State must ensure trauma system remains viable
IF YOU OR A LOVED one were to be severely injured in a devastating automobile crash, you would hope and pray that every available means would be employed to ensure a full recovery. And you might think such heroic efforts are a right, available to all.
WARREN BOLTON
Eau Claire residents don’t consider bus barn an asset to community
IT HAS ALWAYS been difficult for governments to find homes for landfills, sewer plants and jails without riling nearby residents. Columbia is learning the same goes for a new bus maintenance facility and headquarters. “Everybody’s got to have it, but nobody wants it in their backyard,” said Transit Authority chairman Butch Spires. (
By WARREN BOLTON,
Associate Editor,
02/19/2004 03:01 AM EST)
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Thursday’s Letters to the Editor
GOP presidents can’t handle economy I am 82 years old and have voted in and lived through many presidential elections. My first vote was proudly cast for FDR. (
02/19/2004 03:01 AM EST)
Black service, on both sides, in the Civil War
On March 30, 1865, John W. Riley, the Confederate adjutant general in Richmond, Va., gave Capt. Edward Bostick of the 26th South Carolina Volunteers these orders: “You are authorized to raise a battalion of four companies of Negro troops in the state of South Carolina. You are allowed sixty days to raise the battalion.” (
By JACKIE R. BOOKER,
Guest columnist,
02/19/2004 03:01 AM EST)
Good ideas brought Kerry, Edwards to the fore
It is no accident that the two Democrats who have done the best in the presidential primaries happen to be the two Democrats who have put the best ideas of the season on the table. (
By THOMAS OLIPHANT,
BOSTON GLOBE,
02/19/2004 03:01 AM EST)
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