South Carolina General Assembly Faces Budget Crisis
Aiken County delegates return to Columbia amid a $350 million shortfall and $155 million debt, with heavy focus on budget cuts and revenue-neutral plans. Leaders push for education funding protection and tort reform while noting economy signs and shifts in state spending.
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Columbia
Tommy Moore
D. Clearwater
Senate
House of Representatives
Moore
Jim Stewart
R-Aiken
Stewart
Aiken
Stewart Builders
Palmetto
James Roland Smith
Warrenville
Aiken County
House
Ways and Means
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Sanford and lawmakers begin on better terms in session
Gov. Mark Sanford starts the new legislative session with praise from lawmakers for early talks with leadership and a realistic executive spending plan. GOP leaders note his direct engagement contrasts with former Gov Hodges and aims to ease a rocky relationshi p.
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Mark Sanford
Sanford
House
State House
Jim Hodges
Senate
Hugh Leatherman
Hodges
General Assembly
Florence
Kroger plans two facade options for new 70000 sq ft store
Kroger will present two design concepts for a 70,000 square foot Kroger at Heritage Square Shopping Center with a choice of brick or brick and stucco facades facing Pine Log Road. Council to decide material, then Kroger moves ahead for a 2005 opening after Blanchard and Calhoun clears the existing Dillard site.
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Kroger
Heritage Square
Pine Log Road
Aiken
Roger LeDuc
Hitchcock Plaza
Aiken Electric Cooperative
Seeing Mars Through Nine Eyes on Spirit Rover
The Spirit rover uses nine cameras to explore Mars. Six navigation cameras and three for science enable autonomous travel and experiments with Earth support. Two panoramic color cameras read the sun for bearings while two navigation cameras map routes in 3-D.
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Spirit Rover
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Red Planet
Earthlings' spirits uplifted by rover Spirit
In Pasadena California readers glimpse Mars through NASA rover Spirit. The six wheeled explorer reveals a rust red landscape with rocks wind formed ridges and a distant mesa under a pink sky. Courtney Dress ing a Virginia teen aids scientists highlighting shared wonder between Earth and Mars.
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Calif
Earth
Space
Spirit
Mars
Mojave Desert
Courtney Dressing
Virginia
Art Thomp
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