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‘Just disrespectful’: COVID-19 pandemic is making South Carolina roads trashier Associated Press
South Carolina’s roads are getting trashier because of COVID-19.
“It’s just disrespectful to the environment, you know?” driver Nick Smelko told Channel 9. “Take your trash and just keep it in your car and find a trash can at a rest stop or something.”
The pandemic is keeping inmate crews and volunteers from gathering to clean up highways, anti-litter group Palmetto Pride told The Post and Courier of Charleston.
The problem is compounded by more people are going to drive-thrus for food and then tossing disposable containers out their vehicles, South Carolina Department of Transportation Secretary Christy Hall said.
Guantanamo, Iraq and COVID 19. Can military doctor save South Carolina from virus? Sammy Fretwell, The State (Columbia, S.C.)
Jan. 31 In three decades of public service as a Navy doctor, Edward Simmer has counseled sailors and soldiers shell-shocked by the trauma of war.
He s faced angry military retirees, upset about changes in health care. And he s testified before Congress about helping military families with special needs children.
Now, Simmer is seeking to take charge of South Carolina s embattled health department during a disease crisis that is killing thousands of people.
But not everybody is sure why he wants the job. He s a 56-year-old career military man who was recommended for a job with a high burnout rate at a time when the state Legislature is discussing whether to break up the Department of Health and Environmental Control.