Local Givers Show Big Hearts In Aiken County Holidays
Editorial highlights generous acts in Aiken County as residents donate toys for Toys for Tots gifts for families and support several charities. SRS workers raised over 13 000 toys, teams partner with Salvation Army, and Savannah River Nuclear Solutions pledges 450 000 to three charities over three years.
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Salvation Army
SRS
Aiken
Mended Hearts Aiken
Aiken Technical College Foundation
UPS
New Beginnings Church
Beech Island
Tri-Development
Aiken County Association For Special Needs Citizens
Aiken Sertoma Club
Cedar Creek Church
Windham House
Savannah River Nuclear Solutions
Paine College
Augusta State Hall College of Business
CSRA
Wounded Warrior Care Project
McConnell Voices Tax Bill Backers After Broad Senate Vote
Senate action clears a tax measure with wide support after an uneasy White House bipartisan push. The plan would raise income taxes for millions, centralizing debate about spending and investment freedom for Americans.
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Senate
Mitch McConnell
White House
Publisher and Editors List for Aiken Standard Staff
The release lists Scott B. Hunter as Publisher and Editor Scott B. Hunter and Timothy E. O Briant as Executive Editor and Tobriant as Executive Editor with multiple staff roles including Production Director Phillip Yates Circulation Director Scot Newcom and Business Manager Terri Cheek and Managing Editor Michael W Gibbons with names listed alongside email-like addresses for various departments.
Cure or care which costs less in curing major diseases
Column argues it is cheaper to pursue cures for cancer Alzheimer s and diabetes than to fund care through programs like Obamacare. It cites policy leadership, incentives for research, and a moon shot style bid to unite politics and medicine toward medical cures.
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James Pinkerton
Seriousmedicinestrategy-Org
Food and Drug Administration
Pharma
Europe
Asia
America
Cal Thomas
Tmseditors
Tribune.com
Cyclists Ride to Start of Clermont Horrible Hundred
In Clermont Florida more than 2000 cyclists joined the Horrible Hundred ride. Harry Nickell and three friends chose to bike to the start area rather than drive, traveling in an 8 foot wide formation.
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Clermont
Fla
Harry Nickell
Route drama as car strikes cyclists in bike lane
Witness recounts a motorist veering into a designated bike lane and striking four cyclists, leaving Nickell, a 53 year old triathlete and father, dead. The writer condemns drivers for impatience and calls the death senseless and avoidable, urging cautious sharing of roads.
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Nickell
Earmarks undermine budgets and fuel waste in Congress
Henry Franz Aiken argues that earmarks inflate spending, riding piggyback on bills to win reluctant votes. He cites health care reform and Sen Lindsey Graham's Charleston harbor dredging as poor examples and calls for a New Year vow to end earmarks and curb excesses.
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Lindsey Graham
Charleston Harbor
United States
Congress
Henry Franz Aiken
Let the Bush era tax cuts expire
A citizen letter urges President Obama to stand firm against extending tax cuts for the wealthy, arguing the 10 year period produced no net jobs. The writer chastises compromise and calls for expiration to support middle class Americans and back the president in 2012.
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Illinois
America
Bush
Clinton
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