https://www.jan-collins.com/ Award-winning writer, author, and editor en-us Mon, 07 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://www.jan-collins.com/baby-bust/ https://www.jan-collins.com/baby-bust/ Mon, 07 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT When I was growing up, American women had lots and lots of babies. Most of my friends came from families with at least three children, and often four or… https://www.jan-collins.com/keeping-the-newsroom-lights-on/ https://www.jan-collins.com/keeping-the-newsroom-lights-on/ Wed, 05 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT Newspapers are disappearing. Since 2005, more than 3,200 print newspapers in the United States have vanished, and they continue to disappear at a rate of… https://www.jan-collins.com/bishop-budde-has-her-say/ https://www.jan-collins.com/bishop-budde-has-her-say/ Mon, 03 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT The country sat up and paid attention on Inauguration Day when the Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, the Episcopal bishop of Washington, looked Donald… https://www.jan-collins.com/doing-the-haka/ https://www.jan-collins.com/doing-the-haka/ Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT The video has gone viral, and it’s easy to see why: a young woman who is the youngest member of New Zealand’s Parliament performing the scary ‘haka’ dance… https://www.jan-collins.com/roar/ https://www.jan-collins.com/roar/ Tue, 06 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT My excellent daughter-in-law recently lent me one of her favorite books titled Roar by the Irish writer Cecelia Ahern. It quickly became one of my… https://www.jan-collins.com/a-towering-woman-of-achievement/ https://www.jan-collins.com/a-towering-woman-of-achievement/ Wed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT I saw a poll the other day saying that fewer Black Americans plan to vote in this year’s upcoming presidential election than voted in 2020. (Six months… https://www.jan-collins.com/when-good-people-dont-pay-attention/ https://www.jan-collins.com/when-good-people-dont-pay-attention/ Tue, 27 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT A century ago, a charismatic charlatan in Indiana by the name of D.C. Stephenson “set in motion the [Ku Klux] Klan’s takeover of great swaths of America.”… https://www.jan-collins.com/dont-trust-anyone-over-30/ https://www.jan-collins.com/dont-trust-anyone-over-30/ Tue, 07 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT When I was in my 20s, the mantra of freewheeling young people was, “Don’t Trust Anyone Over 30”. And we didn’t. The median age of the U.S. today is 38.8,… https://www.jan-collins.com/babies-and-baby-steps/ https://www.jan-collins.com/babies-and-baby-steps/ Tue, 22 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMT A British woman I know, who lives in California, recently gave birth to her first child. Her employer, Google, granted her six months of paid parental… https://www.jan-collins.com/dr-sue-rex-teacher-extraordinaire/ https://www.jan-collins.com/dr-sue-rex-teacher-extraordinaire/ Fri, 04 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMT Sue Rex never wanted to be anything but a teacher. From her childhood days in Pennsylvania instructing her “classroom” of dolls to her decades as a… https://www.jan-collins.com/sister-fidelma-is-on-the-case/ https://www.jan-collins.com/sister-fidelma-is-on-the-case/ Wed, 19 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT Another “Sister Fidelma” mystery (#34 in the series) will be published in July, and this makes me happy. For nearly three decades I’ve been an… https://www.jan-collins.com/about-blimmin-time/ https://www.jan-collins.com/about-blimmin-time/ Thu, 12 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT A few months ago, a dear friend of mine in New Zealand phoned to give me some exciting news: her country had just made history as female lawmakers in… https://www.jan-collins.com/saying-no-to-holiday-stress/ https://www.jan-collins.com/saying-no-to-holiday-stress/ Mon, 12 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT Years ago, when I was a newspaper reporter working full-time and raising two young children as a single mother, I went to see my doctor. I was tired and… https://www.jan-collins.com/using-our-voice/ https://www.jan-collins.com/using-our-voice/ Tue, 11 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT I recently finished an engrossing historical novel called “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan” by Lisa See, in which the author introduces her readers to nu… https://www.jan-collins.com/truth-telling-women/ https://www.jan-collins.com/truth-telling-women/ Sun, 31 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT Have you noticed lately how many truth-tellers — commonly known as “whistleblowers” — in this country are