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Earlier Editorials
Don't let session end without cigarette tax hike
The S.C. General Assembly should not let another year go by without increasing the state's lowest in the country cigarette tax. (full story)
Buffer replanting a start, but fines in order, too
Bluffton officials and developer University Investments finally have a replanting plan to repair a buffer between the company's property and Rose Hill Plantation. (full story)
Make sure projects lure high-paying jobs to county
Beaufort County Council's vote to designate Buckwalter Place a multicounty industrial park sets up the framework officials hope to use to attract higher-paying jobs to Beaufort County. (full story)
Settlement offers county little at Pinckney Point
Beaufort County Council's decision not to settle a Pinckney Point road dispute and instead let the courts decide the issue was a good one. (full story)
With election behind it, district's real work starts
The Beaufort County School District squeaked by with a razor thin margin of victory for its $163 million building plan, and they should treat it as the close call it was. (full story)
Let's first look to nature for water quality solutions
Local officials grappling with the issue of how to protect water quality in our creeks and rivers should keep this central tenet in mind: Mother Nature knows best. (full story)
House runs off road on driver cell phone use
So much for discouraging young and inexperienced drivers from talking on cell phones or texting their friends while driving. (full story)
Ethics Commission uses tortured logic in decision
Let's set aside whether or not Beaufort Mayor Bill Rauch sought support from a former political opponent in exchange for Rauch's vote to annex the 1,000-acre McLeod Farm tract into the city of Beaufort. (full story)
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