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Dowd: Taxing times for Obama
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Tuesday letters: Sanford, Clinton very different
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Tuesday letters: Elderly, disabled not treated well
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Tuesday letters: Democrats are ranting, raging
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Rubin: The real scandal of Benghazi
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Krauthammer: Redacted truth, subjunctive rage
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Monday letters: Bush presidency tragic for U.S.
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McClatchy cartoons for the week of 5/19/13
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Scoppe: Don’t delay finishing off Budget and Control Board
Since the House and Senate both have passed legislation to abolish the hermaphroditic Budget and Control Board, you’d think they could mark that off their to-do list. You’d be wrong.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Monday letters: S.C. must recruit, hire top leaders
A better jobs outlook in South Carolina requires better leadership outreach beyond South Carolina. Too often, the discussion of jobs and economic growth turns to native skills and frontline hiring issues alone –– manufacturing, customer service, hospitality and hands-on craftsmanship...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Monday letters: We need truth about Benghazi
The fact that the woman who wants to be our next president royally screwed up by not providing adequate protection for our people in Benghazi is a big story. Add to that the fact that no help was sent to rescue our people during the attack, and then a coverup was begun by President Obama and Secretary...
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OPINION COLUMNS
Samuelson: The $642 billion federal budget excuse
In any other time and place, $642 billion would qualify as a lot of money. But in the Washington of 2013, it has been reduced to pocket change. When the Congressional Budget Office announced that it has cut its projected 2013 federal deficit to $642 billion — compared with 2012’s deficit...
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CINDI SCOPPE
Scoppe: Ethics reform: At a crossroads
A YEAR AFTER political scandals launched a cluster of competing study panels and catapulted ethics reform to the top of the 2012 campaign agenda, the Legislature has reached a critical crossroads. What happens in the Senate will determine how strong we can hope our new...
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CINDI SCOPPE
Want to know, do more about ethics reform?
There won’t be a new ethics law this year unless the Senate finishes debate on the budget and agrees to debate the ethics bill. So the most important thing you can do is to let your senator know that going home without a bill is unacceptable; also, explain what you think the bill should include...
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CINDI SCOPPE
Odds, ends and extras in the ethics bills
People who lobby the Legislature must register with the state, and they’re barred from giving gifts or campaign donations to public officials and serving on state governing boards. There also are limits on the lobbyists’ employers.
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CINDI SCOPPE
Why ethics reform now?
Demands for ethics reform coalesced amidst a string of ethics scandals, a study that tied the scandals to flaws in our laws and the first election after a federal judge threw out a key component of our campaign reporting law:
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OPINION EXTRA
Sanchez: Responsibility for Asian sweatshop safety lies with us, too
Another apparel factory has collapsed in a poor Asian country, killing three workers, and I fear I'm partly to blame.
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EDITORIALS
Editorial: Richland County’s unaccountable elections board’s days should be numbered
WHY DOES the Richland County Board of Elections and Voter Registration as we know it even exist?
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OPINION COLUMNS
Milbank: Obama asleep at the wheel
President Passerby needs urgently to become a participant in his presidency.
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