women? A star example is Cassidy Hutchinson, the… https://www.jan-collins.com/465-2/ https://www.jan-collins.com/465-2/ Sun, 05 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT In 1979 I met Julia Child, the iconic “French Chef” of television and cookbook fame. She and her husband, Paul, came to a reception in Cambridge,… https://www.jan-collins.com/the-juggling-act-continues/ https://www.jan-collins.com/the-juggling-act-continues/ Sun, 01 May 2022 00:00:00 GMT The cri de coeur from U.S. Supreme Court nominee Kentanji Brown Jackson at her confirmation hearings earlier this spring pierced my heart, too. “I’m… https://www.jan-collins.com/ask-a-woman-to-run/ https://www.jan-collins.com/ask-a-woman-to-run/ Wed, 02 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT One of my granddaughters is a topnotch volleyball and basketball player at her middle school. Her younger sister is a crackerjack softball player and also… https://www.jan-collins.com/play-ball/ https://www.jan-collins.com/play-ball/ Tue, 01 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT When I was a kid growing up in suburban Detroit, I loved to watch my Detroit Tigers play baseball. I couldn’t wait to tune in to their games on television… https://www.jan-collins.com/womens-voices-in-the-new-year/ https://www.jan-collins.com/womens-voices-in-the-new-year/ Sun, 02 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT Traditionally, the new year is viewed as a time of rebirth. We’ve taken stock of our losses and are ready to begin our lives anew – with vim, vigor, and… https://www.jan-collins.com/2021-win-lose-or-draw/ https://www.jan-collins.com/2021-win-lose-or-draw/ Thu, 09 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT The year 2021 was a mixed bag for women, with momentous gains notched alongside disheartening losses. On the plus side, we saw the first woman - who is… https://www.jan-collins.com/thanks-to-our-mentors/ https://www.jan-collins.com/thanks-to-our-mentors/ Sat, 06 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMT The poet Maya Angelou mentored Oprah. At her Chicago law firm, Michelle Robinson mentored the young Barack Obama, who later married her. In Hollywood,… https://www.jan-collins.com/taking-a-look-at-womens-parity/ https://www.jan-collins.com/taking-a-look-at-womens-parity/ Sun, 26 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMT Women are 51 percent of the population, yet we are still less than one-quarter of our country’s leaders. Ms. Magazine has done a compilation of… https://www.jan-collins.com/what-does-a-leader-look-like/ https://www.jan-collins.com/what-does-a-leader-look-like/ Fri, 27 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT What does a leader look like? Organizational psychologists will point to well-known workshop exercises where executives are asked to draw a picture of an… https://www.jan-collins.com/and-the-numbers-are/ https://www.jan-collins.com/and-the-numbers-are/ Tue, 17 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT After a four-month delay caused by the pandemic, the U.S. Census Bureau last week released detailed 2020 population data for all 50 states and certain… https://www.jan-collins.com/pin-stripe-suits-and-fedoras/ https://www.jan-collins.com/pin-stripe-suits-and-fedoras/ Thu, 17 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMT There is an old saying in journalism that goes like this: “If your mother says she loves you, check it out.” This is amusing to journalists because it is… https://www.jan-collins.com/prime-time-for-child-care-finally/ https://www.jan-collins.com/prime-time-for-child-care-finally/ Thu, 20 May 2021 00:00:00 GMT For half a century, U.S. policymakers ignored child care. Families (read: women) were essentially on our own as we struggled to maneuver both home and… https://www.jan-collins.com/happy-birthday-to-sc-women-in-leadership/ https://www.jan-collins.com/happy-birthday-to-sc-women-in-leadership/ Thu, 15 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMT Last week I went to a birthday party. It was a glorious spring day at Boyd Plaza in downtown Columbia, where South Carolina Women in Leadership (SC WIL)… https://www.jan-collins.com/the-pandemic-and-our-brains/ https://www.jan-collins.com/the-pandemic-and-our-brains/ Thu, 18 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT I don’t know about you, but I have had trouble concentrating during this pandemic. I used to be able to sit down and read or write for hours at a time. No… https://www.jan-collins.com/a-rose-by-any-other-name/ https://www.jan-collins.com/a-rose-by-any-other-name/ Fri, 19 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMT “…would smell as sweet,” remarks Juliet Capulet in William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.” I imagine Juliet is correct but, actually, I have no idea… https://www.jan-collins.com/the-waiting-game/ https://www.jan-collins.com/the-waiting-game/ Thu, 14 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT So now, in this new year, it’s a waiting game. As COVID-19 has killed close to 400,000 Americans, we wait to receive the vaccines that cutting-edge… https://www.jan-collins.com/christmas-2020/ https://www.jan-collins.com/christmas-2020/ Thu, 17 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMT Yuletide is supposed to be a time of joy, peace, and goodwill. Christmas 2020, however, will be a Christmas like none we’ve seen in more than a century.