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We spread Steve last week.
September 19, 2014
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Glenn
Tucker
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Columns
WASHINGTON -- We want to move out. We want to own our home. We want to marry. We want to work.
September 19, 2014
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By Catherine Rampell
Washington Post Writers Group
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Columns
It sure has felt good to have some cooler days lately. After a long, hot summer, it's nice to know the more pleasant breeze of a pre-autumn day. I have heard many people say similar things in the past week or two, and then there's usually also a follow-up comment about how it won't be long until we're complaining about how cold it is or there's snow and ice on the roads. All true.
September 19, 2014
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Gary
Phillips
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Columns
Hot, hot, hot! We're on the second day of 99 degrees-plus-the-heat-index weather. I'm on my wide front porch on the shady side of the house with a woven Palmetto frond fan in my hand. Back and forth, waving steadily. It helps a little -- fanning my sweat glistened cheeks and neck. The ladies a century ago would have said they were "glowing." They used these fans too -- in fact my older friend bought dozens of them for her daughter's summer wedding at Salem Black River Presbyterian years ago -- before they put in air conditioning. She gave me this ...
September 19, 2014
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By Katherine Richardson
C-I contributing columnist
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Columns
Music has the power to influence. It has the power to evoke deep thoughts, which ultimately lead to a flow of emotions and feelings. Driving paired with music seems to increase that flow of emotions. Maybe it is the sometimes calm rhythmic movement that the steady turn of the wheels creates that appeal to the mind and body. I make a 45 to 50 minute drive to and from work five days a week, so I get plenty of time to daydream, think and devise plans of action for any situation that is heavy on my mind. No one is ...
September 17, 2014
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Simone T.
Owens
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Columns
Though the calendar has now been flipped to the month of September and autumn is right around the corner, here in South Carolina it is still very much summer according to the thermometer. Days are getting shorter, but lower temperatures don't usually make it to South Carolina to signal the end of summer until well into October. Birds have begun their annual migrations south, but the heat and humidity that still lingers continues to keep snakes very active. Being exothermic, or cold-blooded as I was taught in elementary school, snakes take environmental warmth and warm themselves to activate processes ...
September 17, 2014
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Josh Arrants
C-I contributing columnist
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Columns
WASHINGTON -- As a South Carolinian, it befalls me to examine the peculiarities afflicting our former governor and now-congressman Mark Sanford, who, contrary to decorum and taste, continues to demand attention.
September 17, 2014
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By Kathleen Parker
Washington Post Writers Group
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Columns
Back when I was working on my master's degree, a professor in an administration class I was taking told us that if we didn't observe and understand what was going on around us politically, we wouldn't be effective administrators. I remember wondering what politics had to do with working with students, but I was young and naïve back then. What I have learned since then is that professor was 100 percent right.
September 15, 2014
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KCSD Superintendent Dr. Frank Morgan
C-I contributing columnist
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Columns
Last week, I called for going after ISIL (or ISIS or IS, the Islamic State as it wants to call itself now), in full force. Admittedly, I wasn't very specific about that. Some may have thought I meant "boots on the ground," as opposed to only the air strikes the U.S. has already participated in.
September 15, 2014
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Columns
When business called Tink back to Los Angeles, he decided to take the opportunity to have his annual check-up. When it ended, he called home.
September 15, 2014
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By Ronda Rich
www.rondarich.com
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Columns
Around this time of year I get the hankering to head for the hills -- the North Carolina mountains, actually -- and this year the itch is coming on pretty heavily.
September 15, 2014
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By Jim Tatum
Summerville Journal Scene reporter
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Columns
Years ago, Holiday Inn had a slogan: "The best surprise is no surprise at all."
September 12, 2014
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Glenn
Tucker
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Columns
You've heard of grade inflation? Welcome to the world of degree inflation.
September 12, 2014
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By Catherine Rampell
Washington Post Writers Group
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Columns
"No day shall erase you from the memory of time." - Virgil
September 12, 2014
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Paula
Joseph
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Columns
It's been said, with some degree of accuracy, the newspaper business is dying. At the Chronicle-Independent we're inclined to disagree with that, at least when it comes to this paper, and I'll tell you why. Let me assure you, it's not because it's where we work and where our paychecks come from, although we do honestly appreciate it. It's because we simply are the only source our readers have for the news that really matters to them on a local, personal level.
September 12, 2014
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Gary
Phillips
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Columns
