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Wednesday letters: Electorate has become polarized
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Wednesday letters: Obama about to mess up in Syria
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Wednesday letters: We need new blood in D.C.
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Wednesday letters: America very charitable
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Shelly: Where’s Plan A for preventing teen pregnancies?
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Samuelson: Is the wealth effect that once boosted the economy dead?
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Scoppe: What Rainey v. Haley tells us about ethics reform
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Bolton: Dedication of BTW auditorium sparks revival
THE DEDICATION of the renovated Booker T. Washington High School auditorium last week quickly transformed into a revival, as one person after another thanked God for preserving the last remaining building of the storied institution that educated...
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Mason: Nickelodeon adding to downtown rebirth
In the early 1980s, Providence, R.I., was littered with vacant buildings, crime was high, and students at the local universities were told to not stray off campus. Then AS220 opened as an unjuried and uncensored art space.
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OPINION COLUMNS
Krugman: It’s not urgent for US to deal with future fiscal issues
Last week the International Monetary Fund, whose normal role is that of stern disciplinarian to spendthrift governments, gave the United States some unusual advice.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Tuesday letters: Tax increase on groceries unfair
Many citizens have recently experienced an increase in the sales tax on groceries and nutritional necessities because of the new transportation sales tax in Richland County. The demand for these items is largely inelastic, and purchases cannot be significantly lessened. This is burdensome on many...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Tuesday letters: Hacking exposes us for many years
In October 2012, I received a phone call from a man with a slight foreign accent claiming to be from my insurance company and asking for my date of birth. I told him that if he was from my insurance company he would know the answer to that question. He told me they needed to verify that I was actually...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Tuesday letters: Religion, science should embrace
Earth spins about 1,000 miles an hour as it orbits its yearly path around the sun at approximately 66,000 miles an hour — well over 1 million miles a day.
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OPINION COLUMNS
McManus: Head-in-the-sand Congress
Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., a former chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, is hopping mad. Sensenbrenner considers himself the father of the Patriot Act, the 2001 law that gave the federal government new powers to investigate potential terrorists. But he thinks the National Security Agency...
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OPINION EXTRA
Glaeser: Common Core offers a useful test, not the bogeyman critics fear
A cadre of critics — from conservative broadcaster Glenn Beck to Diane Ravitch, a newly prominent defender of traditional public education — are sounding the alarm about the Common Core, a new set of standards that will lead to national standardized English and math tests for K-12 ...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Monday letters: Don’t neglect important issues
Satan, as represented by John Milton’s Paradise Lost, sums up his new job description: “To do aught good will never be our task, But ever to do ill shall be our sole delight, As being contrary to his high will Whom we resist. If then his providence Out of our evil seek to bring forth...
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Monday letters: What’s the truth in Ninety Six?
It is sad that Catherine Templeton, the director of the Department of Health and Environmental Control, is defending her department rather than addressing the confusion that attends to the recent tuberculosis outbreak in Ninety Six.









