Governor Sanford lays out four year plan and five focus areas
In his inaugural address Governor Mark Sanford outlines the path for South Carolina over the next four years. He calls for collective effort, a focused vision, persistence, sacrifice, and bold steps to balance the budget and address education, higher education, taxation, state restructuring, and quality of life while urging shared power with the General Assembly and cautioning that meaningful change will be hard and gradual.
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State Grocenment
Aitken Standard Names Editorial and Production Leaders
Publisher Scott B. Hunter and Advertising Director Jeffrey B. Wallace lead the Aitken Standard with Art Zappa Ellen C. Priest overseeing writing and editing. Timothy E. O Briant serves as Production Director, Phillip Yates as Circulation Director, and Scot Newcom Systems manages Letitia Jefferson.
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Timothy E. O'Briant
Phillip Yates
Scot Newcom
Por tion Distortion and the Supersize Trend
Debbie Green is the only person I know who lost weight over the holidays by limiting treats and exercising. The piece cites Shannon Brownlee on portion distortion, tracing it to fast food marketing and Elliott Bloom in 1983. It explains larger portions boost profits, cites McDonald’s 64 ounce soda pricing, and notes legal and health fallout.
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New American Foundation
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7-Eleven
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McDonald's
Council Praised for Wetzel Historic Commission Nomination
A reader commends the City Council for approving Jack Wetzel to the Historic Preservation Commission. The letter lauds his community efforts with the Aiken Historic Foundation, describes him as caring for the town, and praises Bill McKay for urging bipartisanship to benefit the community of All American City.
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Jack Wetzel
Historic Preservation Commission
Whiskey Road
Aiken
Bill McKay
Jack
All America
Homeland Security no answer for INS incompetence
Six months after the 9 11 tragedy INS personnel allegedly sent visas to dead hijackers and did not issue walking papers. The INS now sits within Homeland Security, a huge bureaucratic entity that could shield future ineptitude and widen border openings to illegal entrants.
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Letters to Editor Policy for Aiken Standard
Letter submission details outline how readers may address letters to the editor at the Aiken Standard. It provides mailing address P O Box 456 Aiken South Carolina 29802 email swallace at aikenstandard.com and fax 803 648 6062 for submissions.
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Bush calls to end racial boxes on college forms
The piece argues to remove race boxes from applications citing President Bush and Jeb Bush. It links past and proposed programs to race conscious policies, highlighting Ward Connerly and the Racial Privacy Initiative as a path to ban racial classifications in public life and admissions.
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Reno Justice Department
Google
Sharon Taxman
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Deval Patrick
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Randy Peck
Adarand
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Supreme Court
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