Aiken Standard Masthead Details and Leadership
The Aiken Standard lists its founding year 1867 and identifies key staff including Publisher Scott B. Hunter Executive Editor Melissa Hanna Advertising Director Dee Taylor Business Manager Terri Cheek Circulation Manager Laura Tideman Classified Advertising Manager Letitia Jefferson Production Director Ronnie Butler.
Society Shapes Man Not the Other Way Around
Quote attributed to Margaret Fuller states that humanity precedes society and that institutions must serve individual improvement. It underscores reformist belief in personal growth as the measure of social good.
Aiken Vet Education Boot Camp Aims to Preserve GI Benefits
Editorial lauds the A-VET Boot Camp a seven week program funded by the Wounded Warrior Project at Aiken Technical College and USC Aiken. It offers free help in math and English to post 9 11 veterans to avoid depleting GI Bill funds and improve college readiness.
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Aiken
Aiken Technical College
USC Aiken
Augusta/Aiken
Wounded Warrior Project
Aiken Tech
Aiken County
Snowden should come home despite unsettled fate
Leonard Pitts Jr argues Snowden avoided civil disobedience by staying away from a home to face charges, contrasting Gandhi King Mandela and Ellsberg. He contends returning would offer a worse option than remaining abroad, framing the moral dilemma amid asylum talks and questions of loyalty to law.
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Mohandas Gandhi
Veranda Central
Martin Luther King Jr
Birmingham
Nelson Mandela
Robben Island
Edward Snowden
Venezuela
Snowden
U.S
Moscow
Bolivia
Nicaragua
China
Bernard Lafayette
Lafayette
Daniel Ellsberg
Ellsberg
Pentagon
Washington Post
State ethics reform faces long road ahead in Senate
Cindi Ross Scoppe argues the 2013 ethics bill, though improved over the House version, is not enough. She notes calls for an independent ethics commission and stricter reporting, audits, and penalties, while lawmakers resist independent investigations. A panel may draft a Senate-friendly approach, but partisan opposition and constitutional questions linger.
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Senate
House
Ethics
Senate Ethics Committees
John Courson
Antee
Brad Hutto
Darrell Jackson
Gerald Malloy
Luke Rankin
Courson
Ethics Commission
Supreme Court
High Court
Cindi Ross Scoppe
Columbia
Letter to the Editor on Christian nation foundations
Jean A. Kling of Aiken thanks Hobby Lobby for reprinting founding fathers quotes in the Aiken Standard. She defends the view that the United States was founded as a Christian nation and urges Christians and Jews to loudly affirm faith and patriotism amid turbulent times.
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Hobby Lobby
Aiken Standard
God
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