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Good news blows in about wind coverage
Signs point to the emergence of a promising new trend -- less-expensive wind coverage for coastal property owners.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Trolley service better than a parking garage
As Coligny parking is addressed, providing free trolley service during the summer between the new USCB campus and the Coligny area should be considered as an alternative to a parking garage. A parking garage would see little use except during the summer when USCB will have limited activity. One need...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
County Council right to nix sales tax proposal
Kudos to the Island Packet editorial board, Beaufort County Council member Rick Caporale and his fellow council members who opposed putting the 1 percent sales tax increase before voters.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Another month passes, another Obama scandal
Crime and corruption have been a staple of Central American life for decades. During most of the last decade, an average of 4,000 unaccompanied minors have entered the U.S. illegally across our southern border. But after Obama announced in 2012 that immigrants who entered the country illegally as...
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DAVID LAUDERDALE
Column: Gadget that costs $59.95 reforms health care, one step at a time
The Fitbit is driving a successful new wellness program at the Volunteers in Medicine Clinic on Hilton Head Island.
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OPINION COLUMNISTS
Obamacare will have another date with the Supreme Court
The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune on Wednesday, July 23:
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OPINION COLUMNISTS
Shootdown further reveals NATO weakness
The ongoing crisis in Ukraine has claimed yet another casualty: the NATO alliance.
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OPINION COLUMNISTS
Ann McFeatters: Historians will recall our leaders' inaction
WASHINGTON - When historians look back on 2014, they will note not just how flagrantly Vladimir Putin disregarded international law or how stubbornly Gaza and Israel kept firing missiles at each other. They will also be puzzled at how poorly the United States handled its economy.
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OPINION COLUMNISTS
Doyle McManus: A turning point in Ukraine?
It's neither pleasant nor polite to say it, but the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 may have been the best thing to happen to President Barack Obama's policy on Ukraine in weeks.
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OPINION COLUMNISTS
RedBlueAmerica: Is parenting being criminalized in America?
Debra Harrell was arrested recently after the McDonald's employee let her daughter spend the day playing in a nearby park while she worked her shift. The South Carolina woman says her daughter had a cell phone in case of danger, and critics say that children once were given the independence to spend...
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OPINION COLUMNISTS
Dodd-Frank: an unfinished failure
This month marks the 45th anniversary of man landing on the moon, and the fourth anniversary of the signing of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The two events couldn't be more different.
