Langley Pond shows progress as sediment testing begins
Editorial notes Langley Pond in Aiken County will start sediment testing by Aiken County and the SCDHEC. Water quality is not in question, with decades of cleanup highlighting citizens groups like the Aiken County Alliance for Fair Employment. The piece credits nature and policy for restoring the 250 acre site once damaged by industrial waste and warns to watch results.
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Aiken County
S.C
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Horse Creek
EPA
Aiken County Alliance For Fair Employment
Alliance
Langley Pond
Atlanta
Mother Nature
ER doctors praised as top in ARMC in farewell
A physician with forty years in the GSRA praises the ARMC ER team led by Doc Martin and his crew. He cites experience from Tripler and Eisenhower hospitals and notes the ER staff are equal to any he has encountered abroad. He thanks them for twenty years of service to the Aiken community.
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GSRA
Aikén Regional Medical Centers
ARMC
Tripler Army Medical Center
Hawaii
Eisenhower Army Hospital
Fort Gordon
Doc Martin
Aiken
What Fox News is Not A Polemic on a News Network
Leonard Pitts Jr argues Fox News is not a true news organization despite its name. He cites Pew data showing limited coverage of the Murdoch phone-hacking scandal and accuses Fox of bias and sensationalism. Pitts defends professional standards by citing CBS NPR and NYT corrections as examples. He calls Fox a noisemaker and a distributor of misinformation.
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Fox News
Fox
Republican Party
Rupert Murdoch
Murdoch
News of the World
Congress
U.K
Pew Research Center
Project For
Fox “News
CBS News
George W. Bush
Texas Air National Guard
CBS
Jayson Blair
New York Times
NPR
America
Nana
Leonard Pitts Jr
The
Miami Herald
Obama says debt crisis frames stalled government action
In a prime-time address President Obama warned of a looming default as Congress remains gridlocked over measures to avert Aug. 2. The speech framed the debt crisis as a test of national leadership amid partisan stalemate.
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Barack Obama
Congress
Voters weigh blame as debt ceiling talks stall
After six months of fighting over raising the debt limit nothing near agreement exists. Republicans resist revenue increases and tax cuts for the wealthy while Democrats defend entitlements. Obama seeks some entitlement changes plus revenue. Public opinion appears to favor revenue.
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Obama
Congress
Reagan
George W. Bush
Compassionate ER Doctors of Aiken Regional Praise
Dr. Gerhard Kraske of Madison Wisconsin commends the Aiken Regional Medical Centers emergency department physicians for their compassion and competence based on five years of work with five hospital affiliated EDs. He recalls daily interactions with patients and laments the potential loss of these community leaders and their families.
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Aiken
Gerhard Kraske
Internal Medicine
Madison, Wis
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Letitia Jefferson Jefferson
Laura Tiedman
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Kevin Mawae
NFL
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