Aiken Stanndam Founded in 1867
Ellen Priest, publisher. Tim O Briant, audience development director. Melissa Hanna, executive editor. Dee Taylor, advertising director. Laura Tiedman, circulation manager. Jeromy Way, business manager. Letitia Jefferson, customer service manager. Ronnie Butler, production director. Think about it quote from Horace Walpole.
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Tim O’briant
Melissa Hanna
Dee Taylor
Laura Tiedman
Letitia Jefferson
Ronnie Butler
Open government reform faces uncertain fate in South Carolina
Editorial urges moving forward on transparency as House bills H.3613 and H.3641 seek stronger open records rules. It notes a slow legislative path since 2011, highlights aims to raise FOI fines, shorten response times, and require email disclosures, with emphasis on administrative law court reviews.
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S.C. House
Bill Taylor
R-Aiken
General Assembly
Taylor
S.C. Press Association
Columbia
House
S.C. Senate
Senate
S.C
Judiciary Committee
Administrative Law Court
Aiken Standard
Aiken
The dark side of the fight against terrorism
The article discusses the 6,000 page Senate Intelligence Committee report on Bush era detention and interrogation practices, the CIA response, and calls for full public release. It notes waterboarding, black sites, and memos used to justify torture, urging Obama to disclose the report with only sources and methods redacted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate Intelligence Committee
George W. Bush
Obama
CIA
Inspector General
Bush Administration
al-Qaida
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed
Abu Zubaydah
Intelligence Committee
Dick Cheney
USS
Osama bin Laden
Saxby Chambliss
Georgia
Dianne Feinstein
Dcalif
South Carolina Residents Pay for Nuclear Waste Fund Without Benefit
A DC Circuit Court ruling presses the Energy Department to justify the Nuclear Waste Fund fees paid by ratepayers since 1983. The fund, now over 17 billion collected with a 1.3 billion annual interest, faces a 2 trillion to 4.9 trillion final balance range deemed useless. The case cites Yucca Mountain shelving and notes SC stores about 3,800 metric tons of spent fuel at four sites, while public officials demand a permanent repository.
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Congress
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
District of Columbia
Department of Energy
Energy Department
Laurence H. Silberman
Reagan
Tee
Chicago
Stern
Secretary of Energy
Ernest Moniz
Vogtle
V.C
Savannah River
Georgia
Obama
Yucca Mountain
South Carolina
Aiken County
Washington
United States
David Wright
Public Service
America
Minnesota
Joe Atkins
Nuclear Waste Fund
Letter to the Editor on global warming commentary
A reader disputes the global warming narrative noting colder spells and regional patterns. They cite long-standing local weather experience, Antarctic ship ice, and school closures while criticizing media framing and predictive models.
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Harold
Arctic
Lake
Michigan
Antarctica
MSNBC
al Gore
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Aiken Stanndam
Ellen Priest
Jeromy Way
Horace Walpole, 4Th Earl of
Orford
Editorial
Transparency
Michael Butler
Department of Energy and Nuclear Industry
Carolina Public Relations Group
Mbutler
Carolinaprgroup
Butler
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