By Jay Williams, Jr. and Charles W. Waring III    Note:  Below is the full transcript of our Dec. 12 interview and the email responses to the questions that we did not have time to ask.      Q: Let’s start with addressing flooding, which remains a top priority for your administration. We recently signed an agreement with the Army Corps for the preconstruction, engineering and design (PED) phase of the Charleston Peninsula Project. You seem to support extending the Low Battery wall west and...

By Jay Williams, Jr. and Charles W. Waring III    Note:  The responses below are edited for reasons of space and clarity. Please see the link here for the full transcript of our Dec. 12 interview and the email responses to the questions that we did not have time to ask in person.     One immediately gathers that the momentum for progress and solutions is palpable to all who enter the chief executive’s office at Meeting and Broad. Reigning over his efficiently run corner office suite, Mayor...

By Ford Walpole    Robert (Bob) Fraser reflects on the birth of the Southeastern Wildlife Exposition (SEWE), noting that Dicky Trotter was among the early organizers of the event. “Dicky was a businessman and a visionary. He had been to the Waterfowl Festival in Easton, Maryland, and he believed we could start a similar event here. He reached out to Van Smith, Dick Coen and me because of our knowledge of duck decoys. Our contribution to SEWE was helping recruit carvers, dealers and an auction...