By File/tony Kukulich/staff,From Our Post and Courier Readers

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Drivers, cyclists and pedestrians are routinely in competition, which often results in damage and injury. We witness wrong-way drivers on Coming and Rutledge every week. Proven traffic-calming measures such as two-way conversions may require residents south of Calhoun to leave earlier to get to Mount Pleasant or West Ashley. However, it will save lives, avoid accidents and improve the quality of life for residents by increasing walkability and decreasing noise and pollution. Additionally, residents south of Calhoun could gain a new way out of town with a northbound Rutledge Street.

ELIZABETH SOULE BRAINARD

Drones might help

The assassination of Charlie Kirk, along with other public officials at home and abroad, accentuates a sobering truth: Those who speak in public are increasingly at risk.

Traditional security usually focuses on the crowd, but as these attacks have revealed, danger also can come from a distant vantage point well outside of the immediate event.

Surveillance drones may offer a modest but meaningful safeguard. By scanning rooftops and perimeters in real time, drones could provide security teams early warning of unusual activity — or at least make it more difficult for an attacker to operate unnoticed.

Drones aren’t a panacea. They raise questions of cost, privacy and oversight. But when a single shot can change the course of a life — or even a nation — it’s worth asking whether technology can responsibly help protect the places where Americans of every belief and party gather to speak, listen and agree or disagree.

IRA BERENDT

Watercolor-like photo

While we were having our morning coffee Thursday, my wife and I were both immediately drawn to Andrew Whitaker’s front-page photograph taken at Bowens Island Restaurant in 2021.