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Wednesday, July 13 | Upstate South Carolina News, Sports and
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Opinion
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(Roger Harvell)
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Opinion
Decline
must be reversed
Few South
Carolinians awoke Tuesday morning to the news of this state's
loss of the highly coveted AAA credit rating and went into a
panic. The news seemingly has little application to the lives
of ordinary people.
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Opinion
Chance
to learn
Mention Social Security
reform, and just about everyone has an opinion on what should
be done.
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Opinion
Vote
for incorporation and keep Taylors a special
place
The Taylors area has always
been a special place to live. Take it from someone that has
lived all his life in Taylors, worked in Taylors, and for a
good part of my adult life was a public servant to the people
of this area.
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Opinion
July
13, 2005
Reader's letters address
failed theater merger, respecting others' beliefs, vaccine
safety and Greenville's recreation needs.
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GUEST COLUMNISTS
By Bryan Altier: Vote
for incorporation and keep Taylors a special place
(07/13/05)
By Debra Hernandez: Summer's
the time to appreciate our coasts and oceans
(07/12/05)
By Michael Cheatham: Incorporation
not the answer for Taylors residents (07/11/05)
By
Edwin Leap: Arguments
over creation don't advance God's message of love
(07/10/05)
By Roger Owens: Minority
rights hinge on high court appointee (07/9/05)
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PREVIOUSLY
Decline
must be reversed
Few South Carolinians
awoke Tuesday morning to the news of this state's loss of the highly
coveted AAA credit rating and went into a panic. The news seemingly
has little application to the lives of ordinary people. Such credit
ratings influence what state or local governments pay when they
issue bonds to pay for capital improvements.
(07/13/05)
Chance
to learn
Mention Social Security reform,
and just about everyone has an opinion on what should be done. Some
people love the idea of private accounts; others think the system
can be returned to financial stability to taxing rich people more;
still others shrug off any concern about the system's solvency
because they are sure there's a box somewhere near Washington that
has all of the money they have paid into Social Security through
payroll taxes. (07/13/05)
Vote
for incorporation and keep Taylors a special place
The Taylors area has always been a special place to
live. Take it from someone that has lived all his life in Taylors,
worked in Taylors, and for a good part of my adult life was a public
servant to the people of this area. It is a great place with some
very special residents.
(07/13/05)
July
13, 2005
Reader's letters address failed
theater merger, respecting others' beliefs, vaccine safety and
Greenville's recreation needs.
(07/13/05)
Distressing
end for admired life
Care of the elderly
with a degenerative disorder is not a high priority for public
program spending in South Carolina. So, a recent Camden case cries
out for greater public understanding and support of church and
charitable programs for families with a member suffering from
dementia and Alzheimer's.
(07/12/05)
Nurturing
leaders
Those who fear South Carolina
has a dearth of leadership can take heart in the Liberty Fellowship,
an elite leadership program founded by Greenville business executive
Hayne Hipp. The new class of 20 was named last week for this
two-year program designed to develop public and private leaders in
our state. (07/12/05)
Summer's
the time to appreciate our coasts and oceans
As South Carolinians enjoy our beautiful beaches this
summer vacation season, the traffic and avoiding a painful sunburn
may be their most serious coastal concerns.
(07/12/05)
July
12, 2005
Readers' letters address good
Samaritans, Iraq war, alternative fuel, retirement system and
Clarence Page column.
(07/12/05)
Lawmakers
on the edge
The appearance of possible
conflicts of interest created by lawyers who serve in the
Legislature isn't as sweeping as it was 30 years ago when 30 of 46
state senators and 44 of 124 House members were attorneys. Thus,
fewer lawyer-legislators now than then plead cases for clients
before judges they help put on the bench and before state agency
boards they help create.
(07/11/05)
Merger
scrapped
A planned merger of the
innovative Warehouse Theatre and the much-larger Peace Center has
failed. The Warehouse's board couldn't garner the required
two-thirds vote of the theater's membership to approve the
merger. (07/11/05)
Incorporation
not the answer for Taylors residents
On
July 19, the residents of the Taylors Fire and Sewer District will
vote to decide if they want to become a city. Organizers of the
"Incorporate Taylors" effort fear that recent annexations erode the
tax base of the district, thus causing residents to make up the
shortfall in taxes. Their solution is to incorporate, but the
solution to incorporate is misguided.
(07/11/05)
July
11, 2005
Readers' letters address Pres.
Bush's legacy, answers to life's mysteries, parents' involvement in
schools and homeland security.
