Mayor Joe Riley says that Councilman Jimmy Gallant is ‘misguided’ when he says that the mayor needs to keep them in the loop about what’s happening in the fire department.

According to CFD spokesman Mark Rupple, outgoing Chief Rusty Thomas promoted 16 firefighters this week...now a councilman is calling an emergency meeting to recind those promotions

Appearing on TODAY...Brian Williams, Katie Couric, and Charles Gibson responded to charges that the media didn’t ask the “right” questions in the run up to the war in Iraq. The accusations are made in a new tell-all book by a former White House aide.

OK, maybe mania is a strong word. But it’s been a long time since a movie prompted the women in my life (boy that phrase makes me sound like a stud!) to take a day off work, or plan a party coinciding with it’s release. 

The SC Education Lottery Beneficiary Brochure does a pretty good job explaining how much money the lottery made, and how much went to the schools.

I invite you to share memories of your fallen service member in the comments section of today’s blog.

This email showed up in my inbox the other day. I’m all for it! The 14-year-old son of a New York City firefighter killed in 9/11 is circulating a petition to make 9/11 a legal holiday. 

You on 2 reporters sent a ton of pictures and videos from the storms on Tuesday night. Carl and Nancy Mittelstadt sent this video from their home in the Brickyard Plantation in Mount Pleasant.

This is an incredible story.  An officer in Michigan is banged up an sore, but it could have been so much worse. Check out the video as officer Jason Sakowski stares down an out of control car bearing down on him.

I made this point as a response to the one and only comment to my blog entry on Tuesday. There are more than 50 comments to entries which cast blame, point fingers, or condemn the actions of the Charleston Fire Department in recent days. 

Now that the mayor made his choice, Chief Ronnie Classen has the task of keeping the ship afloat while the search for a new fire chief continues.

Since things got so ugly last week, I thought today would be a good time to bring it back to what causes emotions to run so high in the first place.  Then nine guys who gave their lives on June 18th.

In an interview published in Saturday’s Post and Courier, Riley said Goldstein is to blame, and the Charleston Fire Department and the City did everything possible to prevent the tragedy.

Charleston City councilmen tell me that they are “dying to help, but the mayor doesn’t want our help”.

Firefighterhourly.com author Jay Lowry is listed as the Charleston Fire Inspector on the last inspection of the Sofa Super Store prior to the deadly fire.