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Open minds needed on parking garage issue
If downtown Beaufort needs a parking garage -- or if its residents and business owners want one -- the Port Republic Square block recently purchased by the Beaufort Inn seems like the best place to put it.
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History is set to repeat itself
In September of 1938, Neville Chamberlain, the prime minister of Great Britain met with Adolph Hitler in Munich, Germany. They signed The Munich Agreement, a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia. When he returned to England, he held up a piece of paper...
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Biden has it wrong on single mothers
Vice President Joe Biden's recent comment that Obamacare will give single moms the opportunity to quit their current jobs (jobs he believes they are in only to have health care) and become stay-at home-moms, raising their children. Unless he is totally out of touch with reality, he must also be proposing...
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Why no option to not raise sales tax?
Let me see if I have this right: Voters will be given the option of raising the sales taxes. Option 1 raises sales tax 1 percent for municipalities with some abatement of property tax. Option 2 resuscitates an expiring 1 percent sales tax, targeting capital projects. Since our leaders...
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Reduction in the military budget weakens nation
The Secretary of Defense has proposed to cut the military budget to pre-World War II levels. These reductions will result in less manpower and a push back in training, equipment and the readiness level necessary to meet mission requirements -- much like what occurred when military forces...
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DAVID LAUDERDALE
Life in the fast lane getting edgy around Bluffton
The newly-widened U.S. 278 throws life into a new gear around Bluffton, which was once a slow Lowcountry village and proud of it.
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OPINION COLUMNISTS
Markos Kounalakis: On energy, Russia has Europe over the barrel
How much does the Russian military intervention in Ukraine "cost" the Kremlin? Both President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry have made clear that "there will be costs" to Russia, but so far, there only seem to be benefits, subsidies and the promise of a higher financial return to...
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OPINION COLUMNISTS
RedBlueAmerica: Is Putin Outsmarting Obama in Ukraine crisis?
President Obama is facing perhaps the most difficult foreign policy challenge of his administration with the confrontation with Russian President Vladimir Putin over Ukraine and disputed territory in the Crimean peninsula.
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OPINION COLUMNISTS
Ann McFeatters: Putin and his soul are growing tiresome
It's hard to believe how much time we have spent in recent weeks musing about Russian President Vladimir Putin. And we still don't have a clue what his end game is.
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OPINION COLUMNISTS
If Hillary runs, polls say her gender won't matter
Repeat after us: The 2016 election is more than two and a half years away. Hillary Clinton may be a candidate. If she is, Benghazi or Bill Clinton may or may not be issues. Who could possibly know?
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OPINION COLUMNISTS
President's focus on young men of color should spur action across the country
The following editorial appeared in the Miami Herald on Wednesday, March 5:
