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(10/18/11 6:03am)
Three gnarly skaters climbed up Sumter Street and boarded down at audacious speeds, performing exhilarating slides and dance moves. These daredevils and Columbia natives, Gene Wrightson, Alex Dingman and Ted Aslund, are the core of the city’s professional longboarding team.
(10/05/11 6:11am)
In the ‘80s John Kenneth Galbraith said “Trickle-down economics: the less-than-elegant metaphor that if one feeds the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows” to mock the Republican’s decrease in tax rates on the rich from 70 percent to 28 percent. The Democrats have been trying to raise it ever since, having brought the tax rate on the wealthiest Americans back to about 40 percent at present.
(09/27/11 6:52am)
All political ideologies agree that the first obligation of government is the safety of its citizens. Police and firefighters are excellent examples.
(09/20/11 6:55am)
Despite their illegality, current television, music and movies imply smoking pot and underage drinking are acceptable, harboring an underground culture that acts in opposition to the law.
(09/12/11 5:35am)
Local clinic helps small but growing corps of Midlands paddleboarders master sport
(09/06/11 7:09am)
The Carolina Service Council (CSC) and the Residence Hall Association (RHA) donated $6,384 to the Red Cross on Friday to support Japan, a country still reeling from the earthquake and tsunami last March.
(08/31/11 7:12am)
Take the new, highly-acclaimed "green dorm," West Quad, which boasts using 45% less energy and 20% less water, according to USC's website. This attacks the problem from the wrong direction because the real savings must come from changes in our behavior. This shouldn't come as a surprise: according to Terrapass.com, the average dorm room produces 3.3 tons of carbon dioxide per year mainly from laptops, mini-fridges, microwaves and leather shoes, of all things. And how many occupants don't have a 20-pack of plastic water bottles sitting on their floor? All of that energy is used to transport water that is the same as the water that comes from the bathroom tap.
(08/30/11 6:06am)
Salty’s Board Shop, located across from Chick-fil-A in Five Points, is more than a primo retailer; it is the headquarters of Columbia’s boarder culture.