Columbia City Council meets Sept. 5, 2007
By John Temple Ligon Temple@TheColumbiaStar.com
      Roll call City council convened Wednesday morning, Sept. 5, at 9 am. All council members were present: Daniel Rickenmann, Sam Davis, E.W. Cromartie, Mayor Bob Coble, Anne Sinclair, Tameika Isaac Devine, and Kirkman Finlay III.
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City Council steps in quicksand again
By Warner M.Warner@TheColumMboinatSgtaorm.coemry
      Columbia City Council is once again trying its hand at urban planning. Not content with their past failures - Air South, CCI/Riverfront, and the Convention Hotel - our city fathers (and mothers) have hired a consultant with $200,000 of our tax dollars to tell council how to bring retailers to do...
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Have you no decency?
Contributed by a reader
      Ralph Waldo Emerson once said that "Men are respectable only as they respect." If that is to be the measure, The State newspaper has invited very little respect for an invasive story it ran last weekend about the tragic fire in Charleston resulting in the loss of nine firefighters.
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Cayce City Council meets Sept. 4, 2007
By Kristin Lavender kblavender@gmail.com
      Roll Call The September 4, 2007 Cayce City Council meeting was called to order at 6:00 pm by Mayor Avery Wilkerson. Jumper led the Council in the Invocation and then Wilkerson led in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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Electric cars are the answer
By Albert L. Reid
      I read with great interest the story by John Temple Ligon August 3, 2007, "Pollution, free three. Every American citizen who is concerned about the health and survival of the U.S. and the global environmental community should view the DVD or video Who Killed the Electric Car. Present day automobil...
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