1 week ago | charlestoncitypaper.com | Andy Brack

Imagine my surprise early on April 22 when I saw a column in The New York Times about China, tariffs and trade by British geopolitical analyst and author James Crabtree. “I know that guy,” I thought, immediately remembering a tall and lanky graduate of the London School of Economics who volunteered for a couple of months during my ill-fated (but fun) 2000 congressional campaign.
Statehouse Report 24.18: Fisheries, bills, trade

1 week ago | charlestoncitypaper.com | Andy Brack

BIG STORY: S.C. fisheries mostly healthy, but face threats MORE NEWS: Bills to watch as S.C. legislative clock ticks down LOWCOUNTRY, Ariail: Ocean wail BRACK: A British geopolitical analyst on trade between China, S.C. MYSTERY PHOTO: Pink clouds FEEDBACK: Send us your thoughts S.C. fisheries mostly healthy, but face threats By Jack O’Toole, Capital Bureau | In an age of relentless cynicism about government, talking with the fishermen, scientists, politicians and regulators who manage South...
Andy Brack: Stop shooting US in foot on trade

2 weeks ago | indexjournal.com | Andy Brack

South Carolina makes stuff — a lot of stuff — and sends it all over the world. But with the volatility in world markets and global trade caused by the unforced errors and bullying by President Donald Trump and his administration over unnecessary tariffs, stuff that we make and export face an uncertain future. People could lose jobs. Some businesses could go under.
Brack: Stop shooting U.S. in feet on trade

2 weeks ago | charlestoncitypaper.com | Andy Brack

Leatherman Terminal with the Ravenel Bridge over the Cooper River in the background | Photo courtesy S.C. Ports South Carolina makes stuff – a lot of stuff – and sends it all over the world. But with the volatility in world markets and global trade caused by the unforced errors and bullying by President Donald Trump and his administration over unnecessary tariffs, stuff that we make and export face an uncertain future. People could lose jobs.