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BBQ Barn opens location near USCA
11/20/2009 9:36 PM
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Insulation business to begin work Dec. 3
11/20/2009 9:36 PM
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Officials meet to discuss parks at NERP workshop
11/20/2009 9:37 PM
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Whiskey Road project still a go, with modifications
11/20/2009 9:35 PM
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Local News in Brief for Nov. 21
11/20/2009 9:24 PM
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Man held in Warrenville murder
11/20/2009 9:04 PM
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Salvation Army begins drive
11/20/2009 9:04 PM
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Sheriff Hunt is named Clearwater fire chief
11/20/2009 9:04 PM
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Aiken High inducts students into National Technical Honor Society
11/20/2009 5:26 PM
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Police nab final Aiken drive-by suspect
11/20/2009 5:26 PM
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Woman knits 200 caps for charity
11/20/2009 5:26 PM
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ACSO investigating suspicious death
11/20/2009 8:21 AM
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Unprofessional behavior plagues SRS
11/19/2009 5:24 PM
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Atlantic keeps families in touch
11/19/2009 5:24 PM
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Commission shoots down zoning for 'sporting park'
11/19/2009 5:25 PM
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Aiken-raised author brings up topic of race
11/19/2009 4:26 PM
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National parks delegates meeting in Aiken
11/19/2009 4:26 PM
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Havoc comes to enchanted land in educator's 22nd production
11/19/2009 4:26 PM
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Columnist offers CSRA read
11/19/2009 3:45 PM
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Course teaches officers how to better detect drunken drivers
11/19/2009 4:27 PM
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Couple to sign books on South
11/19/2009 3:45 PM
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Horse clinic to address shots, saddles, more
11/19/2009 3:44 PM
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Seniors get crash course in politics
11/19/2009 3:44 PM
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N.A. officer arrested, suspended
11/18/2009 6:27 PM
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SPCA brings Santa in for pet pictures
11/18/2009 9:39 PM
Cooperation brings jobs
11/3/2009 12:35 AM
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Cooperation can exist in a politically charged arena if something important is perceived to be on the line.
Such was the case last week when the Legislature met in special session and approved of concessions that allowed airplane giant Boeing to announce South Carolina as the destination of a new airline assembly facility.
Without that being the main topic of conversation (the Legislature convened to help get additional weeks of benefits for jobless South Carolinians) lawmakers had no problem speeding the concessions through both houses and onto the governor's desk.
And Gov. Mark Sanford, on the hot seat since his Argentinian indiscretion of June, signed the bill that cemented the Boeing deal for the state.
With faltering employment a significant issue, the House, the Senate and the governor found they could work together to the benefit of the state - not to the benefit of individual political players.
If they can do this with something as important as several thousand new jobs for the state, imagine what they could do if they put their heads and hearts together for something as significant as the education of hundreds of thousands of South Carolina children - the future economic engine of the state.
11/3/2009 12:35 AM
2 comment(s) on this story E-mail this story to a friendCooperation can exist in a politically charged arena if something important is perceived to be on the line.
Such was the case last week when the Legislature met in special session and approved of concessions that allowed airplane giant Boeing to announce South Carolina as the destination of a new airline assembly facility.
Without that being the main topic of conversation (the Legislature convened to help get additional weeks of benefits for jobless South Carolinians) lawmakers had no problem speeding the concessions through both houses and onto the governor's desk.
And Gov. Mark Sanford, on the hot seat since his Argentinian indiscretion of June, signed the bill that cemented the Boeing deal for the state.
With faltering employment a significant issue, the House, the Senate and the governor found they could work together to the benefit of the state - not to the benefit of individual political players.
If they can do this with something as important as several thousand new jobs for the state, imagine what they could do if they put their heads and hearts together for something as significant as the education of hundreds of thousands of South Carolina children - the future economic engine of the state.
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2 comment(s) on this storySanford : 11/6/2009
Case in point; in early 2009, Sanford signs into law new and much stricter DUI legislation. The talk around town is we needed more 'infidelity' legislation due to the increasing number of adulterous/deadbeat parents. BE AWARE, he doesn't even look trustworthy in photos.
: 11/3/2009
An excellent article!
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