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Pres. Trump is coming for a private reception for Gov McMasters but the public may get to see him either at the airport arrival in Greenville or the Embassy Suites Hotel. Ticketed event. I missed his last trip way back during the campaign at the Anderson Convention Center but going this time.

Perhaps the greatest World Series game of all time. No DH, no batting gloves, no helmets. Just pure baseball. Today marks the anniversary. David vs Goliath is a valid comparison. Worth watching as this is the only recorded film. Bing Crosby, who was part owner of the Bucs, had this recorded privately and it was found after his death in storage.

Republicans offered a concise tutorial on the good, the bad and the ugly last week. When they were good, they were, oh, so very good. When they were bad, they were embarrassingly so. And when they were ugly, they were repulsive. First, the good. One of the stupidest things Republicans did four years ago was to allow a sunset provision in legislation that phased out the estate tax through 2010; The wacky Orwellians that Democrats are was put into stark perspective by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. She called the effort to stop milking the dead the "reverse of Robin...

Posted on Tue, Jun. 29, 2004 Sumter furniture plant to close doors Associated Press SUMTER, S.C. - Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Co. Inc. plans to close its Sumter manufacturing facility, putting more than 350 employees out of work. Vaughan-Bassett President and CEO John D. Bassett III and his son, Executive Vice President Wyatt Bassett, on Monday delivered the news in person to employees, saying the closure is a result of furniture being imported from China. The Bassetts say their industry has been flooded by a deluge of furniture that China is unloading on the American market below cost, which forces domestic manufacturers...

Beasley, DeMint attack each other in GOP Senate debate JENNIFER HOLLAND Associated Press CONWAY, S.C. - Former Gov. David Beasley and U.S. Rep. Jim DeMint lashed out at each other's character and political records Sunday night in the final televised debate in the race for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate. With voters returning to the polls Tuesday, there wasn't time to be nice. The two seasoned politicians sat across from each other and sparred about the recent barrage of negative campaign ads and issues such as the federal deficit, health care and trade - the biggest difference between the...

Posted on Sun, Jun. 13, 2004 DeMint has first negative ad of runoff By AARON GOULD SHEININ Staff Writer The first negative ad of the Republican U.S. Senate runoff campaign hit the airwaves Saturday, a spot that features two older gents arguing whether David Beasley is a “flip-flopper” or merely “wishy-washy.” The ad, by the campaign of U.S. Rep. Jim DeMint, attacks Beasley over his changing positions on the Confederate flag and state lottery while he was governor from 1995-99. “I don’t get this Beasley fella,” one man says to his friend. “He was against moving the flag; he’s for...

Jun 11, 2004 Candidate Beasley tours Hartsville plant, talks jobs By JIM NEWMAN Morning News HARTSVILLE -- Former Governor and U.S. Senate candidate David Beasley paid a visit to an industry in Hartsville on Thursday to see firsthand an example of the positive job growth he would like to see throughout the Pee Dee and South Carolina. JBE Inc. is a family-owned business that manufactures personal watercraft as well as the headlight and taillight sub-assemblies for Honda of South Carolina Manufacturing Inc. in Timmonsville. Beasley, who finished first in the Republican Senate primary Tuesday and will face U.S. Rep. Jim...

Senate drops seat-belt bill Lawmakers give up on controversial measure so they can move on to other legislation By JENNIFER TALHELM Staff Writer Senators killed a proposed tougher seat-belt law Wednesday, finally giving in to weeks of filibustering and allowing the Senate to turn to other matters. Lawmakers voted 23-21 to set aside a bill that would allow police to stop adult drivers who aren’t wearing seat belts. The vote ended a two-month-long filibuster led by Senate President Pro Tem Glenn McConnell, R-Charleston, who opposed the bill. Seat-belt bill opponents called the vote a victory. The bill’s supporters were dismayed....

Debating guns DetailsThe duo's duel -- neither will be packing -- is scheduled Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. in Room 301 of the Duquesne Law School. Sponsored by Duquesne's Federalist Society, the debate -- "Guns: Self-defense or Public Health Crisis?" -- is open to the public. By Bill Steigerwald TRIBUNE-REVIEW Saturday, April 17, 2004 Nathaniel Glosser of Highland Park is a brave liberal. He's not a professional advocate or a think tank public policy guru. But the anti-gun advocate has agreed to take on John Lott, one of the country's premier gun experts, in a Duquesne University debate next week on...

Opening Doors for Muslim Families While the dream of homeownership remains one of the core values of American society, there's a new and growing segment of our society for which expanding homeownership will take innovative thinking. Observant Muslims are forbidden by religious law to pay interest. As a result, financing homes for these families presents a challenge to the mortgage industry. Homeownership is one of the primary methods by which American families accumulate wealth. Over 68% of American families own their own homes. The pride of owning a home and the opportunity to build wealth through appreciation and federal tax...