… https://www.jan-collins.com/lazarus-rises-again/ https://www.jan-collins.com/lazarus-rises-again/ Fri, 20 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMT This is the story of Lazarus, a vehicle that has risen from the dead more times than its Biblical namesake and which continues to reside proudly in our… https://www.jan-collins.com/thank-you-rbg/ https://www.jan-collins.com/thank-you-rbg/ Thu, 15 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMT In 1971, I interviewed a young doctor in Michigan who had been working as an ER physician but wanted to open her own medical practice. She applied for a… https://www.jan-collins.com/i-believe-anita-hill-goes-virtual-in-2020/ https://www.jan-collins.com/i-believe-anita-hill-goes-virtual-in-2020/ Fri, 18 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMT Since 1991, thousands of women (and supportive men) from all over South Carolina have attended the now iconic “I Believe Anita Hill!” annual celebration… https://www.jan-collins.com/mickey-mantle-and-me/ https://www.jan-collins.com/mickey-mantle-and-me/ Thu, 20 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMT When I was a kid in the late 1950s, the exhortation to “Play Ball!”, which heralded the start of Major League Baseball each spring, put me in a state of… https://www.jan-collins.com/i-want-my-life-back/ https://www.jan-collins.com/i-want-my-life-back/ Thu, 16 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMT I want my life back. I want to see movies again on the big screen. I want the public library to reopen. I want to eat at bustling restaurants. I want to… https://www.jan-collins.com/hushhush-sweet-charlotte-2/ https://www.jan-collins.com/hushhush-sweet-charlotte-2/ Thu, 18 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMT Charlotte had been wearing widow’s black for nearly eight months when she began, involuntarily at first, to think about Harold. Dashing, charming Harold.… https://www.jan-collins.com/what-would-grandpa-bill-say/ https://www.jan-collins.com/what-would-grandpa-bill-say/ Thu, 18 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMT America in 2020 is a scary time to be a journalist. To be on the front lines, reporting on the social and racial unrest in the United States today, is a… https://www.jan-collins.com/as-i-was-saying/ https://www.jan-collins.com/as-i-was-saying/ Wed, 03 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMT As the Covid-19 pandemic rages, many of us have learned to work virtually, engaging in teleconferencing and staying glued to our digital devices. The U.S.… https://www.jan-collins.com/john-wayne-and-the-virus/ https://www.jan-collins.com/john-wayne-and-the-virus/ Thu, 14 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT When I was 12 years old, I met John Wayne. He graciously gave me his autograph, which sprawls across an entire page of the red leather autograph book I… https://www.jan-collins.com/domestic-abuse-in-the-age-of-covid-19/ https://www.jan-collins.com/domestic-abuse-in-the-age-of-covid-19/ Fri, 17 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT Imagine having an abusive partner. Now imagine being confined to your home for weeks on end with your abuser. This is the double menace that domestic… https://www.jan-collins.com/women-in-the-time-of-covid-19/ https://www.jan-collins.com/women-in-the-time-of-covid-19/ Wed, 01 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT Back in 1965, future British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher famously declared, “If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a… https://www.jan-collins.com/navigating-the-second-wave/ https://www.jan-collins.com/navigating-the-second-wave/ Thu, 19 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT In 1970, I read the The Feminine Mystique, the blockbuster book published seven years earlier by Betty Friedan that explored the idea of women finding… https://www.jan-collins.com/women-girls-and-climate-change/ https://www.jan-collins.com/women-girls-and-climate-change/ Thu, 20 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT Climate change is all around us. Last week, it was Storm Ciara that tore across the United Kingdom and brought dangerous levels of rain, wind, snow, and… https://www.jan-collins.com/putting-women-in-charge/ https://www.jan-collins.com/putting-women-in-charge/ Sat, 18 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT Last month I read an article titled, “The Future Is Young and Female.” Soon after, I saw a photo of Finland’s new prime minister, Sanna Marin, who is 34… https://www.jan-collins.com/silence-is-not-the-answer/ https://www.jan-collins.com/silence-is-not-the-answer/ Fri, 20 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT “I am 57 years old and I have not begun to get over that day of murder,” says Michael Fechter. Fechter, who lives in California now, was a high-school… https://www.jan-collins.com/i-didnt-just-lose-carlotta-that-day/ https://www.jan-collins.com/i-didnt-just-lose-carlotta-that-day/ Thu, 14 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT It has been 42 years since that October afternoon in 1977 when Carlotta Hartness and her friend Tommy Taylor were shot to death near a baseball park in… https://www.jan-collins.com/inspector-gamache-je-taime/ https://www.jan-collins.com/inspector-gamache-je-taime/ Thu, 17 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMT J’adore Armand Gamache. That would be Chief Inspector Gamache, head of homicide in the Sûreté du Québec, the provincial police force of Québec, Canada. My… https://www.jan-collins.com/men-and-guns/ https://www.jan-collins.com/men-and-guns/ Thu, 19 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMT And so, the killings continue apace. In the month of August alone, 53 people died in mass shootings in the United States. The final carnage last month… https://www.jan-collins.com/the-unsettling-truth/ https://www.jan-collins.com/the-unsettling-truth/ Mon, 12 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT If you are a white man, you have an excellent chance of being elected/appointed to a governing board at one of South Carolina’s 10 public universities. If… https://www.jan-collins.com/needed-more-leaders-who-look-like-me/ https://www.jan-collins.com/needed-more-leaders-who-look-like-me/ Fri, 19 Apr 2019 00:00:00 GMT If I lived in Colorado, nearly half my state legislators would look like me. But because I live in South Carolina (and despite our state being 51.5… https://www.jan-collins.com/where-are-all-the-female-college-presidents/ https://www.jan-collins.com/where-are-all-the-female-college-presidents/ Fri, 15 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT In the next few months, a new president will be appointed to lead the University of South Carolina. Considering the school’s 218-year history, odds are… https://www.jan-collins.com/well-done-ms-athill/ https://www.jan-collins.com/well-done-ms-athill/ Fri, 15 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMT The last volume of Diana Athill’s multi-part memoir was published in 2016 when she was 99 years old. She died last month in London at age 101. You are… https://www.jan-collins.com/hear-us-roar/ https://www.jan-collins.com/hear-us-roar/ Fri, 18 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT Women of “a certain age,” as the French say, will remember the powerful song by Helen Reddy called “I Am Woman (Hear Me Roar)”—a 1971 hymn to gutsy,… https://www.jan-collins.com/journalism-in-the-year-of-the-woman/ https://www.jan-collins.com/journalism-in-the-year-of-the-woman/ Fri, 16 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMT I read an article the other day entitled “25 Dying Professions to Avoid”. Journalism was one of them. For people in my profession, that disturbing… https://www.jan-collins.com/reprise-anita-hill-and-christine-blasey-ford/ https://www.jan-collins.com/reprise-anita-hill-and-christine-blasey-ford/ Fri, 19 Oct 2018 00:00:00 GMT I still believe Anita Hill. I believe Christine Blasey Ford. Each and every one of my female friends also believe these brave women. Truly, as a colleague… https://www.jan-collins.com/captain-marvel-and-the-year-of-the-woman/ https://www.jan-collins.com/captain-marvel-and-the-year-of-the-woman/ Fri, 21 Sep 2018 00:00:00 GMT The promotions have already started for Captain Marvel, a live-action film featuring the fictional female superhero from Marvel Comics that will be… https://www.jan-collins.com/lifelong-learning-for-seasoned-adults/ https://www.jan-collins.com/lifelong-learning-for-seasoned-adults/ Fri, 20 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMT I am a “seasoned adult,” which, in lifelong learning parlance, means I am over 50. And, I want to “thrive in life’s second half,” as the Osher Lifelong… https://www.jan-collins.com/back-to-the-motor-city/ https://www.jan-collins.com/back-to-the-motor-city/ Fri, 15 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMT Perhaps Thomas Wolfe was wrong. Maybe you can go home again. Last month I travelled to the Detroit area, where I grew up, for a nephew’s wedding. And lo… https://www.jan-collins.com/the-high-cost-of-mothers-day/ https://www.jan-collins.com/the-high-cost-of-mothers-day/ Fri, 18 May 2018 