(07/11/05)
Bought:
old school buses
The purchase of
cast-off school buses is a sign of South Carolina's underfunded
school-bus system. (07/10/05)
Arguments
over creation don't advance God's message of love
Jesus brought people to him through his actions and
relatively few words, not through shouting.
(07/10/05)
July
10, 2005
A good judge resists political
pressure; Complexity of life supports creation; GOP is the party
doing the raiding; Good Samaritans found in Greenville (07/10/05)
Terribly
weak fire-safety law
Tragic hotel blaze
brings little change.
(07/10/05)
The
city gains animal control
Sheltering
animals will remain under the Humane Society, but the city is right
to take over animal control.
(07/9/05)
Thumbs
Up, Thumbs Down
GSO brings back July
Fourth concert; tourists love our state
(07/9/05)
Minority
rights hinge on high court appointee
We
have come too close to fulfilling the promise of equality to allow
the clock to be turned back.
(07/9/05)
July
9, 2005
Readers' letters: Flags
inadvertently were desecrated; Same-sex couples denied their rights;
No compassion in Bush's budget cuts; Private accounts not Social
Security fix (07/9/05)
War
on terror far from over
As leaders of
the world's industrialized nations were meeting to find ways to
eliminate poverty in Africa and clean up the world's environment,
terrorists who move in the shadows of the civilized world attacked
innocent citizens in the heart of London. Four explosions have taken
a terrible toll on the British people, killing dozens and wounding
more than 700. By late Thursday, British officials were certain the
barbaric, well-coordinated blasts had the hallmark of an al-Qaida
attack. (07/8/05)
Biotech
research
One of the state's most
promising industries will get a healthy shot in the arm, thanks to a
$9 million grant to be used by five universities for biotechnology
research. That grant from the National Science Foundation will be
matched by $4.5 million in non-federal funding, some of it from the
state, for a total of $13.5 million.
(07/8/05)
Let's
hope for a new justice in the mold of Sandra O'Connor
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor will be remembered in
judicial terms as a "swinger." In judicial terms, that's not such a
bad thing. (07/8/05)
Sanford
shows us meaning of accomplishment
Some
legislators in Columbia declared upon the end of the recent session
that Gov. Mark Sanford achieved a very short list of
accomplishments. They instructed the governor to learn to compromise
and work with the Legislature in order to achieve his goals in
Columbia. Some warned him that time is running out and some even
labeled him irrelevant.
(07/8/05)
Lawmakers
right to ensure the quality of contact lenses
On June 14, both the House of Representatives and the
Senate voted to override Gov. Sanford's veto of H 3250, a bill that
limits the sale of contact lenses in South Carolina. Thanks to the
foresight of many people, it will be much more difficult for
unlicensed retailers to endanger the health and welfare of South
Carolina citizens. (07/8/05)
July
8, 2005
Readers' letters address traffic
enforcement, rewarding wrong, flag burning, political vandalism and
white-collar crime.
(07/8/05)
President
Bush has his chance
Supreme Court
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's surprise announcement that she is
retiring has set off a firestorm of debate about her replacement.
She was often the swing vote on a divided court that has
increasingly extended constitutional rights into areas once
considered the domain of elected governing bodies. (07/7/05)
Now
comes the test
The filibuster agreement
signed by seven Republicans, including South Carolina's Lindsey
Graham, and seven Democrats is about to be put to a real test.
Democrats had abused the filibuster to block many of the president's
federal appeals court nominees. In exchange for not using the
"nuclear option" -- in which the majority Republicans would vote
that Senate rules only required a simple majority on court nominees
-- the Democrats gave several judicial nominees an up-or-down vote
and said they wouldn't participate in another filibuster except in
extraordinary circumstances.
(07/7/05)
Posting
Ten Commandments could change minds, hearts
Confusion still abounds over a clear understanding of
the place of religion in public life. This has been made abundantly
clear by a recent guest editorial by Eric Graben. While Mr. Graben's
comments were well thought out and well presented, I believe they
miss the mark concerning the real issues surrounding the public
posting of the Ten Commandments.
(07/7/05)
July
7, 2005
Readers' letters address
downtown parking, Michelin's racing decision, columnist's opinion
and Supreme Court decision.
(07/7/05)
The
timing isn't right for Gonzales court nomination
While he would make an excellent justice, Bush may
want someone else right now.
(07/7/05)
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 Beth Padgett
Greenville News editorial page
editor
 Paul Hyde
Greenville News editorial page
associate editor
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