<p>The National Rifle Association will have its annual convention at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in April.</p> <p>It's the first time the NRA has selected Pittsburgh for its annual convention.</p> <p>The association selected Pittsburgh because it has a large concentration of members within driving distance of the city, spokeswoman Kelly Hobbs said.</p>

Posted on Tue, Aug. 19, 2003 Sonoco to cut jobs, close plants Loss of high-paying jobs at headquarters to hit Hartsville especially hard By JIM DuPLESSIS Staff Writer Sonoco Products Co. said it would cut 130 of Darlington County's best-paying jobs within six weeks and is planning 2,000 more job cuts by the end of 2004, most of them at U.S. and European plants. The Hartsville-based packaging manufacturer, hoping to boost profits in a manufacturing recession with no end in sight, on Monday announced a two-stage cutback: • By Sept. 30, it will lay off 340 sales and administrative jobs,...

<p>Roy Williams proudly sported his new Carolina Blue while visiting the Five-Star Basketball Camp at Robert Morris University on Thursday, but expressed contempt for the way the Atlantic Coast Conference expanded by luring Miami and Virginia Tech from the Big East Conference. "It was a fiasco," Williams said. "We handled that about as poorly it could possibly be handled. I think in some ways it made the ACC look bad. I think it made college athletics look bad.</p>

Posted on Mon, Jul. 14, 2003 Second-quarter results confirm stocks' appeal Rebound shows long-term strategy is best for investors By JEFF BROWN Knight Ridder Newspapers Gee, this is like waking up to find we're back in ‘.‘.‘. well, the '90s. When the quarter ended June 30, stock market investors learned they had tallied the best single-quarter results since 1998. The Standard & Poor's 500 index gained slightly less than 15 percent. For the year, the index was up 11.4 percent. That's not bad, given that most experts say investors will be lucky to make 6 or 7 percent a year...

Back for the umpteenth time in U.S. Tax Court: Dart Container Corp., the Mason, Mich. Styrofoam cup maker owned by brothers Kenneth B. and Robert C. Dart, who gave up citizenship and live abroad. This case: The Internal Revenue Service says Dart owes $19 million more in 1998 and 1999 taxes, primarily for wrongly deducting $45 million in "interest" payments, related to division of the family business in 1986 to settle a lawsuit by feuding sibling Thomas J. Dart. Dart Container says it's owed a $10 million refund. Last year Dart entities paid $26 million in taxes--from 1994. --J.N. and...

Posted on Fri, Jul. 11, 2003 Accounting majors juggle job offers New regulations after past scandals add up to increased demand for graduates By R. KEVIN DIETRICH Staff Writer USC accounting student Kristie Cross faces another six months of classes before she receives her master's degree, but she's already locked up a good job. Cross, 24, will join accounting firm Grant Thornton in Columbia next year. She's just one of many USC accounting students who've already landed jobs, months before they've finished school. "It seems like firms are hiring more people now, in response to changes within the business world,"...

Bill in Congress would curb L-1 visa use for foreign workers A congressman calls the L-1 a "back door to cheap labor" By PATRICK THIBODEAU Content Type: Story Source: Computerworld WASHINGTON -- Legislation was introduced in Congress this week that would set curbs on the use of the L-1 visa, a controversial visa program that, like the H-1B visa, allows U.S. companies to bring in foreign workers. The L-1 visa enables companies with subsidiaries abroad to transfer to the U.S. from other companies executives or workers with specialized skills. But critics contend that foreign outsourcing firms use it to import...

<p>A wrong turn led a truck of illegal immigrants into a seat belt awareness checkpoint in Greensburg on Monday, but after an hour-long detainment, police let them go.</p> <p>A police officer handing out "Click It or Ticket" flyers to drivers on North Main Street near Cabin Hill Drive noticed two men, later determined to be Mexican, sitting up front in the truck were not wearing seat belts. They were told to pull over.</p>

Sanford cuts ribbon to Honda expansion Associated Press TIMMONSVILLE, S.C. -Honda of South Carolina Manufacturing Inc. began full production at its newest plant as Gov. Mark Sanford cut the ribbon to its new personal watercraft line Friday. The company hired 150 more workers to man the new 88,000-square foot expansion that will produce the AquaTrax line. Sanford and company officials sampled the first models from the assembly line in a testing tank,The (Florence) Morning News reported. "Six years ago, we believed that the people from this community would make great Honda associates," said Koichi Kondo, senior executive vice president at...

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