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WE APPRECIATE Columbia’s attempt to make a proposed special taxing district aimed at generating funding for improvements in North Columbia more palatable.
When states applied for Race to the Top funding, the federal Education Department made them adopt national Common Core standards, which force us to abdicate control over what our children learn to the federal government and special interests in Washington. A bill by state Sen. Mike Fair (S.604) would withdraw our state from those standards.
Watching the Syrian Army pummel the Syrian town of Homs to put down the rebellion there against the regime of President Bashar Assad is the remake of a really bad movie that starred Bashar’s father, Hafez, exactly 30 years ago this month. I know. I saw the original.
According to the National Science Foundation, 80 percent of all jobs created in the next decade will require math and science skills.
WHEN A Richland County citizen locked in a zoning battle with the county in the late 1980s over old cars kept on his property started video-taping their public meetings, some County Council members chafed at the notion.
I’m writing to address the glaring error that was published in Kathleen Parker’s Feb. 9 column, “Birth control redux.”
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I love the South; I love living here, having spent the first three decades of my life in North Carolina, and the past three decades here in South Carolina. I love the eccentricities, the warmth, the roll-up-your-sleeves-and-get-to-work ethic, and I love the way that most Southerners can embrace the positive aspects of their history, yet realize the need to mitigate some of the negative currents that have run through our legacy.
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WHEN A Richland County citizen locked in a zoning battle with the county in the late 1980s over old cars kept on his property started video-taping their public meetings, some County Council members chafed at the notion.
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IT’S EASY TO get so frustrated by all the things the Legislature is not accomplishing — or even trying to accomplish — that we fail to notice when it finally does something significant. That happened last month, when good-government advocates prevailed in a quarter-century effort to create an independent state inspector general with significant authority to not only root out the cliched “waste, fraud and abuse” but force state agencies to do things in a smarter way.
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THE NATION LOOKS to South Carolina every four years to see what we have to say about the presidential race. I look to the presidential race to see what it says about South Carolina, and this year’s picture wasn’t particularly flattering.
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The heartbreak of Whitney Houston’s death does not seem to be primarily a story of drug or alcohol abuse, as it is currently unfolding.
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A LAWSUIT filed in Camden might help clarify how hospitality taxes can be used, but ultimately the Legislature must make changes to address confusion and, more importantly, give cities and counties what they really need: more flexibility in what they can spend the money on.
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