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Editorial
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Editorial
COLUMBIA City Council has little alternative but to make changes to control costs in its health-care program for employees and retirees.
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IF COLUMBIA and Richland County officials aren’t careful, their already-strained relationship could take a sharp turn for the worse.
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IF YOU’RE shocked at the assertion by some that Columbia’s Drew Wellness Center is “losing” hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, then you’ll be totally aghast at the millions being lost in the operation of the fire and police departments.
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Through 11 presidential elections, beginning with the Democrats’ nomination of George McGovern in 1972, Republicans have enjoyed a presumption of superiority regarding national security. This year, however, events and their rhetoric are dissipating their advantage.
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Most Americans can hardly believe we’re having a national debate about birth control in the 21st century — more than 50 years after The Pill became available and decades after condoms became as commonplace as, well, balloons.
Even if you agree with Jerry Emanuel that all of the Republican candidates are duds (“Romney, Gingrich both are losers,” Feb. 3), the choice of the S.C. Republican voters still should have been easy. The majority who aided Gingrich’s victory in the Palmetto State should have followed Gov. Nikki Haley’s endorsement of Mitt Romney. By voting for Gingrich, they put at risk the streak (since 1980) of S.C. Republicans voting for the eventual candidate to represent their party in the general election. Gingrich, a native of Georgia, has more appeal in the South. Unfortunately for him, the South is only a small segment of America.
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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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IF COLUMBIA and Richland County officials aren’t careful, their already-strained relationship could take a sharp turn for the worse.
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THERE’S BEEN a tremendous amount of political energy expended — on both sides — over provocative proposals to make laid-off workers pass drug tests and do volunteer work, and even over more measured plans to further limit who can receive unemployment benefits and how much they receive.
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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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Each year the state Department of Social Services receives about 27,000 abuse and neglect reports concerning children. Last year, it determined that 4,500 of those children needed to be placed in foster care.
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THE BUDGET AND Control Board is a uniquely South Carolina institution built on the assumption that all wisdom resides in the Legislature and designed — like most of the government, only more so — to ensure that governors could not govern.
