For 65 years, the identity of Philadelphia s Boy in the Box remained a mystery - until a breakthrough in October 2021 revealed his name: Joseph Augustus Zarelli.
time for tonight s rewrite. nikki haley, republican governor of south carolina and a rising star in the republican party, is in trouble. she did something inappropriate to a little girl and she got caught doing it. now she says she regrets it but still hasn t been able to bring herself to apologize either publicly or to the little girl. little girl s name is rene dudley and she is 25 years old. what haley did that haley now calls inappropriate is call rene dudley a little girl. because haley didn t like the article renee dudley wrote for charleston, south carolina s daily post courier under the headline, european vacation or legitimate business? in the fully researched meticulously reported piece,
dudley s article as saying, nikki haley was, quote, channeling marie antoinette. nickki haley said this when askd about renee dudley s article. god bless that little girl at the post and courier. her job is to create conflict, my job is to create jobs. in the job i m going to have jobs to show for it. calling her a little girl did not sit well with north carolinians. nikki haley had to put out a damage control statement that stopped short of an apology. the story painted a grossly inaccurate picture and was unprofessionally done, but my little girl comment was inappropriate and i regret that. everyone can have a bad day. i ll forgive her bad story if she ll forgive my poor choice of words. nikki haley has yet to contest a
government intervening in the marketplace is not a capitalist idea. government inserting itself into the marketplace in a heavy heavy-handed way through begging or special tax deals, trying to influence business decisions, private business decisions, to suit the government s current mood is a purely, purely socialistic idea. there is, at least, one republican in south carolina who understands this. south carolina republican state senator tom davis said this in renee dudley s article. if you get the fundamental things right, solid education and health care, capital will come to the state. davis said those are the functions of government, not creating jobs. it s a socialist state when the government s core function is to create jobs. well, at least he s half right. he s calling health care one of
renee dudley revealed nikki haley and her entourage spent at least, at least $127,000 on a trip to europe in june in search of, quote, jobs, jobs, jobs. the first place nikki haley decided to go to look for jobs for south carolinians was, of course, paris. a place that every republican knows is full of people who want to set up businesses in south carolina. perhaps the let s go looking for jobs in paris strategy explains why nikki haley s state has a higher unemployment rate than the national average, almost twofold percentage points above the national average. renee dudley s reporting details how nikki haley chose to stay in five-star hotels and run up a bar bill at the paris ritz, provoking the south carolina democratic party chairman, dick harputlian to be quoted in renee