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Voters should say no to raising local sales tax
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Death penalty unlikely to curb criminal activity
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Carl Hiaasen: Florida's IQ exam fails test of justice
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Drivers fail to show caution at crosswalks
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Family court system too collegial for justice
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We've all become too politically correct
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Simple solution exists for frontage road issue
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Doyle McManus: Obama and the diplomacy pendulum
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Dan K. Thomasson: Eliot Ness's credentials are untouchable
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Women have come a long way, but have far to go
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A bailout for Ukrainians, by Ukrainians?
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Cinco de Mayo � a truly Mexican American holiday
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"Flipping" classrooms might work in county
It's yet to be seen if "flipping" classrooms will yield better results for students, but we believe it's worth a try, particularly in Beaufort County.
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Bluffton is perfect just the way it is now
My dear Bluffton friends, please be wary of this talk about branding the town and its supposed ability to pull in more business, more citizens, more tourists, and, in my opinion, more crime, more traffic and more unattractive store fronts ad ...
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Impeach Gov. Haley for bad money choices
Two items appeared in the March 5 paper on page 4A that showed the incompetence of Gov. Nikki Haley. In the first, she requests a federal government handout for disaster relief for the February storm in South Carolina. In the second article...
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Opinion
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OPINION COLUMNISTS
New nightclub dress code proves that fur is out
Unless you follow fashion news, you may have missed a recent story out of the United Kingdom. Mahiki, a London hotspot popular with celebrities and young royals, announced that it is permanently banning fur. The landmark dress code sends a strong message to the city's glitterati: It doesn't matter...
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OPINION COLUMNISTS
Energy � Russia's Achilles' heel
Russian President Vladimir Putin is gambling in the Crimea that the United States and Europe will prove incapable of any effective response. Certainly, there is no appetite in the United States or Europe for a military engagement. And Putin is not greatly concerned about the largely rhetorical threats...
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OPINION COLUMNISTS
China's unrest: Beijing still fails to deal with ethnic minorities
The following editorial appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Friday, March 7:
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OPINION COLUMNISTS
Despair in the ranks: The military seeks to understand soldier suicides
The following editorial appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Friday, March 7:
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OPINION COLUMNISTS
Supreme Court, don't tread on small investors
The following editorial appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Friday, March 7:
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UNTAMED LOWCOUNTRY
Voice for the Lowcountry birds sings sad song
As Barry Lowes steps down from the board of the Hilton Head Island Audubon Society after 30 years of carefully watching bird life in paradise, he outlines a lot of problems, and solutions.
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OPINION COLUMNISTS
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Laughter and grief belong together
Eighty-three-year old Ron Kilmartin was in a hospice, dying of lung cancer. His daughter was at his bedside, cracking jokes about it. Here's one:
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EDITORIALS
Public officials must first show need for tax increase
Elected officials across Beaufort County are in a rush to get a proposal on the November ballot to raise the sales tax by one percent. The only seeming sticking point: how to spend the new money should voters approve the measure.
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EDITORIALS
Federal flood bill aims to help underwater S.C.
We agree with a bipartisan majority of the U.S. House that a 2012 bill to overhaul and keep solvent the federal flood insurance program went too far and wreaked havoc on homeowners in flood-prone areas including in South Carolina.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
TIF proposal based on flimsy rationale
What more can Hilton Head Mayor Drew Laughlin and Town Council do to disadvantage local taxpayers? They propose spending tax increment funds (TIF) so the University of South Carolina Beaufort (USCB) can build its hospitality department on the island rather than USCB building it on their campus...
