The dyspeptic Henry Adams was not nice but not wrong when he described what now is named the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, adjacent to the White House, as an “architectural infant asylum.” The granite pile, which once housed the State, War and Navy departments, was, Harry Truman said, “the greatest monstrosity in America.”
Category: South Carolina
South Carolina’s veterans nursing home bed shortage approaches 4,000
Charles and Elizabeth McCrary, both 88, pose for a photograph at the Stone Pavilion veterans’ nursing home in Columbia. A 30-year veteran of the U.S. Army, Charles McCrary began living at the home in May after a fall and continued poor health.
S.C. doctors continue prescribing addictive opioids in high numbers
South Carolina doctors are on track to prescribe more highly addictive Schedule II drugs in 2016 than they did last year, even as awareness surrounding the danger of opioid abuse grows. According to the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control, there were more than 2.6 million prescriptions filled for Schedule II controlled substance medications in South Carolina between January and June this year, for a total 169 million doses.