Notable quotes span crime probes to politics and tragedy
A compilation of opinions covers an investigation into sexual and drug allegations at Allendale prison, upgrades for Charleston Air Force Base, teacher retention, campaign fundraising for 2002, reactions to Hodges Condon clashes, and local responses to race riots, crime, energy deregulation, and wildlife nesting site closures.
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Department of Corrections
Charles Condon
Allendale
Local Newspaper Staff Listings From Aiken Standard
The Aiken Standard lists staff and management: Scott B. Hunter and Jeffrey B. Wallace as Advertistirector, Art Zappa as Business Manager, Ellen C. Priest as Circulation Director, Garth R. Groshand and Timothy E. O Briant as Pressroom Supervisor, James R. Bennett Jr. and J. David Boyd among others.
Public meetings urged openness in Aiken government
Dozens attended Aiken Planning Commission and County Council gatherings to discuss the hotel and conference center at Hunter's Glen and fire services for Sage Mill Industrial Park. The piece condemns secret sessions and urges open government under the South Carolina FOI Act.
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Aiken
South Carolina
Columbia
FOI
Aiken County Council
GVW
Sage Mill
Praise for a Pentecostal minister and his book burning
A reader defends a young Pentecostal minister who organized a church book burning. The letter argues the act defended against ungodly literature and cites biblical verses to justify burning pornographic and occult books. The writer urges parents to monitor their children and says pleasing God outweighs man’s opinion.
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God
Aiken Standard Seeks Brief Letters to the Editor
The Aiken Standard invites readers to submit letters to the editor. Include the writer's signature, mailing address, and daytime and home telephone numbers for verification. All letters may be edited or condensed.
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Aiken Standard
P.O
Aiken
S.C
Swallace
Aikenstandard.com
Bush dredging EPA plan sparks partisan clash over Hudson PCB cleanup
The Bush administration orders GE to pay nearly 500 million to dredge PCBs from the Hudson River, a plan critics call junk science and harmful to habitats, jobs, and local economies while supporters praise the environmental aim and EPA leadership. Local activists CEASE urge opposition, arguing health risk is low and shoreline damage extensive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bush
New York Times
Hillary Clinton
Sierra Club
al Gore
EPA
Environmental Protection Agency
General Electric Co
New York
Hudson River
Clinton-Gore
Chris Ballantyne
The
Times
Christie Todd Whitman
Sen. Clinton
Hudson
CEASE
Citizen Environmentalists Against
Tury
Tim Havens
Bush Administration
Havens
Whitman
George Pataki
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Scott B. Hunter
Jeffrey B. Wallace
Art Zappa
Ellen C. Priest
Garth R. Groshand
Timothy E. O’briant
James R. Bennett Jr
J. David Boyd
Michelle Malkin
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