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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 2013
Page
13
Aiken Standard listing includes Publisher Scott B. Hunter Executive Editor Melissa Hanna Advertising Director Dee Taylor Business Manager Terri Cheek Circulation Manager Laura Friedman Classified Advertising Manager Letitia Jefferson Production Director Ronnie Butler.
A quotation from David Lloyd George, the English statesman born in 1863 and died in 1945. It asserts that delay or insufficient action leads toward disaster.
Editorial praises the Carolina Brotherhood 700 mile ride across North and South Carolina to honor fallen law enforcement. Thirty officers will pass through Aiken in Rogers’ memory with the route tied to where he worked. Proceeds aid families, with fundraisers and commemorative T shirts.
The editorial argues South Carolina’s private school choice plan, capped at 8 million dollars and lasting a year, is a limited step. It notes only about 800 of 730,000 students with disabilities could be helped, and critics warn the program may not yield meaningful reform or data. The piece urges cautious optimism while acknowledging concerns about budget, integration, and public funding impacts.
Leonard Pitts Jr argues the Post sale to Jeff Bezos signals a generational shift needing new business models to sustain watchdog journalism. He notes readers favor online access yet pay nothing, urging digital innovation to preserve reporting that informs democracy.
In letters and reminiscences, readers discuss public confidence in the news media, citing a Gallup poll ranking newspapers and TV news poorly and arguing for returning to core reporting. A second note honors H A Mac McClearen, praising his pioneering radiation protection work at Oak Ridge and Savannah River Plant shaping nuclear safety programs.
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