00:00:00 GMT My youngest granddaughter, Sylvie, gave me a sneak preview last week of her gift to her mother for Mother’s Day. It was a charming booklet, hand-drawn in… https://www.jan-collins.com/when-women-win-elections-does-everyone-win/ https://www.jan-collins.com/when-women-win-elections-does-everyone-win/ Fri, 20 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMT What pops into your head when someone mentions Iceland, that beautiful island nation in the North Atlantic? That it’s a land of creeping glaciers,… https://www.jan-collins.com/dont-bet-against-the-kids/ https://www.jan-collins.com/dont-bet-against-the-kids/ Fri, 16 Mar 2018 00:00:00 GMT And so, will our children finally lead us out of the wilderness of gun violence, which is literally slaughtering our young people before our eyes? Have we… https://www.jan-collins.com/metoo-comes-of-age/ https://www.jan-collins.com/metoo-comes-of-age/ Fri, 19 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT The #MeToo movement that erupted in Hollywood last fall and then exploded nationwide shows no signs of diminishing. It is, in fact, continuing to… https://www.jan-collins.com/flaneuse-ing-our-way-through-france/ https://www.jan-collins.com/flaneuse-ing-our-way-through-france/ Fri, 18 Aug 2017 00:00:00 GMT To be a “flâneur” in 19th-century Paris, first of all, one had to be male. From the French verb “flâner,” a “flâneur” was “one who wanders aimlessly.”… https://www.jan-collins.com/the-eagle-huntress-or-what-girls-actually-can-do/ https://www.jan-collins.com/the-eagle-huntress-or-what-girls-actually-can-do/ Fri, 21 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMT My two youngest granddaughters are six and eight years old. They are (ahem) smart, verbal, and athletic. By no means do they appear to believe boys are… https://www.jan-collins.com/frances-oldham-kelsey-nevertheless-she-persisted/ https://www.jan-collins.com/frances-oldham-kelsey-nevertheless-she-persisted/ Fri, 17 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMT Eight years ago, when I was touring New Zealand, I walked into a travel agency and was greeted politely by the middle-aged receptionist. With her short,… https://www.jan-collins.com/headaches-heartburn-and-womens-health/ https://www.jan-collins.com/headaches-heartburn-and-womens-health/ Fri, 20 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT In the 1950s and ’60s, when I was growing up, few women worked outside the home. In my high-school class, I had just one girlfriend whose mother was in… https://www.jan-collins.com/lobbying-for-climate-change-solutions/ https://www.jan-collins.com/lobbying-for-climate-change-solutions/ Fri, 16 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMT With a little more than two weeks left in the year, 2016 remains on track to be the hottest in our 136 years of modern data-keeping, according to NASA,… https://www.jan-collins.com/a-message-straight-from-the-heart/ https://www.jan-collins.com/a-message-straight-from-the-heart/ Fri, 18 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMT We recently observed national Domestic Violence Month, and, for a change, The Palmetto State received some (relatively) good news: We are no longer the… https://www.jan-collins.com/when-someone-shows-you-who-they-are/ https://www.jan-collins.com/when-someone-shows-you-who-they-are/ Fri, 21 Oct 2016 00:00:00 GMT Political analysts tell us next month’s presidential election will be decided by the women of America. This is fitting because if she is elected on… https://www.jan-collins.com/sexual-harassment-redux/ https://www.jan-collins.com/sexual-harassment-redux/ Fri, 16 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMT A quarter of a century seems like a long time. And yet, 25 years after the famous Anita Hill hearings that electrified the nation, the scourge of sexual… https://www.jan-collins.com/women-and-men-and-kids-tip-the-scales/ https://www.jan-collins.com/women-and-men-and-kids-tip-the-scales/ Fri, 15 Jul 2016 00:00:00 GMT If you like to watch old movies on cable TV or Netflix, you’ll probably notice how thin most of the actors are. Not painfully thin, just normally thin—the… https://www.jan-collins.com/the-joy-of-reading/ https://www.jan-collins.com/the-joy-of-reading/ Fri, 15 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT A month or two ago, a video made the rounds on social media showing a little girl sobbing her heart out when she learned from her grandmother that Barack… https://www.jan-collins.com/misogyny-and-sexism-coming-right-up/ https://www.jan-collins.com/misogyny-and-sexism-coming-right-up/ Fri, 15 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT If Hillary Clinton receives the Democratic Party nomination for president in 2016, brace yourself for misogyny and sexism galore. For ambitious women, it… https://www.jan-collins.com/friends-forever/ https://www.jan-collins.com/friends-forever/ Fri, 17 Apr 2015 00:00:00 GMT Our long-distance friendship began in the late 1950s when we were both schoolgirls in the elementary grades. Names and addresses of potential “pen pals”… https://www.jan-collins.com/wonder-woman-back-in-business/ https://www.jan-collins.com/wonder-woman-back-in-business/ Fri, 19 Dec 2014 00:00:00 GMT It’s less than a week ’til Christmas, but there is still time to rush around and buy a Wonder Woman doll or other Wonder Woman paraphernalia online or at… https://www.jan-collins.com/guns-and-abortion/ https://www.jan-collins.com/guns-and-abortion/ Fri, 19 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMT Southerners love their guns, and they are more likely to own firearms than folks living in other regions of the United States, according to a 2013 Gallup… https://www.jan-collins.com/well-behaved-women-seldom-make-history/ https://www.jan-collins.com/well-behaved-women-seldom-make-history/ Fri, 18 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT “History is written by the victors,” Winston Churchill once said. He also could have said that history is written mainly by men. This fact plays out in… https://www.jan-collins.com/all-the-big-jobs-are-up-for-grabs-in-the-palmetto-state/ https://www.jan-collins.com/all-the-big-jobs-are-up-for-grabs-in-the-palmetto-state/ Sat, 05 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMT Rock Hill, South Carolina GENTEEL and friendly is the image of South Carolina—until the political season rolls round. Then no holds are barred. This year,… https://www.jan-collins.com/breaking-the-silence/ https://www.jan-collins.com/breaking-the-silence/ Sat, 19 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMT Can a new campaign persuade the Pentagon to reconsider its attitude? LAVENA JOHNSON was a bright 19-year-old from Missouri who joined the army in 2005 to… https://www.jan-collins.com/gone-into-the-ether/ https://www.jan-collins.com/gone-into-the-ether/ Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT A huge theft of unencrypted data infuriates taxpayers Her hopes of joining a Romney administration now vanished, Nikki Haley, the Republican governor of… https://www.jan-collins.com/trappist-monks-rest-in-silence/ https://www.jan-collins.com/trappist-monks-rest-in-silence/ Thu, 21 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT A beautiful and profitable idea According to the ancient rule laid down by St. Benedict in the sixth century, monastic communities must be… https://www.jan-collins.com/hello-sunshine/ https://www.jan-collins.com/hello-sunshine/ Sat, 08 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT How not to sell a state that’s feeling the pinch IT’S a great day in South Carolina, and if you don’t believe it, ask Governor Nikki Haley. On September… https://www.jan-collins.com/aviation-and-the-south-advantage-dixie/ https://www.jan-collins.com/aviation-and-the-south-advantage-dixie/ Fri, 07 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT After carmakers, weak unions are attracting the aircraft business. In 1983, Nissan became the first foreign carmaker in America’s South when it opened an… https://www.jan-collins.com/thank-you-south-carolina/ https://www.jan-collins.com/thank-you-south-carolina/ Sat, 03 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT Thrills and Spills in the South The television comedian Jon Stewart has a recurring segment entitled “Thank you, South Carolina” on his popular “Daily… https://www.jan-collins.com/five-hundred-more-days-the-drive-to-replace-south-carolinas-governor-is-accelerating/ https://www.jan-collins.com/five-hundred-more-days-the-drive-to-replace-south-carolinas-governor-is-accelerating/ Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT Columbia, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford is a man alone these days. 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It has got rather used to it by now.… https://www.jan-collins.com/your-woman-or-your-rooster/ https://www.jan-collins.com/your-woman-or-your-rooster/ Thu, 28 Apr 2005 00:00:00 GMT Columbia, South Carolina A hard choice, it seems, for some South Carolina politicians South Carolina is a rather traditional, male-minded place, with a… https://www.jan-collins.com/a-voucher-scheme-brings-back-unwelcome-memories/ https://www.jan-collins.com/a-voucher-scheme-brings-back-unwelcome-memories/ Thu, 31 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT Columbia, South Carolina In 1984, Mark White, then governor of Texas, gave South Carolina’s Governor Richard Riley a pair of cowboy boots. Mr. Riley… https://www.jan-collins.com/yes-he-did-strom-thurmonds-daughter/ https://www.jan-collins.com/yes-he-did-strom-thurmonds-daughter/ Sat, 20 Dec 2003 00:00:00 GMT Columbia, South Carolina And all the laws did not prevent him It often happened in the segregated South a century or two ago: a powerful white man…