Editorial urges override of cigarette tax veto in South Carolina
The piece argues Gov. Mark Sanford will veto a 50 cent per pack cigarette tax increase and urges a two thirds legislative override. Proceeds would fund health programs, smoking cessation, and cancer research, with a focus on deterring youth smoking and improving public health. Aiken County lawmakers are urged to lead.
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Mark Sanford
S.C. House
Senate
Aiken County
South Carolina
Supreme Court closes front entrance for security reasons
The Supreme Court will stop using the marble steps and front doors with Equal Justice Under Law. Visitors must report to a central side checkpoint. Justices Breyer and Ginsburg criticized the move as symbolic access being lost.
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Equal Justice
Stephen Breyer
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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John Roberts
Anthony Kennedy
Aiken Standard staff contact details and editorial roles
Listing of key staff at the Aiken Standard including publisher editor news director production director and other department heads with email addresses and department titles.
Call for modern schools run like Sheriff's Office leadership
Bernard K. Snipes of Aiken urges adoption of state-of-the-art schools with centralized leadership. He contrasts a lean sheriff department to an education system he panels as bloated with area superintendents, calling for strong unified governance and credible standards to attract industry and growth.
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Hunt
Sheriff's Department
Bernard K. Snipes
Aiken
Aiken High Article Urges Bond Vote for New Facility
A student at Aiken High argues for approving a bond referendum to rebuild or remodel aging facilities on Rutland Drive. The piece notes outdated classrooms, cramped hallways, and insufficient labs, urging modernization for about 1,600 students and 21st century learning.
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Aiken
Aiken High
Mary Jackson
Letters to the Editor Instructions From Aiken Standard
Readers are invited to send opinions on issues of concern to the Aiken Standard. Email letters to letters aikenstandard com or mail to Letters to the Editor Aiken Standard Box 456 Aiken SC 29802 or fax to 648 6052.
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Aiken
S.C
Aikenstandard
Faith and morality shape American law through history
A reader argues that belief in a biblical moral framework underpins U S law and governance. The letter cites the founding fathers creation of a state under higher authority, a shift in legal education in the late 1800s, and calls for a fixed moral constant. It references Lincoln's 1863 National Day of Prayer and Solzhenitsyn's Templeton Lecture to emphasize forgetting God as a root cause of revolutions. Deborah Holtzscheiter
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Supreme Court
Europe
Abraham Lincoln
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Russia
Templeton
Deborah Holtzscheiter
Aiken
County taxes belong to government not charity groups
A letter from a resident asserts that county taxes should fund county operations and not charitable agencies. The writer thanks Aiken County Council for using tax money appropriately and criticizes charities receiving public funds, offering to donate personally if needed.
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Aiken County
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