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New purpose for old building
11/20/2009 12:38 AM
When the Aiken County Public Library moved into the old Aiken Institute building on Chesterfield Street, only one portion of the structure was used to house the library. The north wing with its 17,000 square feet of space was left vacant.
Now th ...
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11/20/2009 12:38 AM
It seems to me that the No. 1 topic on nearly everyone's mind in my area of the world is the total destruction of our grandchildren's future that is being carried out by our elected officials in Washington, D.C., and in state capitals all across our ...
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11/20/2009 12:31 AM
Senator Graham and Congressional Democrats support a jobs-killing piece of legislation called Cap and Trade. The legislation is a road map for continued dependence on Arab countries which support radical Islamists bent on destroying Western countries ...
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11/20/2009 12:31 AM
I've been very disappointed in all of our elected representatives in Washington, but especially so for what's going on with health care reform.
These are my thoughts on health care reform, many of which I suspect are shared by millions of Amer ...
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11/20/2009 12:31 AM
Poor Ginny Allen, of all of the people I have met in Aiken involved in politics she has to be the most honest. Not only honest, but she is a worker, not a common trait in political circles. Many like the lime-light, few are willing to work.
I ...
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11/19/2009 12:38 AM
Wouldn't a Heisman Trophy look nice on the campus of Clemson University?
It would go well with the national championship hardware Clemson already has, and a strong case can be made for C.J. Spiller to win this year's honor as top college footbal ...
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11/19/2009 12:31 AM
Using experience from within one person's lifetime - i.e., on the scale of decades - forms no evidence for or against global climate change. The time scale for global changes are on the order of hundreds of years so any deviations happening within a ...
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11/19/2009 12:31 AM
Government health not a good move
A recent letter to the editor went to great lengths to malign the opponents of the current Health Care reform legislation and extol the government's role in managing entitlement programs. I find the author's log ...
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11/19/2009 12:30 AM
There have been letters to the editor recently suggesting we support the health care legislation that passed in Congress, citing hard economic times as a reason. I say we should not support it for that reason.
If it becomes law you will be force ...
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11/19/2009 12:30 AM
The issues that command our nation's attention - economic recovery, the war in Afghanistan, immigration, and health care reform - are critically important to all of us, so it's no surprise that they have elicited passionate debate and continue to dom ...
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11/18/2009 12:38 AM
Keeping students in school until high school graduation should be a top priority for South Carolina. Educators say it is. Lawmakers say it is. But putting teeth into that claim is missing.
In a state that lags behind many others in education ach ...
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11/18/2009 12:38 AM
Kudos to the faculty and students at Oakwood-Windsor Elementary School for their excellent program on Nov. 12 honoring our veterans. My great-granddaughter, Faith Marie Turner, insisted that I attend with her and I am so thankful that I did. Their pr ...
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11/18/2009 12:38 AM
New revolution taking shape
This may be a work of speculation, but it is most certainly a work of modern trends. However, as we watch in the bank of rocks and hills it certainly is relative.
A new revolution is taking shape at an alarming ...
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11/18/2009 12:31 AM
On Wednesday, Nov. 4, I was involved in an automobile accident. Many people came to help me and I want to say thank you.
First to reach me was a man whose name I did not get. He opened my door and told me not to move. He then took the car out of ...
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11/18/2009 12:30 AM
The Obama administration has chosen the wrong New York venue to try five co-conspirators in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States. Instead of a Manhattan courtroom less than a mile from the site of where the World Trade Center st ...
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11/17/2009 12:35 AM
1. It saddens me to read so many letters in the Standard on health care reform, in which the writers are comfortable in denying access to health care for the less fortunate among us. We are a mix of the well-off, the poor and all those in between. Th ...
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11/17/2009 12:34 AM
The war in Afghanistan, never far from our thoughts, is about to get even closer.
A number of Aiken-based Army reservists are being deployed to Afghanistan along with the 802nd Ordnance Company next month, part of a yearlong stint in the heart o ...
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11/17/2009 12:35 AM
More answers are needed in probe
Last week, the Aiken Standard reported that after a year-long SLED investigation, Ginny Allen will get off for her role in tampering with a primary election by placing fraudulent campaign robo calls with a mere l ...
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11/17/2009 12:32 AM
They killed a killer last week.
I kept waiting to feel something when news came that John Allen Muhammad had been executed in Virginia. As a staunch opponent of capital punishment, I wanted some nugget of remorse at the knowledge that the ...
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11/16/2009 12:34 AM
Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., struck a note for his fellow South Carolinians last week.
As the Edward Teller Lecture speaker, Rep. Clyburn told the audience at the event held in Augusta that if Yucca Mountain is removed as a site for permanent dispo ...
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11/16/2009 12:33 AM
Health insurance or prison?
On Saturday, Nov. 7, a bipartisan majority of the House of Representatives made history by passing H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act.
For the first time in my more than 50 years, my government ...
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11/16/2009 12:31 AM
Yes, the change of doors from metal to mahogany wood would seem like nothing to complain/bother with on the part of the design review board, but that's not the issue or heart of the matter. Mr Stevens knows full well the procedures he should follow ( ...
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11/16/2009 12:31 AM
I believe that health care improvement is required and that probably most people agree. But do we have to change everything or just what is broken and do it in a logical manner? First I would like to see a raise of hands of all representatives that v ...
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11/16/2009 12:30 AM
On Saturday, Nov. 7, a bipartisan majority of the House of Representatives made history by passing H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act.
For the first time in my over 50 years, my government has voted to imprison me if I choose ...
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11/16/2009 12:30 AM
Government and military officials have issued statements since last week's shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, that have nothing to do with the reality of what occurred, what is occurring and what our enemies would still like to have occur all over ...
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11/15/2009 12:34 AM
No one likes to feel as though they are abandoned. Yet, that is exactly how a local community group is viewing our federal government and its promise to permanently store high level nuclear waste.
The Savannah River Site Community Reuse Organiza ...
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11/15/2009 12:31 AM
Here I am doing my part! So please do yours and make the correct decision for the people in your state. South Carolina holds a lot of wealth and old money, but we also hold a lot of under privileged people that's been here with the rich folks a long ...
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11/15/2009 12:31 AM
For me, the hyped-up claims for the government's muddled health care proposals have a familiar ring. Before retiring, I enjoyed a career as a CPA, working primarily with health care organizations. I began assisting hospitals with their financial and ...
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11/15/2009 12:31 AM
As far as I am concerned, the best bagel service in town is right here at Atlanta Bread on Whiskey Road. For years, Annette has always given me prompt service with a smile. I just have to call ahead and she has my order ready. She is friendly, accomo ...
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11/15/2009 12:31 AM
Monthly musical opportunity
How many of you are aware of the Midday Concerts and Lunches at the First Presbyterian Church? Once a month, there is a free concert at the church with various musical presentations. On Nov. 12, a young pianist, Thoma ...
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11/15/2009 12:30 AM
Senator Graham's smiling face in Monday's Opinion's page was interesting, but empty. He claims that he is in favor of energy independence and goes on and on about how it would help South Carolina. My question to Sen. Graham is just what has he done a ...
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11/15/2009 12:34 AM
One of the few incontrovertible assertions once can reasonably make is that no one supports forced abortion.
Yet, coerced abortions, as well as involuntary sterilizations, are commonplace in China, Beijing's protestations notwithstanding. While ...
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